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A review by kessler21
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
I was really interested in this story and I love Erik Larson but I did not finish this book.
Thunderstruck is the story of the second most famous murder in London as well as the invention of the wireless telegram and how the two stories coincide.
The reason I did not finish this book is due to the supernatural/paranormal. I do not read books that touch on this.
In the early 1900s I was not aware how much supernatural and paranormal integrated with science. At a time when discoveries of how electricity and magnetism worked, science itself seemed supernatural and paranormal. I understand this and was interested in this fact. But when the story started detailing paranormal and supernatural experiments with unseen forces/people in the room, I was finished with the book. I finished learning about the actual story and the wireless telegram on Wikipedia.
Thunderstruck is the story of the second most famous murder in London as well as the invention of the wireless telegram and how the two stories coincide.
The reason I did not finish this book is due to the supernatural/paranormal. I do not read books that touch on this.
In the early 1900s I was not aware how much supernatural and paranormal integrated with science. At a time when discoveries of how electricity and magnetism worked, science itself seemed supernatural and paranormal. I understand this and was interested in this fact. But when the story started detailing paranormal and supernatural experiments with unseen forces/people in the room, I was finished with the book. I finished learning about the actual story and the wireless telegram on Wikipedia.