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The Great Big Book of Horrible Things by Matthew White

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Jan 25, 12

bookshelves: nonfiction, morbid
Read from January 15 to 25, 2012

This book had a good chance of being dry and rambling, given the subject matter, but the author's tone and way of explaining each event kept me reading. White does not pin down a single cause for all of the horrible things in his great big book, which I liked. It is a bad historian that does that; a good historian recognizes that the world doesn't function in terms of black and white.

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