Frankenstein: Volume III: Chapters 1-4

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4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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David, Heidi, Karen, and Joshua are back with more discussion of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In this episode they discuss Frankenstein's relationship with his father, whether the monster had to turn out evil, whether Frankenstein did the noble thing in not creating the "bride," and much, 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
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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,
0:38.0	and we're thankful you've taken the time to be a part of it. So thanks for that. Thanks for
0:42.1	listening. And with that, here is today's episode. Hello and welcome back to Close Reads on the
0:48.5	Close Reads Podcast Network. I'm David Kern, and we are here to discuss Frankenstein, as we have been
0:53.4	the last few weeks. And when I say we, I mean myself and here to discuss Frankenstein, as we have been the last few weeks.
0:59.4	And when I say we, I mean myself and Heidi White, of course, but then also our good friends,
1:02.3	Karen Swallow, Prior, and Joshua Gibbs. Karen, welcome back to the show.
1:03.8	Ready to be with you.
1:10.4	Josh, welcome back as well. You're in Idaho. You're up early to join us. So thank you for that. Absolutely. And Heidi, welcome
1:12.6	back as always. Thanks, David. You're the best. Wow. That is very kind. Okay. So we're here to
1:20.7	discuss Frankenstein. As I said, we're on to volume three. We're discussed chapters one through
1:25.6	four. And, uh, Karen, I was wondering if you could give us a little bit of a summary. So as we, and we're going to discuss chapters one through four. And Karen, I was wondering if
1:28.7	you could give us a little bit of a summary. So as we, as we noticed on the Facebook group,
1:32.7	lots of people just read this right away. They read the whole thing in one or two sittings.
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