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Erik Larson, author of the international bestseller Isaac's Storm, was nominated for a National Book Award for The Devil in the White City, which also won an Edgar Award for fact-crime writing. His latest book, In the Garden of Beasts: Love Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, has been acquired for publication in 20 countries and optioned by Tom Hanks for a feature film. Erik is a former features writer for The Wall Street Journal and Time. His magazine stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and other publications.
Larson has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and the University of Oregon, and has spoken to audiences from coast to coast. He lives in Seattle with his wife, who is the director of neonatology at the University of Washington Medical Center and at Children's Hospital of Seattle, and the author of the nonfiction memoir, Almost Home, which, as Erik puts it, "could make a stone cry." They have three daughters in far-flung locations.
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Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.
The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.
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《黑客帝国》里，墨菲斯展开双手分别放着两颗药丸，红色和蓝色，他对尼奥说，红色知道真相但会很痛苦，蓝色会睡个好觉，第二天上班、下班，生活依旧。无疑，吞下红色会进入真实的世界，那么蓝色则是虚幻的世界，我常常无法理解什么样的生活才是真实的生活，就像《阿凡达》的主...
评分《白城恶魔》书评 “这是一个最坏的时代，也是最好的时代。”——查尔斯·狄更斯 《白城恶魔》描写的是美国1893年举办芝加哥世博会准备期间、开放期间和闭幕之后的故事。分类虽是小说，但作者以记录历史的方式，在纸上复活了19世纪80年代的芝加哥，“黑城”。因为非虚构写作的...
评分《白城恶魔》书评 “这是一个最坏的时代，也是最好的时代。”——查尔斯·狄更斯 《白城恶魔》描写的是美国1893年举办芝加哥世博会准备期间、开放期间和闭幕之后的故事。分类虽是小说，但作者以记录历史的方式，在纸上复活了19世纪80年代的芝加哥，“黑城”。因为非虚构写作的...
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好过瘾的non-fiction书！讲述的是19世纪末芝加哥世博会前夕的一段真实连续杀人故事，由兴建纽约熨斗大楼的建筑师和外貌文雅内心邪恶的医生并行组成，也是因为这两条精彩的线牵引了我从昨天下午一直看到今天早晨4点多，其间还看了两集同时代英伦岛上的开膛街，可惜白天还要劳动，否则能再睡一大觉就完美了！
评分应该是很好的一本historical non-fiction，但是我就是不能connect。所以等着看电影了。
评分像小说一样流畅的历史加真实犯罪的书，怪不得会成为学校必读书目之一。我既喜欢又恨作者像织网那样把两个故事 - 一个宏伟，一个惊傈 - 穿插在一起。 -- 2009-6-1
评分虽然连环杀手大概是更大的噱头，我倒更喜欢世博会的篇幅。Burnham当年碰到的各种困难，官僚主义，权力斗争，合伙人的意外死亡，芝加哥的恶劣的地质条件和天气，罢工，火灾，经济萧条等等等等，实在是让我对自己工作中碰到的问题汗颜。这么坚毅的Burnham，在给自己老婆写信的时候又呈现出完全不同的一面，各种倾诉相思之苦，实在是甜死啦
评分one of the most fascinating books i've ever read
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