This should be right up my alley and I was excited this was the book club read this month. However, with club tomorrow and I'm only 100 pages into, well-I'm not going to finish. I found the book slow, extremely detailed, and doesn't provided much to get me into or keep into the book. I'm might have ...
A book about both H. H. Holmes and the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 ought to stand or fall based on how well the author merges the two stories. It ought to, but Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City defies probability: it succeeds in spite of a conjunction that offers virtually nothing o...
I wish I had read this about 2 months ago. I would have used the free time on my week-and-a-half business trip to Chicago a lot differently.Both parts of this book had me completely captivated (the two main threads alternated throughout the book). I found the sections on the history of the World's...
An incredible book about Chicago's greatest achievement, as a group of dreamers gather to build the impossible.....and a madman creates a nightmare. Truly captures a feel of the time and place while proving that the razor's edge between genius and insanity is not a straight line. Highly recommended ...
I guessed when I read the introduction of this book that I might not like certain aspects of this telling. Oh how right I was!This book is a quick read--granted, I'm not finished yet (only about 1/4), but I didn't spend much time reading it either. The writing is smooth and it held my interest. It i...
This book really should have been divided into two... One about the Chicago World's Fair and one about Holmes. The two stories never really had much to do with the other besides the time period, therefore the switching back and forth was more irritating than anything. Still really liked both stories...
Some say that truth is stranger than fiction; while I don't know about that I can say that at times, such as in the reading of The Devil in the White City, truth is more compelling that fiction. Thanks to Hollywood and the crazy killers found throughout the history of fictional thrillers it is easy ...
Some say that truth is stranger than fiction; while I don't know about that I can say that at times, such as in the reading of The Devil in the White City, truth is more compelling that fiction. Thanks to Hollywood and the crazy killers found throughout the history of fictional thrillers it is easy ...
Some say that truth is stranger than fiction; while I don't know about that I can say that at times, such as in the reading of The Devil in the White City, truth is more compelling that fiction. Thanks to Hollywood and the crazy killers found throughout the history of fictional thrillers it is easy ...
So, there’s this scene in David Fincher's Zodiac in which Jake Gyllenhaal's character, Robert Graysmith, visits the home of someone he believes to be the famed Zodiac killer. As Graysmith ventures down in the suspect’s basement, there’s this sense of dread that’s instilled in the viewer as they won...
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