The World Isn't Fair

I finished reading The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson last week.  It was a really interesting novel - telling the story of the Chicago's World Fair and the infamous murderer and first American psychopath, H.H. Holmes.  I've already written a bit about this novel, but some of the most interesting information put forth in the book was about the World's Fair.  All the things that were introduced at the fair, how the main architect of the fair didn't have a degree (he had test anxiety), the landscape architect had extreme anxiety and insomnia, and how the Ferris Wheel came to be the rival to the Eiffel Tower despite everyone saying it would never work. 

The real thing I am excited to hear about is the fact that this book is going to be turned into a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio.  It isn't slated to come out until 2013 but it looks to be an interesting telling of the fiend of hell living side by side the heavenly white city of the Chicago's World Fair.