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sulovebug's review against another edition
Too dry. It didn’t catch my attention long enough.
jess_mango's review against another edition
4.0
I really enjoyed the chapters of this book that focused on the planning & designing of the World's Fair... on the other hand, the chapters about the serial killer: not so much. While reading the serial killer chapters, I found myself longing for the next World's Fair chapter.
mb1520's review against another edition
5.0
At first I was skeptical of this book. I’m not a huge history buff and decided to read it purely to learn more about H. H. Holmes. I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to handle reading every other chapter about architects who built building over 100 years ago. Boy was I wrong.
I loved this book. I enjoyed reading about H. H. Holmes and trying to understand his psyche (which I anticipated), but I also thoroughly enjoyed reading about the World’s Fair. I looked forward to seeing what would happen next at the fair, between the planning, building, and “out-Eiffeling Eiffel”. What I enjoyed even more was trying to figure out how everything was connected. Larson does a fabulous job of weaving bits and pieces together and foreshadowing (which kept me reading more). I couldn’t put it down.
After reading this book, I want to learn more about the World’s Fair and, honestly, history in general. This book may have just turned me into a history buff.
I loved this book. I enjoyed reading about H. H. Holmes and trying to understand his psyche (which I anticipated), but I also thoroughly enjoyed reading about the World’s Fair. I looked forward to seeing what would happen next at the fair, between the planning, building, and “out-Eiffeling Eiffel”. What I enjoyed even more was trying to figure out how everything was connected. Larson does a fabulous job of weaving bits and pieces together and foreshadowing (which kept me reading more). I couldn’t put it down.
After reading this book, I want to learn more about the World’s Fair and, honestly, history in general. This book may have just turned me into a history buff.
wittyraven24's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
3.75
aurorakretsch's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
3.0
This book was pretty disappointing honestly. I kinda felt like he was making connections where there weren’t a ton just to make the book about more than one thing. I honestly think this should have been two separate books. One about the World Fair and one about HH Holmes because it’s not like he exclusively killed at the World Fair, he was just in Chicago and happened to go to it and capitalize on it financially.
sunbreak's review against another edition
4.0
I like any book that has trivia about pabst! I enjoyed this book a great deal, it could only have been improved by including more social history.