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S'està carregant… The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (2003 original; edició 2004)de Erik Larson (Autor)
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It's like browsing through the catalogs in the library, or the web, you never know what intersting & surprising facts might turn up ( ) This was good, although the reason it didn't get a 4-star rating was because it was anti-climatic. I would have liked to read a little more about the reactions of the families of all the girls they knew Holmes had killed, and/or read some of the letters written about missing family members who went to the World's Fair. There was no inclusion of Burnham's view of Holmes or any awareness of what went on during that time, though Larson alludes to the fact that Burnham did know or had occasion to comment on the murders. Larson is a great writer, but the end felt rushed--he could have left out several things that seemed to drag on about the fair and included more of Holmes' atrocities to make this an equal accounting. I thought, by the title, that the book would be more about Holmes than the Fair, but that is not the case at all. It was more about the Chicago World's Fair than anything else. Like the black-and-white photos that bear images of the 1893 World's Fair, Eric Larson's account of the events leading up to, during, and after the fair stand in sharp contrast to each, and in an assortment of charcoals and grays. On one hand, garbed in the blackest of blacks, is a mass-murdering devil, and on the other, radiant in white, it the White City, which fleetingly existed between May 1 and October 30, 1893, which was brought into being by a cast of characters whose personalities, egos, talents, power, and vision came in a wide range of shades and sizes. Larson provides readers with just enough intimate detail from the lives of the men and women associated with the fair to balance the larger-than-life qualities of the event itself, which included an array of spectacles, including a ghastly fire and a tornado which, while leaving the Ferris wheel generally undisturbed, took out a good deal of glass, a roof, and the plumes on the birds at the Fair's ostrich farm. My only criticism of the book would be that it should have included more photos, and a map of the fair grounds. In their absence, I supplemented my reading with the following Internet resources: Map: http://www.explorechicago.org/city/en/neighborhoods/jackson_park__msi.html Article from Harper’s in 1943: http://www.harpers.org/archive/1943/12/0020617 Trailer for documentary film on Holmes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yI-9I3plA0&feature=player_embedded 1895 Chicago Trib article about Holmes’ Castle: http://www.fold3.com/image/#216160526 I love history, through fiction/fantasy is my preferred genre I do love biographies and history books and always have. This book however, was a challenge to read. The good - it was an extremely accurate account of the events surrounding the Chicago World Fair, which is an interesting topic in and of itself in history. If you are an architect or have tremendous knowledge or interest in architecture this book is for you. The bad - Unless you are into reading very dry, very detailed historical books this is not for you. Unless you are interested in finding out exactly what a bunch of rich people had for dinner during the chicago world fair and every single event they attended, then this book is not for you. Unless you have a fiery passion and extensive knowledge of architecture, this book is not for you. Every single shred of information that the author was able to find was put into this book, it doesn't matter how small or how uninteresting it was. In the books defense I started reading thinking it was a historical fiction, just a very historically accurate one, but if so then the author has the smallest imagination I've ever had the displeasure of encountering. So perhaps my mindset was not the best, but I can assure you that it is dry. I found myself hoping that the serial killer would kill someone just so something interesting would happen - it drove me to wish for a truly terrible thing to have happened to a real person just so I could escape the intense boredom of the books pages. Honestly, if I hadn't been reading this for a book club, I don't believe I could have finished it.
Mr. Larson has written a dynamic, enveloping book filled with haunting, closely annotated information. And it doesn't hurt that this truth really is stranger than fiction. Contingut aAbreujat aTé una guia d'estudi per a estudiantsPremisDistincionsLlistes notables
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