A review by peebee
Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham

5.0

Strange to see the phrases "There's a fella that knows his onions" "The ol' Soup and Fish" and "come in my face" in the same story. Weird how when the author isn't worried about going blue, the language from back then is all more or less the same as it is now. Although learning "poontang" precedes Vietnam was a bit of a surprise. Kind of sucks that our grandparents generation had all the same swear words, and used them, just not in public, but also didn't think awesome phrases like "wouldn't know whether to shit or spit nickels" were too corny to use. Sucks for us, I mean, I don't feel like going back and editing the previous sentence for clarity.