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this book is creeeeeepy and alltrue!!! Being from Chicago I was in an awful thrall the entire time, The only thing that was missing for me would have been some kind of map to show where exactly the Fair was located, and all the other buildings he talks about.
. . I think the fair was probably located roughly on what the Museum Campus is now, but I still would like to see a map,

And the people! Burnham and Root and Atwood, . . and Carter Henry Harrison! It says his mansion was on Ashland, I'm wondering exactly where, And Mudgett I wonder where all of his buildings were, . . it sends chills up my spine just to think about it, I wonder if anyone has put together a tourist's map based on this book

O, K. , beyond my personal reasons for being fascinated, the writing is excellent, and really well documented, And the charming thing is that he documented everything in the back of the book in a really simple way, so if you were so inclined you would not have to be a big fancy scholar to follow his paper trail and see all of this stuff for yourself.
Power to the people!

And the writing style is accessible and the voice is also very appropriate, . . he kind of veers between eulogist and undertaker, And the few times that he takes liberties and describes things that no one could ever really possibly have documented, he does so in a way that is careful and responsible.
And I think for him not to have taken the liberties would have been a mistake, . . I think everyone who read the book would have thought there was something missing,

And what's ultimately really rewarding about this book is that the author outlines all the ways in which the influences of Fair ofreverberated in American culture and the world for years afterward.
Our aesthetic sensibility as a nation was permanently changed, And our technological sensibility. And to think that all of this was planned so fast, it was like a supernova in the middle of this underdeveloped backwater oh, I said it.
I live here now, and sometimes I still think of Chicago that way, . And that with all that progress comes this darkness, too, there's this underside to everything,

And with that lovely thought, I'm going to try and find the Wooded Island, Ciao! Erik Larson is an amazing historical writer one of those rare breed who can bring the past to life and make it seem immediate, fresh, intimate and amazing.
The book is based on fact, but it reads like the best of novels, going back and forth between the team racing to put together the most important peacetime event in U.
S. history, and a psychopathic murderer who is stalking the city at the same time, preying on young women with a cold efficiency that makes Jack the Ripper look like excuse the pun a hack.
I had no particular interest in the Chicago World's Fair, but Larson is a teacher who can make you forget you are learning, Anywhere he chooses to take you, you can be assured the ride is worth the price of admission, Poor Erik Larson.

He wanted to write an extensive, indepth look at theWorld's Fair, which was a collaboration of some of the greatest creative minds in the country including the guy who designed the Flatiron building in New York and Walt Disney's dad and gave us, among other things, the Ferris Wheel, the zipper, shredded wheat, and Columbus Day.
The entire venture was almost a disaster, with delays, petty fighting, bad weather, and more delays, but it was ultimately a massive success and helped make the city of Chicago what it is today.


Here's what it must have looked like when Larson pitched his idea for the book:

Larson: "And the fair didn't go flawlessly towards the end of the fair, the mayor of Chicago was assassinated by a crazy guy, and there were tons of disappearances over the course of the fair, and a lot of them were probably the work of this serial killer who had opened a hotel near the fairgrounds

Editor: "Wait, serial killer And it's connected to the fair Cool, let's try to include that in the book.
Also the crazy assassin sounds good, too, "

Larson: "No, the killer H, H. Holmes really wasn't connected to the fair at all, I mean, he used the fair as a way to collect victims, but he would have killed tons of people even without it, In fact, after the fair he moved on and kept murdering people, so the fair really didn't have any effect on his methods, . . "

Editor: "Doesn't matter! How about you alternate between chapters about the fair and chapters about Holmes killing people"

Larson: "But I don't really know much about that.
Nobody does Holmes never admitted to killing all those people, even after the police found human remains in his basement, I don't really know any actual details about the killings, "

Editor: "That's okay, you can just make it up, I'll give you some trashy crime novels to read, that'll give you some ideas, Now tell me more about the assassination, "

Larson: "He was just some mentally unbalanced person who thought he deserved a position in the mayor's office and shot the guy when he realized it wasn't going to happen.
But the death cast a pall over the entire closing ceremony of the fair, and it "

Editor: "Good, let's sprinkle in some bits about the crazy guy throughout the book, too.
Now, back to Holmes: did he maybe kill somebody at the fair, or did they find a body on the grounds or something"

Larson: "No, the Chicago police didn't even notice anything was happening.
It wasn't until he left Chicago that a detective from another state tracked him down, "

Editor: "Okay, so we'll make the end of the book about the manhunt for Holmes and his capture, "

Larson: "What does any of this have to do with the World's Fair"

Editor: "Hell if I know, You're the writer, not me you figure it out, Here's a check. Now go make me a bestseller!"

Four for the World's Fair stuff, two for the pulpy unrelated bullshit, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, Erik Larson

The Devil in the White City, is the history of Chicago, especially the World's Fair, and the real crime of H.
H. Holmes. the book is divided into four parts, the first three happening in Chicago betweenand, while part four of the book takes place in Philadelphia circa,

H. H. Holmes, or Herman Mudgett, a charismatic physician, artist, and serial killer who tricked twentyseven to two hundred people into bringing them to his hotel, He killed women, tested them, and sold their bones to medical schools,

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اچ, اچ هولمز یا هرمن ماجت پزشکی کاریزماتیک هنرمند و قاتلی سریالی بوده که بین بیست و هفت تا دویست تن را فریب داده و به هتلی که در اختیار داشت آورده وی زنان را به قتل میرسانده بر روی آنها آزمایش انجام میداده و استخوانهایشان را به دانشکده های پزشکی میفروخته است او برای هر کدام از اتاقهای هتل خود یک راه پنهانی در نظر گرفته بوده و نیمه های شب به سراغ قربانیهای خویش میرفته در زمان ساختن راههای پنهانی او کارگرها و معماران را هماره اخراج میکرده تا کسی متوجه راز شوم او نگردد با اینحال هیچکس به او مشکوک نمیشود و او همچنان به کشتار مهمانان هتل میپردازد چیزی که همگی این رویدادها را واقعیتر و خوفناکتر میکند این است که هولمز واقعا وجود داشته است قاتلی سریالی که به اعتراف خودش مرتکب بیست و هفت قتل شده بود

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