The Devil in the White City in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Nov 23, 2016 Lisa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: narrative-non-fiction

No better example to be careful of those who seem to be personable, attentive, or just a little too good to be true in some way. Those could be the people who hide at least a hateful person under a mask of goodness and at the worst a psychotic, deranged monster.
Some details about inner-most thoughts felt contrived but otherwise this book was amazing in that it felt like a fictional story with an almost supernatural element (a devil contaminating the planning, building and execution of The World' ...more

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Dec 30, 2009 Elizabeth rated it it was ok

I really didn't see why this book is supposed to be so great. It's well researched and full of (mostly) interesting information but the author really fails to pull together a compelling storyline that takes you through the book. The first part of the book laying the groundwork was good, but then it really lost me. ...more

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Nov 19, 2010 Bradley rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: year-2011, year-2011-bookclub

I was supposed to read this for my August book club but it's not very good August reading. And my September book club meets on Wednesday so I wanted to read it before I read the September book.

I was really disappointed by this book. It's a sprawling unwieldy book with too many characters to keep track of. The description made me think that it would be a straight forward serial killer at the Chicago's World Fair but it wasn't. There's to much focus on the intricacies of the fair and less on the ...more

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Sep 08, 2015 Julia added it

Read it a long time ago. Didn't love it, but finished it so it couldn't have been too bad. ...more

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Mar 28, 2019 Debbie rated it did not like it

Shelves: abandoned

I tried for a solid week to get into this. There were bits and pieces that were interesting in the first 7% of the ebook, but I couldn’t read it at night without falling asleep, which is (right now) when I read 90% of the time.

I may come back to it when I have more daylight time to read it. Just not right now.

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