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Title: the master misfires badly !
Review: While Jim Thompson is one of my favorite authors, even I must admit...The Alcoholics is absolute garbage! The characters have the depth of a thimble. The plot is so thin that it threatens not to exist. The writing is atrocious. It seems like Thompson wrote this over a rough weekend, or even worse...a dull one. The story gets insultingly stupid frequently. In all fairness, it should be pointed out that Thompson had ten books(that's not a misprint!) in 1953-1954. Included in that awesome number were the classics Bad Boy, A Hell Of A Woman, The Nothing Man & The Killer Inside Me had just come out the previous year(1952). So I guess you could say Thompson had a dud coming. Yeah, well...this is that dud. Any prolific writer is going to have his share of trash in the vaults.
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