Personally, I have always been fascinated with serial killers
and what compels them to commit murder, so The Devil in the White City by Erik
Larson was the first book that caught my eye. I also already had extensive
knowledge about America’s first known serial killer, H.H. Holmes, who is the perpetrator
in the novel. The author bases the novel around the building of the 1893
Chicago World’s Fair, aka the World’s Columbian Exposition. The novel is
nonlinear and separated into four parts, which I found intriguing because I
enjoy nonlinear films, so a nonlinear book was right up my alley. Larson
focuses on recreating two men, H.H. Holmes and David Burnham, as well as Chicago
at that time. Burnham was the head architect behind the World’s Fair, and Dr. Holmes
starts out as a man in search of work as a doctor, and ends up being a serial
killer running the “World’s Fair Hotel”, who gases, skins, and fillets his
victims. The events that take place in the book are something to be described
as almost too strange to be true.
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Sarah, this book seems very interesting,the fact it's about a serial killer also interests me, if I knew more about the backround of the book I might have read it!
-Byron Solis
Sarah, From reading your blog i can see that the book you're reading is a very interesting book. It contains many stories within a story which is always entertaining. If I had to do the project over again i would want to read you're book.
-Kyle Kincey
Sarah, the basis of this book is very intriguing, and the late 1800's is one of my favorite periods of time in history. I don't have an extended knowledge of H.H. Holmes, or very many other serial killers. Perhaps, reading this book will give me some more insight.
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