monkey nonsense

i think it was my cousin jenny who xanga-ed about the devil in the white city, by erik larson… but it was a few months later when borders was having its buy 2, get the 3rd free sale that i bought the book. the book is about the 1893 world’s fair, held in chicago and a supposedly normal businessman/serial killer who preyed on the tourists visiting chicago. (i’m not really sure why she was so excited about reading this book! i think i’d find it creepy to know that that kind of stuff happened on the street i live off of, or a street a few blocks away :P)

i’m a wannabe-history buff… i enjoy random history now and then. so the book was pretty interesting to me. it was interesting to learn about the 1893 world’s fair and all the preparation needed to put it on. supposedly the book does an accurate job with the facts. it did get kind of dry some times… it’s a pretty long book. i think larson does a good job of mixing in the serial killer stuff whenever the world’s fair stuff starts to get boring. the serial killer stuff isn’t that bad… at first i was worried it’d be scared (i’m a big chicken), but i think i was more creepied out by how slick the serial killer was. and that’s what got me hooked in… how could people be so mesmerized (is that the best word?) by this guy so that they became his victims?!

next on my list of serial killer books… dexter! i want to see how different the tv show is from the original book, darkly dreaming dexter. actually, i’m a little afraid to read dexter…