Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

8 reviews

elg1105's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

sarareads03's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

zee's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

3.25

Very slow. As I was unaware of the Crippen murder, I was lacking a lot of context going into this book. The two storylines (Marconi's global wireless and the Crippen murder) take a long time to dovetail, and the link between the two is tenuous at best. Crippen's portion is fascinating (but slow) and Marconi is frankly a dick (though it was interesting how little Newfoundland features despite their claim to his fame now!).

Larson attempts to recreate the winning formula of Devil in the White City but manages to slightly miss the mark — neither portion of Thunderstruck have the same draw. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Murder

arcane_haze's review against another edition

dark informative sad slow-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

am4man's review

dark informative slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Murder

Minor: War

caffeinated_cassade's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious tense fast-paced

4.0

I did not expect to like this book as much as I did, but I was caught up in it from the start. Larson is able to really draw a reader into thinking they’re reading this murder mystery piece of fiction, despite this being a work of nonfiction. I hadn’t known anything about the Crippen murder prior to reading this book and I finished feeling astonished and intrigued. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Murder

cobwebjr's review against another edition

3.0

I’ve always enjoyed Larson’s books but found his overtly misogynistic description of the literal murder victim to be very disconcerting and unnecessary.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Suicide

mscalls's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail