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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Erik Larson
3.87 AVERAGE
9.35k reviews for:
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Erik Larson
3.87 AVERAGE
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3.7 — I wanted to like it more. To be fair, I went into this book expecting more H.H.Holmes than what we got. The Authors Note mentioned choosing this particular time in history and these two men — Burnham and Holmes — for their ambition translating in different ways, but I thought the men were a little too different in their approaches to accomplishing their work. Burnham was essentially a project manager and a lot of his duties were in the direction of others, appeasing and compromising with team members and not losing his mind when committees and director-generals threw shit at the fan. Holmes was more hands on and his actions lacked any real motive. It felt less cohesive than what I think the author was trying to accomplish and both could have been their own books. Ultimately it appeared that the book was 70% world faire, 20% Holmes and 10% Pendergast & Miscellaneous city/country events happening at the same time. I did enjoy it ultimately and I’m glad I read it but would probably not pick it up again.
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Fascinating story. Great pacing. Very factual, timeline oriented.
This was very good. It juxtaposed the history of the Chicago World's Fair with a serial killer. It has lots of great historical information, and an interesting story for mystery lovers.
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