Nancee I. (honorgrace) - , reviewed on 9/17/2009 + 10 more book reviews

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I was disappointed to be actually bored by what I thought would be an involving and interesting tale of the first person to be described as a "psychopath"--the word was invented to describe/try to explain what this guy was! But what I found my self reading was a history lesson on the Chicago Worlds' Fair given by a good upper-level schoolteacher.
Personally, I am simply not interested much in the lives, lifestyles, paperwork, health issues of a bunch of (admittedly talented) architects in 1893. The Devil himself took up less than a third of the actual book and his misdeeds evaded any sort of description till the very end (and were presented in oddly Victorian description & restraint).
Well-written for what it is and no doubt would be of interest to those who like tales of historical bureaucracy, urban squalor,and the Manly Men of the turn of the last century---not my cup of tea,however.

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