If you want to continue the World's Fair theme, Eiffel's Tower, which is about the Paris fair of 1889 is very good (I liked it a lot more than Devil in the White City), and I found it very entertaining as well.
There was another world's fair in the U.S. in '39 - at San Francisco - but I've never seen a book on it.
Huh, didn't know about the San Francisco one in '39!
I'll look for Eiffel's Tower, I read about some of that in Dawn of the Belle Epoque but it's been interesting learning just about the creation, building, and happenings at World's Fairs.
I believe the one in San Francisco/Oakland was called the "Golden Gate International Exposition."
Both of my sets of grandparents went to the New York fair in '39 - as did my father as a small boy. He and his parents took the train up from North Carolina - my mother's family lived in the area. (My father remembers the train, but not the fair!)
It sounded amazing. It fit in so nicely with other books I've reading recently, like The Wonderful Future that Never Was, which talks about the amazing creations and society that was suppose to be the future. And it was sad to the point of pathetic how much they tried to ram the idea of peace around the world down goer's throats...particularly considering what was to come. And he focused on Einstein a great deal more then I talked about but it couldn't fit that in unless the review grew by another paragraph or more, and it as due back basically as soon as I finished it.
The last one was in Shanghai (and my said it was amazing) and the next one seems to be in Dubai (at least i think i remember seeing it advertised there). I went to Expo2000 in Hannover. Not the most exciting place to visit but the exhibition was just awesome.
Yeah, we've been looking at what's coming up and whether any of them we can get to. I don't really expect it to be exciting...I really want to see the exhibitions and the pavilions from different countries.
The only one I've ever been to is the one at Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1982. The biggest attraction was the China pavilion. China sent the terracotta army, which had only recently been found and preserved (about 5 years earlier, I think).
My parents both went to the 1964 New York World's Fair, and enjoyed it.
Oh wow! I've seen a couple terracotta warriors but I want to go and see them at the grave so badly. I didn't know they were at the Knoxville World's Fair! I lived in Knoxville for awhile and the one thing I always remember is the Sunsphere, which was built for the Fair. The convention center and an outdoor theater is there now, as well as a park.
I'd be interested to find out! And glad I can be of service. ;P
It had been awhile since I last listened to audiobooks before this year and I'd forgotten how much I enjoy them. They do nothing for LL, so he bemusedly nods at the right places when I gush about one. I struggling with audiobooks because there are too many good one! And I don't have many more credits left! I'm almost positive I'm going to use one of my remaining ones for the new John Scalzi book Locked In. They're running a pre-order special that if you preorder one version, you can get the other free. It's the same book, just different editions with two narrators, one male and one female. The story sounds really interesting.
Locked In sounds interesting. Not something that I'd go for, I don't think, but I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts about it if you decide to get it. I wonder; is the narrative asexual, and that's why there are two different versions, one female/one male? So the reader can choose the narrative voice they want to hear? and if so, I wonder if the gender of the narrator will change the story at all...
The story is the same, it's about two police officers in a Sci-Fi world. One is a female whose been on the force awhile and the other is a rookie cop and he's just been assigned as her partner. So I think they will focus on each of the two characters, but the story is the same. I'll send you the info in a message; hold on.
There was another world's fair in the U.S. in '39 - at San Francisco - but I've never seen a book on it.
I'll look for Eiffel's Tower, I read about some of that in Dawn of the Belle Epoque but it's been interesting learning just about the creation, building, and happenings at World's Fairs.
Both of my sets of grandparents went to the New York fair in '39 - as did my father as a small boy. He and his parents took the train up from North Carolina - my mother's family lived in the area. (My father remembers the train, but not the fair!)
It sounded amazing. It fit in so nicely with other books I've reading recently, like The Wonderful Future that Never Was, which talks about the amazing creations and society that was suppose to be the future. And it was sad to the point of pathetic how much they tried to ram the idea of peace around the world down goer's throats...particularly considering what was to come. And he focused on Einstein a great deal more then I talked about but it couldn't fit that in unless the review grew by another paragraph or more, and it as due back basically as soon as I finished it.
My parents both went to the 1964 New York World's Fair, and enjoyed it.
I think my mom attended the 1933-34 World's Fair in Chicago. I'll have to ask her and if so, what it was like...
It had been awhile since I last listened to audiobooks before this year and I'd forgotten how much I enjoy them. They do nothing for LL, so he bemusedly nods at the right places when I gush about one. I struggling with audiobooks because there are too many good one! And I don't have many more credits left! I'm almost positive I'm going to use one of my remaining ones for the new John Scalzi book Locked In. They're running a pre-order special that if you preorder one version, you can get the other free. It's the same book, just different editions with two narrators, one male and one female. The story sounds really interesting.