May 11, 2025
Have you read The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson (2003)?
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Have you read The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson (2003)?
yes
no
I didn't finish it
I've never heard of it
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I went to a thrift store today and they were having a 4 for 1$ sale so I got some books
Kind of a weird selection lol
ive never read Fahrenheit 451 so I wanted to try it out (im prob either going to love it or hate it)
devil in the white city has been recommended to me a lot by a lot of other book people
I used to be a huge Riggs fan and I like little short stories so im exited for tales of the peculiar
I really like reading books by certain presidents and I needed a fourth book so that’s why I got decision points lol
A little different from my main posts but I wanted to share this somewhere and I dont talk about books on any other platforms
What did I just learn about ? 😶 I don't recall learning about the sinking of the Lusitania in high school, but man that story is intense!
This is my first read through of this book and it was sobering. Before this book I had never heard of the Lusitania, but in reading this book I found myself kind of going through a whirlwind of emotions and feelings. The history found within was kind of mind-boggling. Reading along, I almost felt the confidence of Captain Turner and all the passengers, but by the title I knew something bad was going to happen. And it did. The pages telling of the torpedoing, evacuation, and sinking of the Lusitania are filled unimaginable horror and catastrophic happenings. One can almost sense and feel the terror of all the passengers and crew of the ship. Overall, this book was masterfully written and has a knack for drawing one in. Towards the end there I had a hard time setting it down, even though I knew that there wasn't a happy ending for those aboard the ship
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"Pardon me if I overwhelm you; it is a matter of chronic anger with me."
Old man Olmsted of Central Park fame had some lines ngl.
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson page 57
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Wolverine (Vol. 2) #133 Varient - November 1988 - Art - Erik Larson
The post about stories where "the house loves you and that's a bad thing" reminded me of a science fiction story I read years ago about a smart building that becomes murderously attached to its occupant and ends up making history as the first machine intelligence to be criminally indicted as a sapient individual.
I'd always thought it was by Arthur C. Clarke, but I'm trying to keep the habit of fact-checking things before I post them, so I went to check and it turns out the anthology I read it in was overseen by Clarke but the actual story is by Erik Larson. (I haven't been able to confirm whether this was the Erik Larson, the one who wrote The Devil in the White City.)
Anyway, the thing I wanted to tell you before I got sidetracked is that this story about the criminal smart building is titled "House Arrest".
What have you been reading since the last time you posted your latest reads?
It's been a few months since I updated my latest reads, so I'm probably going to forget a few titles, but here's what I've been reading since then:
•The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•Pancho Villa: A Revolutionary Life by Paco Ignacio Taibo II and translated by Todd Chretien (BOOK | KINDLE)
•The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship That Saved Yosemite by Dean King (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day by Garrett M. Graff (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•Too Rich: The High Life and Tragic Death of King Farouk by William Stadiem (BOOK)
•The House Divided: Sunni, Shia, and the Making of the Middle East by Barnaby Rogerson (BOOK | KINDLE)
•Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson by James Marcus (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•The Founders' Curse: James Monroe's Struggle Against Political Parties by Brook Poston (BOOK | KINDLE)
•Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861 by Robert W. Merry (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln's New Birth of Freedom Remade the World by Don H. Doyle (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty by Alexander Larman (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George Stephanopoulos with Lisa Dickey (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War by James B. Conroy (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling by Jon Langmead (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•The Rivals: William Gwin, David Broderick, and the Birth of California by Arthur Quinn (BOOK)
•The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives by Adam Smyth (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity by Michael Cook (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•The Thought of Pope Benedict XVI: An Introduction to the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger, Third Edition by Aidan Nichols (BOOK | KINDLE)
•Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309-1417: Popes, Institutions, and Society by Joëlle Rollo-Koster (BOOK | KINDLE)