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🗓️ 1 July 2013
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Craig and Andrew team up with their evil selves this week to read Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Well, not really. But in honor of our 20th episode, we did both read the book this week, mixing up our usual format a bit.
What follows is a discussion on the duality of man, abridged books, and that thing that happens when stories like this gloss over scientific explanations so as to avoid boring the audience.
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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 | So, did you ever read this book before? |
0:39.0 | I'd read the abridged version. |
0:42.0 | What does that even mean? Tell me what that means? |
0:45.0 | As a kid, I had the abridged versions of a bunch of books, which basically means they took all the hard words out and made the books a lot shorter. |
0:53.0 | Okay. And was it printed on those cardboard paper? |
0:58.0 | No. They're just hard covers, but with like 18 point font and really big margins. |
1:07.0 | Okay. I read Treasure Island and a couple others like that. |
1:11.0 | Yeah. Wait, did you literally just said this? |
1:14.0 | It was the hard cover ones, but they were like not really hard cover books. |
1:17.0 | No, they were hard cover books. They just said really big font and stuff. |
1:20.0 | Okay. How big were they? |
1:22.0 | I don't even know how big were they? |
1:24.0 | Like the size of like a paperback, though. |
1:27.0 | They were kind of bigger than that because they had to accommodate the really big fonts. |
1:31.0 | I remember I seem to remember a friend of mine growing up having some of these kind of Robert Lewis Stevenson. |
1:37.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I think they're pretty common because you can't get kids to read that stuff now. |
1:42.0 | No, it's a lot more complicated than you think. |
1:45.0 | Yeah, I tried to read. What did I try to read like the unabridged version of? |
1:49.0 | I think I tried to read Absalom Absalom. |
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