“The Devil in the White City”

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My one Labor Day accomplishement (besides starting this blog) was finishing “The Devil in the White City,” by Erik Larson, which is an as-true-as-possible account of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. It was pretty different from what I normally read being history, but that’s a lot of the reason that I picked it up in the first place! Larson juxtaposes the story of David Burnham and the group of architects behind the fair with that of serial killer H.H. Holmes who killed mostly young women who he had working for him or staying in his hotel. The architect bits were well told and researched with tons and tons of details, but the Holmes parts were terribly interesting in that real crime way that I love Law & Order. Larson really has a knack for writing simple cliff-hanging sentences that he waits just long enough to reveal — a writing technique I really appreciate. It’s clever and interesting but not too high-brow; overall very readable and chock full of dinner party factoids.

September 4th, 2006
Categories: Books . Author: Katie

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