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Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.
Rating: 4/5 storms that nearly destroy the world's fair
Format: Audiobook. (and some paperback, there are some great photos in the physical version!)
What it's like: It' ...more
Rating: 4/5 storms that nearly destroy the world's fair
Format: Audiobook. (and some paperback, there are some great photos in the physical version!)
What it's like: It' ...more
Jul 31, 2012
Rae
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liked it
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2012,
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Larson weaves two main stories together in this true crime / narrative non-fiction book about the World's Fair in Chicago and a gruesome serial killer of women and children.
I got bogged down in the endless trivia and was generally annoyed by the switching back and forth of the two plot threads. I think readers would have been better served by two completely separate books--one about the fair and one about the serial killer. Other than those personal responses, though, this was a decent read. ...more
I got bogged down in the endless trivia and was generally annoyed by the switching back and forth of the two plot threads. I think readers would have been better served by two completely separate books--one about the fair and one about the serial killer. Other than those personal responses, though, this was a decent read. ...more
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One of my favorite books ever. I'm a big fan of Erik Larson's style of writing!
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I read this for the serial killer half of the story, yet I did find the fair information very interesting, far more so than I expected. It's not something I would have learned anything about otherwise.
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Jul 12, 2012
taeli
marked it as to-read
Oct 30, 2012
Elizabeth Hull-Morales
rated it
it was amazing
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readandowned
Jan 10, 2014
Katy
marked it as to-read
Jan 18, 2015
Wendy
marked it as own-tbr
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own-tbr-print,
own-tbr-nonfiction
