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75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Mike's drive for 75		169	alcottacre, Today 1:54am
Metafilter : High-quality Mystery/Crime/Detective/Suspense Fiction?		11	juv3nal, Tuesday 1:29pm
50 Book Challenge : Judsia's		12	Judsia, Monday 4:17pm
Awful Lit. : Jump ship or go down with it?		93	lbradf, November 11
1010 Category Challenge : bk04011's 2010 10 x 10 Category Challenge		46	elliepotten, November 7
List Five Books Parlour Game : One Thing Leads to Another, Part II		257	janoorani24, October 18
Book talk : What's the average book in your library?		53	vpfluke, October 17
Historical Fiction : Historical accuracy - recommended authors?		138	celticlady53, October 12
Crime, Thriller & Mystery : Looking for a new author please		111	SomeGuyInVirginia, October 6
999 Challenge : MusicMom41's 999 challenge		341	MusicMom41, October 6
The Green Dragon : Top 5 on your TBR list		78	Shanra, October 3
Book talk : WHAT ARE YOU READING NOW? Where? Why? How? What? Is it? What?		160	callmejacx, September 30
What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 5 May 2007		124	usnmm2, September 27
50 Book Challenge : Meg's 50 Books!		18	MegMcDermott, August 26
Crime, Thriller & Mystery : What are you reading now?		306	txeqx, August 22
Book talk : Book gone missing... (Just ranting...)		33	divinenanny, August 18
The Green Dragon : The Recommend a book-thread		127	jillmwo, August 15
Book talk : Books that everyone loves and you hate		501	bookladykm, August 8
List Five Books Parlour Game : Tinker, Tailor...		54	rolandperkins, July 11
Go Review That Book! : Game Thread 3		250	lilyfyrestorm, June 23
Historical Fiction : What's next if I enjoyed . . .		7	zsigandr, June 18
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : SpongeBobFishpants 2009 Reading List		32	loriephillips, May 31
Hogwarts Express : I HAVE read X, but HAVE NOT read Y (III)		249	elbakerone, May 26
Historical Fiction : Need a Recommendation		30	atlargeintheworld, May 25
Reading the States : Reading about New York		44	Marchpane, May 20
What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home, April 2009 #2		160	elliepotten, May 12
Crime, Thriller & Mystery : Favorite Detectives		185	jnwelch, May 12
What Are You Reading Now? : What You Are Reading the Week of 4 April 2009		192	kara1560, April 21
Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night : Historical Horror Novels by Dan Simmons		17	KentonSem, April 20
What Are You Reading Now? : 2009 Your Best Five Reads of Quarter 1 (January - March)		117	narcissus_in_theory, April 15
Crime, Thriller & Mystery : Mysteries set in every US state?		94	amwmsw04, April 3
50 Book Challenge : sarahjanesandra's 2nd Year - Another 50		69	sarahjanesandra, March 22
The City and the Book : New York		13	Cecilturtle, March 17
Historical Fiction : American History - Birh of the Nation?		9	MarianV, March 8
Hogwarts Express : Game: But I've Never Read.......II		229	Mysterion, February 22
Hogwarts Express : Share Your TBR Pile		106	Kerian, February 13
999 Challenge : xicanti's 999		19	xicanti, February 6
The Green Dragon : January Reads		75	Ape, January 31
American History : Any TR Fans?		24	Garp83, January 30
888 Challenge : Carlos 888 in '08		128	CarlosMcRey, January 27
List Five Books Parlour Game : Occupations		10	lilithcat, January 18
Books I Hated : That Everyone Else Loved		63	mpalotay, January 12
Science Fiction Fans : Science Fiction And The Alternate History		45	timepiece, January 6
List Five Books Parlour Game : Starts with A, but not just A		29	MarianV, January 4
Reading Globally : Where in the World are You Now? December 2008		126	marietherese, January 4
50 Book Challenge : joycepa's reckless 80 in '08		314	Joycepa, January 1
What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today?--December 2008 #2		115	richardderus, January 1
999 Challenge : i.should.b.reading's 999 challenge		13	i.should.b.reading, December 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of 6 December 2008		191	ZanKnits, December 2008
75 Books Challenge for 2008 : Carlos' 75 in 2008		47	CarlosMcRey, December 2008
Reading Globally : Where in the world are you now? November		144	avaland, December 2008
Historical Fiction : Victorian England		35	margad, November 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : To re-read or not to re-read (revisited)		22	cornerhouse, November 2008
List Five Books Parlour Game : One Thing Leads to Another		249	Kasthu, October 2008
Book talk : More books like "The Historian?"		15	CarlosMcRey, October 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : Top Five Books 3rd quarter 2008: July - Sept.		78	MarianV, October 2008
Crime, Thriller & Mystery : Looking to delve into mystery/crime/thriller		14	loropetalum, August 2008
50 Book Challenge : Mdrmoore 75 book Challenge		18	mdrmoore, August 2008
List Five Books Parlour Game : The Five People You Wouldn't Meet in Heaven		34	angelrose, August 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : Top Five Books first quarter of 2008		119	rachbxl, July 2008
Crime, Thriller & Mystery : Message Board		186	RachelfromSarasota, June 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - May. 2008		236	annatapl, June 2008
Crime, Thriller & Mystery : Legal Mystery Series		66	jxnhole, June 2008
LT's list of great books you should read : Top 25		30	Joles, May 2008
Dormant: Book talk : what are some classics that have to do with psychology?		11	reconditereader, March 2008
Dormant: The Green Dragon : Best books, and worst books, that you read in 2007		61	margaretplays, February 2008
Dormant: What did YOU buy today? : January 2008 edition		51	alaskabookworm, February 2008
Dormant: Girlybooks : 'Women's Writing' - Just for women?		51	nohrt4me, January 2008
Dormant: Crime, Thriller & Mystery : What are you reading now? (cont.)		306	quartzite, January 2008
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 28 July 2007		188	lili12302002, October 2007
Dormant: Historical Fiction : Definition of 'historical fiction'?		13	margad, October 2007
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 1 September 2007		170	woodbear, October 2007
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Dormant: New authors first editions : Not a new author, but still a diamond...		13	VisibleGhost, July 2007
Dormant: Crime, Thriller & Mystery : Favorite Sherlock Holmes pastiches?		17	willmize, July 2007
Dormant: Historical Fiction : Great modern reads set in the 19th century anywhere...		42	avaland, June 2007
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 16 Dec 2006		139	GaryKurtz, May 2007
Dormant: What did YOU buy today? : Message Board		397	aluvalibri, April 2007
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 21 Apr 2007		136	Storeetllr, April 2007
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 7 Apr 2007		135	Laika, April 2007
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 3 Feb 2007		127	neekeebee, February 2007
Dormant: Book talk : Reading the States		39	crysreality, February 2007
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Help!! About Audio Books		25	sandragon, December 2006
Dormant: Historical Mysteries : And to start off... [[Caleb Carr]]		5	bibliotheque, August 2006

... to pass up. I did jump out of two books in recent memory: Killing Time by Caleb Carr (awful - nothing like his Alienist novels), and Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (I read the first two to three chapters and was rolling my eyes and complaining so much that I decided then and there to ...

... pretty much a wide open field, as you'll see from this list of some of the mystery and/or suspense fiction I've enjoyed: The Alienist, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (and sequel), The Talented Mr. Ripley, Alias Grace, Generation Loss, Out: A Novel, Smilla's Sense of Snow; Perfume ...

The Alienist by Caleb Carr Language: English (by a landslide); Runners-up: French, German Gender: Male 50.51%, Female 49.49% Alive: 447, Dead 312 Location: New York; Runners-up: London, Ankh-Morpork Average date: 1997 Neat idea, this post. I wish Librarything had a way of knowing ...

... kidnapps the child of a high ranking Spanish Official. The child's mother goes to Sara Howard who includes the crew from The Alienist the the pursuit of the kidnapper.

Linda, I couldn't agree more. The next book is more to your liking. I see you've read "The Alienist" This is the follow up, "The Angel of Darkness" Mike

... job of setting the tone and scene 6. As good, certainly. Too early to tell if I'll think it's the page-turner that The Alienist was 7. 28/752 - only 724 to go 8. It's an old MM PB, but in good condition and no one has written on it.

What do you think of the Alienist? I was sorely disappointed that Mr. Carr only wrote one sequel to it. I thought they were great.

I have purchased and repurchased the alienist four times. I now have 2 copies, in case I go mental and lend it out again.

Category 7: Fiction TBRs The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas The Truth About Lorin Jones, Alison Lurie The Alienist, Caleb Carr Trying to Save Piggy Sneed, John Irving Talking to the Dead, Helen Dumore Paradise, Toni Morrison Kissing the Witch, Emma Donoghue The Bl ...

... late 19th and early 20th century stuff. I LOVE Caleb Carr's early works. His more recent stuff, not so much. Like The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness. I like when an author can combine real and fictional characters so well, such as Teddy Roosevelt in these, and turn of the century ...

... Karen Maitland (Company of Liars), Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose), Michael Cox, Elizabeth Chadwick, Caleb Carr (The Alienist), Deanna Raybourn, Michelle Moran (Nefertiti), Kathleen Winsor (Forever Amber, though that one is a little more romance-y), Susanna Kearsley, CW Gortner (T ...

... Karen Maitland (Company of Liars), Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose), Michael Cox, Elizabeth Chadwick, Caleb Carr (The Alienist), Deanna Raybourn, Michelle Moran (Nefertiti), Kathleen Winsor (Forever Amber, though that one is a little more romance-y), Susanna Kearsley, CW Gortner (T ...

we're both strictly avoid when it comes to all the police shows. but i'll check out The Alienist anyway.

I enjoyed The Alienist a lot, too--interesting characters.

Oh, good recommendation in The Alienist! If he likes shows like CSI, he'll definitely enjoy this one about early police/criminology work.

In what time period were The Alienist and Angel of Darkness set? If not after 1900, then right around it. Those were pretty good novels, esp. the first ~ a good feel for New York, Teddy Roosevelt, etc., and good mysteries too.

Have fun with the Alienist. I thought that it and it's sequel were wonderful reads.

hey all! i'm starting off with these 3 books... The Lost City of Z by David Grann The Alienist by Caleb Carr Twilight by Stephanie Meyer i'll let you know how i come along xom

... count that as the first one. Then I've got: Whip Hand by Dick Francis for my library book club Lavinia by UKL The Alienist by Caleb Carr Something by Paul Park, about whom I've been hearing various raves lately. Of course, like many others, the likelihood that these will be the ...

... and caused Edgar Allan Poe to write a story about it: The Mystery of Marie Roget. The blurb said it was a mix between The Alienist and The Devil in the White City - two of my favorites. Samurai: The Code of the Warrior by Thomas Louis, Non-Fiction, Reference, BJs Warehouse An ...

... I really must recommend it to anyone who loves multi-layered, convoluted period mysteries. It brings to mind Caleb Carr's The Alienist and Dickens' Bleak House -- I think it is better than both though, I'll have to see how it all wraps up. SO impossible to figure out!

... them: The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr (And I'll be pretty surprised if it's not on my Best of 2009 list, too) The Alienist by Caleb Carr Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel Carnival by Elizabeth Bear Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier I don't count ...

... (Review) 25. White Sands, Red Menace 26. When I Knew 27. The Price Of Salt 28. Frozen In Time (review) 29. The Alienist 30. The Indifferent Stars Above (review) 31. The Strain (review) 32. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (book club) 33. Unwind 34. Into The Forest 35 ...

I have not read The Alienist but I have read Spaceship Medic.

I have not read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, but I have read The Alienist.

... set in New York in the 19th century; don't know if that's what you're looking for exactly): Heyday, by Kurt Anderson The Alienist, by Caleb Carr Antonio's Wife, by Jacqueline DeJohn Metropolis. by Elizabeth Gaffney The Queen of Bedlam. by Robert McCammon And I know you were ...

... past couple of weeks: I enjoyed The Angel of Darkness so much that I had to add Caleb Carr's first novel, The Alienist, to my Historical list. (It replaced Affinity by Sarah Waters, which I may add back on in the future). I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the other ...

I finished The Alienist yesterday afternoon, so I've now started in on Airborn by Kenneth Oppel. It's a reread; I'm going back over the first two books in the series in preparation for the third one, which the library just gave me. I'm so jealous of all of you who managed to snag The He ...

... place and its monsters are not without their appetite. Much the same might be said about Caleb Carr's entertaining The Alienist, which also features a city in which crime lords and authorities seem to be cut of the same cloth. This time, it's 1890's New York, though the police is not ...

I started The Alienist by Caleb Carr this morning. It's very good so far, but it hasn't yet drawn me in the way The Angel of Darkness did.

... this blasted calculator calculate a quartile. So I'm a little bit confused. I think we can pick up from "I haven't read The Alienist? So, I have read The Alienist, multiple times, a fabulous read if I may say so, But I have NOT read The Sparrow. Yet. Give me a couple of days. An ...

Oh sugar, I can't seem to follow the simplest rules today. Sorry about that. I haven't read The Alienist.

The Ambassadors by Henry James The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris L. West The Alienist by Caleb Carr Farmer in the Sky by Robert Heinlein The Number One Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

... From the Inside Out, by Michael John Carley Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes Agnes Grey, by Anne Bronte The Alienist, by Caleb Carr All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque

Historical Fiction 1. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 2. The Alienist by Caleb Carr 3. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant 4. Holy Fools by Joanne Harris 5. The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent 6. Dark Angels by Kareleen Koen 7. The Blacksto ...

... like bunnies. Oops, forgot to say I brought home Angel of Darkness for a quarter. Have to continue the story from The Alienist.

I'm in New York with The Alienist and we should catch the bad guy tonight. I'm also in DC with Tried By War and I'm really mad at McClellan (and, having read Team of Rivals last year at this time, I know I'm going to be mad at him again soon--infuriating fool).

... still stick with the way things were, as in trying to be as historically accurate. A good example is Caleb Carr's The Alienist. Alternate histories traditionally take a moment in history and play the What if? game, so what results is a departure from the historical record and can ...

5. Historical Fiction: The Dark Queen by Susan Caroll The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr The Alienist by Caleb Carr Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon Voyager by Diana Ga ...

Starting Tried By War and still reading The Alienist.

... Hillerman And three I don't think have been mentioned: Justin de Quincy Sharon Kay Penman Lazlo Kreizler (The Alienist) Caleb Carr Marcus Didius Falco Lindsey Davis (I love, love, love this series) touchstones very wonky as usual

I like historical horror fiction very much, as long as it's not only well-done, but intricate. Caleb Carr's The Alienist comes immediately to mind. You feel like you are right there in 1890's New York! Andrei Codrescu's The Blood Countess, about Elizabeth Bathory, is another that I ...

... my time in Vietnam with A Piece of My Heart, the Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam. My 'car' book is The Alienist which, so far, isn't grabbing me, though I find it a bit interesting. Also reading The Riders on the train.

... Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe), Martha Grimes, Elizabeth George (Inspector Lynley series), Caleb Carr's The Alienist, P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Earl Stanley Gardner (the Perry Mason books), Ellis Peter's Brother Cadfael series, Lindsey Davis's Falco series (set in imperial Rom ...

The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant Italian Days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison The Italian Secretary by Caleb Carr The Secretary of Dreams by Stephen King The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

... care for Labyrinth so maybe I'm not the best person to make a recommendation. Having said that, however, I'd suggest The Alienist by Caleb Carr (Not European, though. Takes place in New York) and perhaps The List of 7 by Mark Frost. I read it years ago when I had to weather a lengthy ...

In fiction, my favorites are: The Alienist Antonio's Wife Metropolis The Best of Everything Motherless Brooklyn The Bell Jar The Interpretation of Murder A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The House of Mirth Nonfiction: The Gangs of New York Honky A Pickpocket's Tale 7 ...

Thanks, everybody. alcottacre, I ended up associating The Alienist with The Name of the Rose had the quality of being novels in which the protagonists are trying to come up with modern detective techniques using then-current knowledge. I can see why people find Rose pretty impenetrable, ...

... I kept wanting him to get to the point. I suppose that's why I don't like murder mysteries. Right now I am reading The Alienist. Same problem. Get to the point!!!

... on reaching the 75 book mark, Carlos! Hope you reach the 100 point as well . . . Glad to hear that you enjoyed The Alienist. I really liked both it and the sequel The Angel of Darkness. On the other hand, I never could get anywhere with Name of the Rose. Oh, well - just goes ...

... short novel. Marquez writes something akin to a murder mystery, where the mysteries are not what you'd expect. 68. The Alienist This was a fun novel about an unlikely group of detectives trying to stop a serial killer in 1896 New York. It doesn't quite live up to the gold standard ...

The Alienist by Caleb Carr (3rd reading) Salem’s ‘Lot by Stephen King (3rd reading) The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy by Barbara Vine (2nd reading) The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett It was kind of a bad quarter…did a lot of re-reading (as you can see) since nothing else was ...

... the Bookman's books (Booked to Die, The Bookman's Wake, and about 3 others, so far). Good stuff. Also, Caleb Carr's The Alienist and Angel of Darkness

Lately I've been in a reading funk and so have been re-reading things I know I will like - The Alienist, Needful Things, Salem's 'Lot & Necroscope. Maybe after a few of these, new books will have some appeal again.

Well, I finally wrote up my review of The Alienist, which you can find here. mtilleman, how about reviewing The Roaring Nineties? I'm a fan of Stiglitz' work, and this is one I haven't read. Please choose from my Ardashir in Historical Fiction : Victorian England (Sep 15, 2008, 6:51am)

... one of the characters, The Tin Princess. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles is deservedly a classic. The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr are good, although set in New York, not London/England. Fingersmith and Affinity by Sarah Waters, author of Ti ...

25. The Alienist by Caleb Carr. Finished September 8, 2008 Mass Market Paperback 597 Pages 8436 Total Pages Read 337 Average Pages Read

41. The Alienist by Caleb Carr - finished 9/6/08 A serial killer is stalking New York in 1896, targeting boys who have been forced by poverty to become prostitutes. The narrator, a journalist, is drawn into ...

... This, Not That for Kids Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer Shape of Mercy Barry Strauss' The Trojan War Ulysses Found The Alienist Ultimate Hard Bastards Atonement Atlas Shrugged Anthem and the list goes on...

Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman The Mind of Adolph Hitler by Walter C. Langer The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr Henry VIII by Alison Weir Charles Manson by Andy Koopmans

Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr Falling Angels by Tracey Chevalier Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolf Angels all Over Town by Luanne Rice Our Town by Thornton Wilder

Grimscribe Thomas Ligotti El Criador de Gorilas (The Gorila Keeper) Roberto Arlt The Alienist Caleb Carr The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Tom Robbins

Ever since reading The Alienist by Caleb Carr I have wanted to learn more about T. R. to find out if his personality was anythin like it was represented there.

... only read one so far (Conspiracies), but it was so good I'll be reading the rest as soon as possible ~ and Caleb Carr's The Alienist and Angel of Darkness, which was one of the most intense mystery thrillers I've ever read and which was about the most evil character I can recall. If ...

... Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke A walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson The Other by Thomas Tryon The Alienist by Caleb Carr If I could include just one more (making it a top six) it would be The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue A good year so far I think.

... ehane. 2nd in the Kenzie/Gennaro series. Better than the first, if that's possible. This book is almost as scary as The Alienist and Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr, which are my standards against which I measure all other thriller mysteries. delves into the world of the true ...

I'm a big fan of F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack series. Thrillers with a supernatural backstory. Caleb Carr's The Alienist is excellent, especially if you like historical settings.

... of Rome by Livy Smith of Wooton Manor and Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien Roman Blood by Steven Saylor The Alienist by Caleb Carr The Tolkien Reader by J.R.R. Tolkien Patriot Games by Tom Clancy The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin The Coming of the King by Nik ...

... I can't even get through the audio CDs of LOTR. I read but disliked Sophie's World, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Alienist. Couldn't finish The Memory Keeper's Daughter. Read 1 1/2 pages of Ahab's Wife. Read one paragraph of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Read 20 pages of The ...

The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness

... Peach - Roald Dahl 21-Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin 22-My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell 23-The Alienist by Caleb Carr 24-Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving 25-Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

One I forgot - Caleb Carr But then I tried to read The Italian Secretary and I'm not so enthusiastic anymore.

16. The Alienist by Caleb Carr 17.State of Fear by Michael Crichton 18. The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton 19. Absolute Friends by John le Carre

... far with no luck, but I intend to try again. If I were you I'd definitely try it myself. Curiously, I'm currently reading The Alienist and finding it to be so wonderful. It is everything The Devil in the White City could have been but is not.

... Carl Hiaasen you'll love Lucky You! Jeri: If you liked The Angel of Darkness you should check out Caleb Carr's The Alienist!

... & the key of Solomon the King by A. Bothwell-Gosse The Italian secretary : a further adventure of Sherlock Holmes by Caleb Carr 100 vicious little vampire stories edt. by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

III Long Books 1 The Alienist 2 Gravity's Rainbow 3 The Magus 4 Perdido Street Station 5 Los Detectives Salvajes 6 Cien años de soledad (A Hundred Years of Solitude) 7 Moby Dick< ...

I would not classify the book as a “legal thriller” but Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr’s sequel to The Alienist, has a great court scene featuring none other than Clarence Darrow.

... it scared me. It did fill me with dread, though, as it dawned on me that people like that do exist! I believe The Alienist should be read first, and it is meant to be read first as it introduces the reader to all the characters he/she will find in the following book, The Angel of D ...

... Courage, jxnhole--bear up under the struggle! Its' worth it, and we're all pulling for you. :-) But have you read The Alienist yet? What's the group's opinion--should The Alienist be read before Angel of Darkness?

I requested it from my library today. I liked The Alienist, but it didn't make me automatically seek out more from Caleb Carr. We'll see if this one does.

... the book). Nerve wracking, to put it mildly. What I appreciate about this book is how differently it's structured from The Alienist. Normally, a writer gets a good approach, a formula that works and sticks to it. But Carr has done a totally different approach in Angel of Darkness.

#139 - jxnhole - The Alienist is on my all-time faves list. The sequel Angel of Darkness is an excellent read as well.

... Place of Execution”. It took a bit to get into, but now I’m hooked. Also, on Books-on-Tape, I’m listening to Caleb Carr’s “The Alienst”. Whoa... very good.

... be weaved throughout the story or used to bring to highlight the story. As an example, I think of one of my favorites; The Alienist and how the author Caleb Carr used Teddy Roosevelt to color the story; put it in historical perspective, add a delightful character we all know a little ...

hello Joycepa, I am new to this group and just read your excellent review on The Alienist, it seems a must to read it. I started my second book by Jonathan Kellerman, Bad Love. Has anyone read several of child psychologist's Delaware cases? My first one was The Murder Book. What is your ...

#71 aluvalibri: That's the sequel, correct? Thanks for the tip--I'll add it to my TBP list! I was hesitant, because The Alienist is a hard act to follow... I love the way Carr writes--you really get a feel for the era! I STILL can't get over the last paragraph/last sentence in The Alienis ...

#70> Joycepa, I loved The Alienist, but liked The Angel of Darkness even better. Did you read it? If not, do, you will enjoy it.

Just finished The Alienist which was excellent right up until the end, which was sort of anticlimactic for me. But I loved the ending itself. Somehow that last sentence of the book was perfect.

Now that I'm finished with The Alienist I'm moving on to David Copperfield. When I was young I had an abridged kids version of David Copperfield that I loved and read over and over. I'm amazed at how quickly all the characters and plot twists are coming back to me when I'm reading the real ...

I'm reading The Alienist. It is not grabbing my attention like I expected it too. dchaikin--Angle of Repose is one of my favorite books of all time. I haven't read any of the others on your list.

Just finished We Need to Talk About Kevin. Wow. Just....wow. Now I'm on to The Alienist by Caleb Carr.

... York is very much like a main character in the book. Books like The Bonfire of the Vanities, Motherless Brooklyn and The Alienist all spring to mind, as well.

#90 Oh, we must be twins separated at birth! ;D I love both Elvis Cole and Harry Dresden and thought The Alienist was wonderful! Have you read Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch mysteries yet? That's another series where I race out to get each new book that comes out.

... Harry Dresden novels. What can I say? I like private eye fiction even if the private eye in question is a wizard. The Alienist by Caleb Carr is excellent. I can't recommend Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series, though. Too depressing. Way, way depressing.

Ladybookworm and strandbooks, I read The Alienist years ago and really enjoyed it, even though I don't usually care much for detective-type novels. The historical angle made all the difference.

... I didn't get any reading in this week so it will probably be another week with this book. Ladybookworm--I'll be starting The Alienist soon for a book club. It looks pretty interesting.

... had much the same initial reaction to The Historian but kept at it in the hope that it would get better. Anyway, both The Alienist & The Red Tent are wonderful reads, well written and interesting both from a social as well as a historical viewpoint, and as you probably figured out are ...

... 1/3 of the way through now, and I'm really starting to enjoy it. After this, I have quite a choice! It'll either be The Alienist, The Fall of Hyperion, We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Red Tent or The Gormenghast Trilogy. How's that for diversity? *lol* Any suggestions about ...

... have read Light in August by Faulkner, followed by Truck: A Love Story and after The Samurai's Garden we are reading The Alienist.

... about 50 novels by women for each one by a man that I read. When I'm sick in bed, I enjoy things like Caleb Carr's The Alienist, but usually it's Virago Modern Classics and the like for me. My philosophy is simple: I know what it's like to be male, so I like to read novels that give me ...

#13 > You will not be disappointed. Both The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness are excellent.

#13 - Good to know. I wondered about The Alienist, but if the style was similar I wasn't going to bother. Maybe I will still give it a try. CMB

#12> cmbohn, I read the book and did not really like it. Having enjoyed The alienist and The angel of darkness, I thought The Italian secretary would be on the sema level. I was wrong.

cabegley, #26 We must be twins! I hated The Alienist too (and I like it when books are set in NYC).

I read The Alienist one day when I was home sick in bed, and that's a day of my life I'll never get back. My entire family raved about it, and I do like historical fiction, but this one did not do it for me. I agree with rebeccanyc on Eats, Shoots and Leaves. I didn't bother finishing it.

... an attempt at reading Tom Stoppard's Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Princess Bride, Caleb Carr's The Alienist, or Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London. Hopefully I will put aside enough time to read at least two of these.

... the first time in several months, I finished two books in as little as 3 days. With that excitement, I'm finally going read The Alienist by Caleb Carr. Hopefully, the LT reviewers pick a great book for me again!

... Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt. Once I'm done with that, I will return to either Everything is Illuminated or The Alienist.

After reading rave reviews on LT, I'm finally reading a copy of The Alienist by Caleb Carr. I picked it up from a book giveaway about two years ago, eventhough it didn't seem to appeal to me. I'm hope to finish Barak Obama's The Audacity of Hope sometime this week. I'm eager to start ...

... of Darkness by Caleb Carr and enjoying it a lot. About halfway through it, and so far think it's almost as good as The Alienist, which I loved.

... Angel of Darkness (touchstone trouble) by Caleb Carr and am already halfway though and enjoying it almost as much as The Alienist.

Oh yes! Caleb Carr's The Angel of Darkness, which follows The Alienist. I wish he wrote others in the same series, one for each character/narrator...

New York ~ Caleb Carr's The Alienist is a historical mystery set in New York City. (Edited to add Touchstones.)

... gift by an attorney I used to work with, and it was amazing! I also enjoyed Caleb Carr's novel about early New York, The Alienist. Mary Renault writes magnificent historicals about the ancient world. I don't know if McMurtry's Lonesome Dove would be considered a historical, ...

Here are some recommendations: The Alienist by Caleb Carr The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz Books by Edith Wharton The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle by Wash ...

... The Pit by Frank Norris for Chicago; Midnight in the garden of good and evil by John Berendt for Savannah; The alienist and The angel of darkness by Caleb Carr, Sleepless nights by Elizabeth Hardwick and Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz for New York. I hope ...

... for car trips. Sometimes listening to a book is the only way for me to get it done. My personal favorites have been the The Alienist and Life of Pi

Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch The Alienist by Caleb Carr just squeaks in under the deadline ...

... I didn't buy anything today...but 2 days ago, I bought a few books. 1) Memories of Ice by: Steven Erikson 2) The Alienist by: Caleb Carr --I read this several years ago and i loved it, but i lost my copy...saw it at Border's books, so I bought it 3) State of War: The Secret H ...

... books; the mix of detective and business acumen was unusual and enjoyable, I thought. I just finished Caleb Carr's The Alienist and found it very evocative of late 19th century NY as I imagine it was. The plot was nothing particularly new if you've read stories about serial killers ...

That is a great story. When I first started with first edtions my first one was The Alienist by Caleb Carr. I did not yet realize that I was a collector and lent it out to someone who spilled ink all over it. If that wasn't bad enough, then their dog ate the binding. I found another copy on ...

Ah, The Alienist. The book that proved that the historical mystery could be accurate, detailed, witty... and scarier than a three-course dinner with Hannibal Lecter. In my opinion both this and The Angel of Darkness are terrific historical thrillers and absolute must-reads for 1890s/1900s ...