Dead Wake

He's like Pynchon without all the gags and gimmicks.

Devil in the White City is a supreme achievement.

>>9736477
quick rundown on how he's like pynchon?

>>9736477
Devil in the White City was quite possibly one of the most boring, cliche, long winded, dull, pieces of "nonfiction" I read last year. Sorry, that was hyperbole, I actually could not finish it even though I had around 60 pages left to go. I just couldnt go on, after ever one of the killer's chapters ending falling flat on witty cliffhangers, and the excruciatingly unnecessary side characters. What did you like so much? I admit it was interesting knowing about the quantity of the workforce, money and resources spent on the fair.

>>9738046
I'm interested in this too. I read White City a while back and I just don't see it.

Also how's that WW2 book he wrote, Garden of Beasts? Someone gave me a copy of it.

>>9738455
In the Garden of the Beasts is phenomenal. Highly recommended.

>>9736469
Fucking love Larson. He is the master of weaving together two seemingly unrelated narratives into one beautiful historical orgy. The amount of research that he does for each novel is ridiculous and he brings alive every little detail so well that you think the event happened two years ago instead of 100 years ago.

Devil in the white city is fantastic, this was great, thunderstruck lulled but was still interesting, Issac's storm was OK.