This was a great reading. It's excellently researched, and amazingly written. I'm still kind of speechless. The author gives a good idea of the climate in England, Germany and Washington DC at the moment, the importance of the Lusitania, the facts that converged to allow the sinking of the her, who ...
note: I'm not doing reading it as of yet because I've got a really bad head cold so in case I don't get done with it in the time I'm posting this early. So much historical facts in it that I didn't even know about It pulls on everything, your very soul, heart and emotions Emotional,dramatic,powerful...
I really enjoyed this narrative nonfiction tale of Chicago's World Fair... but it wasn't what I was expecting. Given the title The Devil in the White City, I thought the book would focus much more on HH Holmes and his murderous castle. While that was certainly a prominent aspect of the book, it focu...
Dear god, this book dragged on. Very well-written, well-researched...just overkill on all the machinations of the 1893 Chicago World Fair. I was expecting more about the serial killer than the Fair, and it was opposite. Through the first 3 parts the chapters (for the most part alternating between th...
Wow, this is an amazing retelling of major events in history. It's told in such a way that that facts really come to life. It's half the making of a monumental public attraction and half inside the life of a serial killer.
Let me start by saying that I really enjoyed reading this book and it did hold my interest all the way through. But if a person, who never has read a non-fiction book before in his entire life wants to try this genre out, would ask me, if this is the book he should read, I would say no. There are ot...
Dead Wake wasn't quite as much of an attention grabber as Devil in the White City, but it is still a page turner. Larson's unique ability to interweave stories with stories is definitely a trait of his that will keep me coming back. Not to mention his books being incredibly well researched and put t...
I didn't love this book as much as the first novel I read by Larson. It seemed, somehow, full of shorter and choppier sentences, even though that's not truly the case given how long and explanatory some sections were. That was just the impression I came away with after reading a few chapters at a ti...
There have been many books written about the sinking of the Lusitania, but you've probably never read it in the manner presented by Larson. He gives voice (and flesh) to many of the souls who sailed on that last voyage in 1915. The events that led to the sinking were 'incredible', to say the least. ...
After sleeping away the unsettlement caused by finishing the book last night, I remembered to check my notes for the text I found interesting. -- "His presence had the perverse effect of affirming everything the passengers had been fearing since their departure from New York, in the way that a pri...
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