Tuyển Tập Những Ca Khúc Trữ Tình - Trang Nhật Ký tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Pencilk Gui _ — The comparisons of this book to Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City are inevitable. Both nonfiction books deal with serial killers who went undiscovered for much too long, both are set in large cities with major events happening, and even the titles are similar. While Devil was set against the happy backdrop of the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Death was set a half century later in the horrible time when Nazis controlled Paris. A serial killer, Marcel Petiot, during a time when so many were being tortured and murdered by a government headed by a maniac – people just disappeared all the time, so who would think it was the result of a serial killer rather than Hitler and minions? Especially when Dr. Petiot claimed to be part of the Resistance, helping people escape. Given the similar stories, the books are quite different because of the writing. Mr. King details lots of facts, so many that I had trouble keeping up. He has a habit of referring to places by their street addresses, and that was also hard to keep straight, as was the abundance of references to different people, especially when I didn't know which were going to be key players and which were not. Given that, I very much appreciated references to well-known people such as Sartre and Camus. There were many references to the costs in francs, but I would have appreciated a comparison to current value, because the value of a franc in 1940s occupied Paris means nothing to me, and I'm probably not alone in that. The writing was straightforward, usually a refreshing change from some of Larson's overblown phrases, but it did sometimes lapse into dryness. Until late into the book, I didn't really get a feel for Petiot, so much was about what was being discovered, but very little about the mind of Petiot. That did change, and made the last part of the book more interesting to me, made the book overall much more interesting. I am grateful to have received an uncorrected proof from the publisher.