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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
47 reviews
nick_00's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Suicide, and Torture
robinwritesallthethings's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Torture, and Murder
Moderate: Abortion
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Miscarriage
emercedesrich's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Torture and Murder
Moderate: Xenophobia, Abortion, and Colonisation
soythesauce's review against another edition
4.75
A must read for anyone that loves Modern day Chicago, Chicago history and/or serial killers.
Burnham is a genius and Chicago would not be the gorgeous city that it is today if it wasn’t for him and architects that were inspired by him.
Graphic: Death, Gore, Torture, Blood, and Murder
ottolee's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Cultural appropriation
ame_why's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
mariakureads's review against another edition
3.5
It's been on my TBR since who knows when and after a few starts and stops, I'm done.
Larson wrote a very detailed, and I do mean very, account of the Chicago's World Fair, the atmosphere and history of the time, as well as the serial killer hiding amongst, the glitz, dirt, toils, glamour that the Fair brought to the city at the time.
The book involves a large set of people, all oddly enough interlocked in different ways and avenues and Larson explored and provided so many facts through his meticulous research that at different points were not only quotes provided, but newspaper clippings, menus, images, and witness accounts which some were interesting and others felt staid and dry and I lost interest at different parts of the book.
At times so factual that when the alternative chapters of the serial killer, H.H. Holmes, were introduced, it would sometimes grab my attention for a few pages but it felt odd as I was thrown off a few times by the pacing especially the further I read on to find that while the World's Fair and Holmes were in the same city, there was nothing concrete to tie them together since Holmes was adamant that he didn't do anything or was guilty of such killings—that the disappearances were a happenstance, surely, by his account.
Larson is a great researcher, this I'm sure of, and gave me so much new information specific to the fair and all the people, some later becoming famous in their own right, that all in all, while I had a few disconnects, the book is a solid read.
Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Torture, Murder, and Gaslighting
Minor: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment
megmoo's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Body horror and Torture
margolovie89's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, and Medical content
a_meanderer's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, and Murder