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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!)
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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
Nov 06, 2008
Jaime
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really liked it
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true-crime,
read-2011
What first interested me in this book was H.H. Holmes. I’m a sucker for a serial killer, and what’s more interesting than the man who was one of America’s first? Holmes was an extremely smart and clever man, able to pull off con after con for years to not only acquire victims, but money and property. He built his own house of horrors under the nose of other people who not only worked in the building, but lived there. By the time the authorities caught up with him, mostly by luck, he had killed 2
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This book started off really great. It had me hooked, but it got a little boring toward the middle. I struggled to finish it, but I'm glad I did. It was really interesting.
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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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This was a fascinating book. I had to continue reminding myself that it was not fiction that I was reading, but history. I loved the weaving of the two main historical figures- the architect who built the fair and the serial murderer that preyed on the people drawn in by the fair. Really amazing and it made me want to go read more about the fair and the killer (who was, by the way, really a sick and twisted man).
A fascinating read and I highly recommend it.
A fascinating read and I highly recommend it.
Great read! So fascinating and interesting.
I guess I was expecting a lot more from this book when I picked it up so I was disappointed and it was really, really easy to put down and walk away from which in my definition means it was just ok.
Aug 04, 2010
Amy Richard
marked it as to-read
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started-reading-but-stopped
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
Jul 11, 2016
Pam DiPasqua Fitzsimmons
marked it as to-read
