Ep 018 - Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2013

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

"You know Frankenstein's the name of the doctor, not the monster - right?"

Despite decades of metal bolts and flat green foreheads muddying the waters, Mary Shelley's original Frankenstein has endured. So much so that it almost seems old hat to correct people for thinking that lumbering monstrosities in big heavy boots are called Frankensteins.

Turns out there's still plenty to learn from Shelley's Modern Prometheus. On this week's episode, we discuss the finer points of creature creation, bum out over Nature vs. Nurture, and answer some of your questions.

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0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,
0:05.0	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.0	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to Overdo a podcast about the books that you've been meeting to read.
0:40.0	My name is Craig and my name is Andrew and if you didn't know already, each week we take a new book and we read it and then we talk about it.
0:47.0	And generally there are classics or contemporary classics, books that people know about.
0:53.0	We've done one or two that maybe people don't know as much about and that's sort of like books that we have laying around.
1:01.0	We just assume that everybody has read all the read and not read all the same books.
1:06.0	Wait, that doesn't make any sense.
1:09.0	Who's to say that everyone has read the classics? I think everyone wants to read the classics but then...
1:14.0	Well that was that never actually get around.
1:17.0	That was that great quote from Mark Twain a couple of episodes back where he was like the definition of a classic is the book that everyone wants to have read but no one wants to read.
1:26.0	Which is basically this podcast in a nutshell.
1:29.0	That's why Cliffs Notes exist.
1:32.0	So we hope that if you're joining us, you either want to learn about these books so that maybe you don't have to read them or you have read them and want to hear what a bunch of neo-fights think about them.
1:43.0	That's basically my elevator pitch for this show.
1:47.0	16 or 17 episodes in.
1:50.0	Oh god.
1:52.0	Some tea and some we've done a few.
1:55.0	Yeah I think our last episode which was Winnie the Pooh was episode 17.
2:00.0	And we actually got a question from listener Susanna who wants to know about the animals in A.A.
2:10.0	Moon's Winnie the Pooh universe in the Poohverse.
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