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Title: A great read
Review: This was on a lot of people's lists for the best books of 2003. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's the parallel story of Chicago's preparation to host the World's Fair in 1893, and the story of a psychopathic serial killer living at the same time and place. The writing is good. The history fascinating. Larson tells the horrific story of the murders without lapsing into sensationalism, and paints the majesty of the World's Fair and the effect it had on the people of Chicago with a wonderfully vivid brush. Were a similar fair to take place today, it would seem overly extravagant. Were a madman to create a house of torture today, it would seem yet another sign of our degenerative times. But in 1893, the extravagance stems from a sense of civic pride rather than corporate greed, and the murder spree is so out-of-place that it does seem like the work of the devil. Two great stories that, juxtaposed, stand even stronger.
