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Samuel Useche _averick710 — I just never got into H.D. Perhaps I should try again on this one.

Min Sun designahn — If anyone can recommend fun historical books like this or like The Professor and the Madman, please let me know. As much as I like biographies and histories about political or military leaders, these books that dig into tidbits of history are a lot of fun. This one is about the Worlds Fair in Chicago in 1893. It is also about H. H. Holmes, a serial killer who built a hotel near the fair. The book is arranged so that you read one chapter about the Fair's development and then one chapter about Holmes. Some critics have said that it feels disjointed, but I don't agree. The fit together chronologically, and it's nice to know what is going on in Chicago while Holmes is preparing his hotel and then luring his victims. I think a book solely about the Fair, while interesting, would not have been as compelling. Likewise, a book solely about Holmes would have been hard to place in context. Together, I felt like I was getting a nice overview of an important event in US history (the even that started the City Beautiful movement) while digging into one aspect of it--one of America's first and worst serial killers. Also, Larson's writing is easy to read and flows nicely. Sometimes I think the historical perspective is sacrificed for readability, but I did not feel that way in this book. On the contrary, I felt like I was getting a pretty good helping of interesting tidbits. Sure, there's only a small discussion about American architecture and about the political context of the fair, but that's not what this book is about. This book evokes the culture of Chicago at the end of an age. It's fun.

Share Nakalertkavee leborn_jam1260 — Well, I'm disappointed with this book. For starters, there are just some really creepy characters in here (and there were in the last several of his newest books, he didn't used to do that with his older stuff) and then whenever you read about them, it's from their POV as all characters in Nicholas Sparks books you know all of their POV's. I just didn't like being in the head of real low-life, creepy, criminal bad people and some major horrible violence. If I want a criminal mind sort of book (that's also filled with some awful violence), I will go find one, I just didn't expect that from Nicholas Sparks. I feel like his style of stories has changed...he has added really intense conflict that is not your typical nice, fluffy, romance book type of conflict that he has had in the past... I have major spoilers below, please scroll: I'm really disappointed in the main character, Amanda. I felt like she was just a fence sitter on making decisions. She was totally asking for Dawson to love her and basically soliciting it, the fact that she wouldn't deliver, bothered me. I don't agree about married people cheating on each other, but heck, she was looking for it, and asking for it, and then backs off at the last second. When she's leaving town she ::wants:: to go back to Dawson, but at the last second, she doesn't. Either fully cheat, and go for it, or don't. She fully solicits for past love and emotion to come back up and then she won't face it and all of a sudden has responsibilities. Poor Dawson! She just leads him on, and especially when she knows he has only loved her and never dated anyone again 25 years later... It just bugged me that she leads him on, then didn't fully sleep with him, in her mind, she didn't cheat....um not in my opinion. She totally cheated. It just bugged me. And we all knew she should have chosen Dawson. Also, I knew since the cousins of Dawson wanted to kill him, that they prolly would succeed. The second I read that Amanda's son was in a car accident, I knew somehow Dawson would help her... then when I read that the boy needed a heart transplant, I was like, okay, Dawson dies and it will be his heart, and it fully was. No surprise twist there. Come on, Nicholas Sparks, usually you throw in twists we can guess, this one was so obvious! I was also disappointed that Amanda would stay in a pretty much love-less marriage after all she had been through with Dawson. She had already told Frank she was leaving him, and then she decides she wants to stay out of convenience. Sure, she claims it's so her son would recover better, but I disagree that someone should stay in an awful marriage that's horribly damaged for the sake of a 19 yr old child/adult... the whole thing bugged me, and then Amanda just seemed fine that Dawson died and like life would go on for her.... I feel like if she ::really:: loved him, she would have been much more damaged and had major grief and thought about him a lot. In the relationship between Amanda and Dawson, ::clearly:: he loved her FAR more than she loved him back. It didn't make for that great of a love story to me, because of that. Usually the people in Nicholas Sparks love stories, they have amazing love stories. Amanda just lives in the moment and does what is most convenient for her at the moment. She doesn't think much for her future. Lame. Made me just be completely annoyed by that character and not even like her. The paranormal stuff has been creeping into several of the latest novel's from Nicholas Sparks as well, and it has bugged me. I feel like he can then make his books take any twist and almost makes for unfair plot twists. The paranormal in this book was more believable, but it was not my favorite. And I fully knew from early on that the paranormal was Mr. Bonner. I might actually just delete this book from my kindle. I will ::never:: read it again. Hated the violence, hated the criminal/low life characters, hated the main character didn't know love when it knocked her in the head, twice, for that matter.... Disappointing. I may not read any more Nicholas Sparks books after this. He usually comes out with one a year, but I think I'm done now.

Chu Feng feng_chuyun — Chrysanthemum loves her name until kids at school make fun of it.