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From: The Independent - London | Date: June 17, 1996 | Copyright information

Drugs and the drug world are incapable of supporting Welsh's ambitions, hence his need to create ever more desperate and implausible horror scenarios, inflating this currency and devaluing its impact. Too many shortcuts are taken and his writing is now seriously repetitious (although this is perhaps an honest portrayal of drug culture). There is an element of voyeuristic fascination in many of Welsh's more hysterical admirers, for whom he chronicles a world of which they have no experience an...

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