false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169386132m/40024.jpg 40024 35 The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times crime reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels. The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology - amassing a psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before . . . and will kill again before the hunt is over. Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its tarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences. 2266643 book 1994 The Alienist total:9733|5:3194|4:3905|3:1990|2:473|1:171| 9733 38677 12591 1045 5 7 false false Mon May 12 14:27:07 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 14:27:56 -0700 2008 5 4 false false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Jan 30 14:22:35 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 14:23:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 21 14:01:40 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 21 14:01:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 17:34:08 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 11:44:11 -0800 2008
It's also an interesting study of the culture of New York at the turn of the century, and a ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 17:13:51 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 20 13:18:33 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jan 24 08:56:29 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 09:03:15 -0800 2008 unfortunately, i also wanted a book that was well-written, and this did NOT fit the niche for that.
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I thought this book was gonna be soooooooo awesome, and I was just gonna love it sooooo much. Everyone loved this book, remember?? Plus it is about one of my favorite periods in American history, and parts of it take place in my beloved Bellevue Hospital (the old one that's a shel...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1995 Mon Jun 18 13:04:48 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 18 13:09:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 14:03:25 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 08 17:19:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Tue Jan 27 20:18:57 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 20:21:01 -0800 2009 5 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 15 11:56:09 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 05 14:53:12 -0800 2009 it took place in 189X nyc, and chronicled one of the first investigations of a serial killer. yes, yes, it was fiction, but whatever. it was really interesting to realize that the stuff we see on csi and nypd blue and what not was not always common think...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 07:23:42 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 07:29:59 -0800 2009
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This is my second trip through the book (apparently, my memory is the absolu...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 08:45:31 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 08:53:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 13:48:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 14:49:26 -0700 2009 1 The Alienist does a wonderful job imagining how early detectives did their work while painting a graphic picture of life at that time. I got deep satisfactio...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=40024