Frankenstein: The Final Chapters
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, David, Heidi, and special guests Karen Swallow Prior and Joshua Gibbs discuss the final pages of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Topics of conversation include whether justice was served in the story, whether the ending is satisfying, the eery similarities between Shelley's life and the book's ending, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, David Kern here. Welcome to Close Reeds. Before we get into the show today with our special |
| 0:04.7 | guests, Karen Swallow Pryor and Joshua Gibbs, who are joining Heidi White and I for our discussion of |
| 0:09.0 | Frankenstein. I wanted to remind you about how you can join the conversation. Head over to |
| 0:12.8 | Facebook, search for Close Reads in that search bar, and you can join the conversation over on the |
| 0:16.5 | Close Reads Podcast discussion group. And over on Instagram, you can follow us at Close Reeds Podcasts. |
| 0:20.9 | We also have our newsletter, which is close reads.substack.com. |
| 0:24.4 | And we have bonus episodes and some sweet show swag over at patreon.com slash close |
| 0:30.2 | reads, where we are currently discussing crime and punishment a little bit at a time. |
| 0:34.7 | The Close Reeds audience is the greatest audience in the podcast world, and we're |
| 0:38.4 | thankful you've taken the time to be a part of it. So thanks for that. Thanks for listening. And |
| 0:42.6 | with that, here is today's episode. Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds. I'm David Kern, |
| 0:49.6 | and I'm here with Heidi White and of course Karen Swallow Pryor and Joshua Gibbs, and we are here to discuss Frankenstein. |
| 0:56.8 | We've come to the end of our journey. |
| 0:58.9 | We're here to discuss the final pages, the final chapters of this classic story. |
| 1:04.0 | First, of course, how are you all doing? |
| 1:05.8 | Karen, how are you? |
| 1:07.6 | I'm good. |
| 1:08.7 | I'm actually gearing up to start faculty orientation at my new school, |
| 1:13.9 | Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. The semester is starting right around the corner. |
| 1:19.8 | So it feels like the end of a podcast and the end of the summer is near too. |
| 1:24.1 | The summer that never really happened but yet happened at the same time. Yeah. |
| 1:29.1 | Yeah. Yeah. Well, you said beforehand that you were, you got out of the pool to come do this. So, |
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