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[Book Club] The Devil In The White City, by Erik Larson, FINAL Session, ft. Lindsey Scharmyn

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The murder, intrigue, and a Fair that made history. Feel free to read and contribute to the official threads: Session One: https://tinyurl.com/4yjm6a7z Session Two: https://tinyurl.com/y685v8ub Session Three: https://tinyurl.com/5t4kctcz Session Four: https://tinyurl.com/mvc5pcc3 Final Session: https://tinyurl.com/5n9ycbwz If you want to be a part of the live sessions for books forthcoming please become a monthly sponsor on QuiteFrankly.tv! All monthly sponsors (no matter at which level of sponsorship) are given access to specialty programs like Book Club!

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You

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Yes and here we are another book club session another finale and tonight we're

1:07.6

going to get our general thoughts and highlights and get through the wonderful

1:13.7

thread and then some extras with our wonderful co-host and guest Lindsay

1:21.3

Charmin Lindsay it has it has finally happened we have finished the book how

1:28.1

are you feeling I think you're still muted there she is I'm kind of sad

1:36.2

honestly this has been so much fun and I love this book and every time I finish

1:39.9

any book I'm kind of sad this this book is even a different kind of sad

1:43.7

though because it's actually just so disturbing as well I know I know I know yeah

1:49.4

it's been so fun I'm glad we got to do this yes me too me too there's a lot

1:54.2

now you know this is a sad ending just to see the lamenting of a really good

2:01.6

party ending to see I mean it's still this last section of chapters that we were

2:09.0

reading together is just there's so much acceleration especially with the

2:13.8

attendance at the the fair in these these last months and weeks where we

2:20.0

we we get all of the inside baseball on that that incredible day where nearly a

2:26.2

million people came to the fair in one day where that was a day that George

2:32.8

Ferris actually wrote his Ferris wheel and observed from the top of the

2:37.0

Ferris wheel that there must have been a million people down there and the

2:41.5

the official toll is over 700,000 but still not that far off but I mean

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there's so much but the lamenting of it all going away the last ways that they

2:52.6

were really just like let's squeeze everything we get out of this what are some

2:55.6

of your favorite your favorite stories and your favorite parts from this this

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