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re: SECrOTB Book Club: I need a good book to read
Posted on 4/15/15 at 10:01 pm to CheeseburgerEddie
Posted on 4/15/15 at 10:01 pm to CheeseburgerEddie
Devil in the White City wasn't a hard read at all, I just find that I can't read non-fiction as quickly as I can fiction. Part of that is I will stop and Wikipedia people that the book is talking about incessantly. Same thing happened for me with Unbroken, Lone Survivor, American Sniper, etc.
Case in point: DitWC dealt a lot with architecture and landscape design. Not the most interesting topic for me, but FL Olmstead was tasked with designing the grounds for the world fair in 1892. Before that, he was the lead landscape architect for Central Park. I just got back from NYC and had a few jaunts there. Learning about him and all his works was super interesting for me. He's just one of a few dozen guys I got off track learning about during that reading that made it take so long.
Case in point: DitWC dealt a lot with architecture and landscape design. Not the most interesting topic for me, but FL Olmstead was tasked with designing the grounds for the world fair in 1892. Before that, he was the lead landscape architect for Central Park. I just got back from NYC and had a few jaunts there. Learning about him and all his works was super interesting for me. He's just one of a few dozen guys I got off track learning about during that reading that made it take so long.
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Posted on 4/15/15 at 10:13 pm to 3nOut
I do kind of he same thing. When I was younger I read No One Here Gets Out Alive about Jim Morrison - really good book if I remember correctly - but I ended up reading The Doors of Perception by Huxley and some other philosophy book that kept getting mentioned as being influential to Morrioson before I finished the actual biography cause I got distracted
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