The Lampshade
A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans

"If I were a human skin lampshade who might or might not have been constructed by a doomed Jewish shoemaker at the behest of a mad red-haired woman on a horse, and then found sixty years later by a dope fiend in an abandoned house after the worst storm in in a United States history..." Mark Jacobson......more

Not going to lie, somewhat disappointed. The book had a lot of tangents and I felt at times was not really focused on the lampshade. Occasionally, I thought the tangents were quite interesting, especially about the post-Katrina. However, some where just too much and could have been left out of the b......more

The Lampshade is not an emotionally easy read. It is the true story of the author’s quest to track down the origins of a lampshade created from human skin. The grisly artifact was purchased at a yard sale for a paltry sum; its seller was a drug-addicted pathological liar who apparently stole the lam......more

I was embarrassed to have checked this book out of my library. Also, I was surprised the library owned it—I mean, it's a creepy subject, and I live in a small town. Then I went and enjoyed the heck out of reading it. It isn't just that Mark Jacobson writes well. He has a great voice. Much of the ple......more

I have never read a book quite like this, nor seen anything quite like it. The plot centers on a lampshade bought in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, bought by a character named Skip Henderson at a garage sale. He asks "What's this thing made of, anyhow?" The man answers "That's mad......more