A Book of True Crime

[sitonmyinterface]

Task #2 of the BookRiot Read Harder Challenge:

🔪A book of true crime - Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson


I was dancing around this title for years, and never took the plunge because it appeared to be more geared toward the World's Fair in Chicago. My intuition was correct. It seemed like every two chapters you would read a bit about H.H. Holmes and the rest was the inception, construction, and completion of building the "White City". Turns out this fair was the first place a Ferris Wheel was constructed, so that was an interesting tidbit.

Comments

[anankastick]

That book has been on my to-read list forever. My fiance keeps telling me to read it so we can talk about it. I've stalled because I'm way more interested in HH Holmes than in Chicago history (even though I grew up near there), but I'll get around to it this year, I think...

[sitonmyinterface]

It's almost like the book had HH Holmes in the background among the other story. It was good, don't get me wrong. The writing flowed nicely and all, but it simply wasn't what I was expecting. what would he like to discuss about it?