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Well, hello.

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It's like they can't see you strategically grasping your cup of hot chocolate.

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I was grimace smiling. It was...

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Listen, hot chocolate brings out

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joy in me.

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Especially when it's in a Halloween themed mug.

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That's so true. I love it when it's at like a sporting event, like a football game. It's like

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not great hot chocolate, but it's like outside and it's cold.

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Have you attended a sport?

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I don't think I've ever been to a football game where it was cold enough.

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Oh, I suppose because you're in Texas.

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That's so unfortunate.

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The only sporting event I've been to that's cold other than like hockey, which in Texas is not frequent,

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is like baseball if you go early enough.

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The great cultural divide. That's so sad because cold football games are so nice.

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But chili, then...

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Dang.

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I just didn't anticipate you not having experienced that before.

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Well, no. That's a lie. High school football games.

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Okay, I haven't been to like any major like...

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I mean, I assume they... I don't know what like the college... I didn't care about sports in college.

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I went to a few football games, but not...

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Yeah, we were like D3 and it wasn't great. It was definitely chili.

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It was definitely chili because I mean, anytime starting from like October, like fall sports would get...

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Chilli.

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Okay, so I take it back. It was cold.

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But not...

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Hot chocolate level cold?

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By the... I mean, it got pretty late into this season.

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Mm-hmm.

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But...

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I'm more into the hotter part of the football season.

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Yeah, that's unfortunate.

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Where it was too hot to wear our marching band uniforms.

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Hot football does not compute. It just doesn't sound right.

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I mean, it happens obviously like it was like it's now only fall right now.

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Every football game I remember going to is...

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Like hot.

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Ick.

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Me no like the hot at this moment in time.

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It's finally fall.

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Me no like the hot ever, but here we are.

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So true.

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You would not believe the joy I have experienced at it being like 75 degrees outside.

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I could imagine.

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I could imagine because it's finally now like we've had like frost alerts and everything.

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I'm like hit me.

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I know it literally went from 90 degrees to 50 overnight.

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And then now we're at frost alerts.

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Oh.

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Just funny.

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Okay, Lars just dropped to like high of 74 and I was like, yes!

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I mean, that's what honestly I would love it to be like 65, 70 for a while.

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But that's not going to happen.

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Like it was like actually cold the other day and I was like, oh.

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I may have grown a boss too close to the sun or too far from the sun.

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And then it's like you want to not break out your big jacket.

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So then you're in like a sweatshirt and that's not warm enough.

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But then sometimes it's like hot in the day, but then cold in the morning.

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So you're like sweatshirt shorts.

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It's a whole temperature regulation.

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That's when layering kicks in.

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Big fan of layering.

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Because layering is good.

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Texas isn't really good with cold weather, but when it does start to get cold, it will be hot in the afternoon.

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That's the worst.

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You will be so cold in the morning and you're like, oh no.

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Yeah, or like all the stores will have like the heat cranked.

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So then you wear your cute, like cold winter outfit to like go shopping or whatever.

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And then you walk in, you're like, I am 99 degrees.

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And it doesn't feel great.

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And you have to like deal with your heavy coat.

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Weather.

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So fun.

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Well, I don't have a transition.

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But.

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Nope.

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Yeah.

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There's nothing really.

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They don't.

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I don't quite know how to.

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Welcome to Romancy TBR.

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We do non sequiturs exclusively.

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Yes, we do.

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I am Hannah.

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And I am Caroline.

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And we haven't introduced ourselves in so many episodes.

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No, no, that's fine.

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That's cool.

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That's quirky of us.

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Our four listeners know who we are.

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They know who we are.

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Yeah.

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And we're like, I'm not totally counts.

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Exactly.

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And if you're a new, well, you picked an episode.

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Sure did.

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You picked an episode.

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Because I mean, we agree today.

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We both enjoyed this book.

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But what a wild book.

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This is a book that like if somebody reads it and they're like, I really hated that.

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I'm like, fair enough.

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You know what I mean?

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I'm not going to argue with you because you either are like, wow, this is so on brand for my like humor and sense of enjoyment, or you're like, that was weird.

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And I don't judge anybody who does feel that way.

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And there are so many angry reviews of this book.

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It honestly, you know, I can read them with a smile because they're funny.

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But I'm also just like, ghouls who get it, get it.

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Ghouls who don't, don't.

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That's so true.

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I will also say the title, cover, general vibe of the description, do give enough that if you're like angry finishing it, I'm like, what did you expect this book to be like?

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Yeah, I so much agree.

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Before we get any farther, we are reading Angelica Frankenstein Makes Her Match by Sally Thorne.

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I read it last year around a campfire.

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That was a great vibe.

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Weather.

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It was like getting cool at night.

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It's like in the summer.

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You know.

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Yeah.

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Speaking of weather.

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So I had read this one last year also.

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This is a reread for both of us.

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But this time I was like, I should reread Frankenstein.

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I saw that.

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I was like, ooh, I know what she's doing.

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Reading Angelica Frankenstein.

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Because like I read it in high school, but that was many years ago.

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And also like things I read in high school.

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I don't remember.

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My brain wasn't fully developed.

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I was just regurgitating what the English teacher said.

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I don't know.

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So I remembered very little of the plot.

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By the way, if you have an audible subscription, it's free.

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Dan Stevens narrates it.

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And low key.

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Like I still don't love the book.

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I love it.

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I'm just like, I don't know.

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And then I read the book.

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It's like, I'm just interested.

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Like sometimes it just got boring and I was like, Mary Shelley.

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I respect you.

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Oh, I never.

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I couldn't get through Dracula.

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Because it got really boring.

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And I was like,

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Maybe I'll get there's an audible version of that one with.

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Alan Cummings and Tim Curry.

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Oh.

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Well, Tim Curry is narrating.

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Ooh.

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I love them.

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So maybe we'll give Dracula a try.

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I love him so much.

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I might go back because listening to Frankenstein, I was like, I wonder.

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If I had figured out audio books in high school,

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What those English classes would have been like.

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Anyway.

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I mentioned this because number one.

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Not a lot of.

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I was thinking maybe she was like playing on things from the text in this one.

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That would be interesting.

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No, there's almost no similarities.

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They're in England.

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That's not the case in Frankenstein.

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Their parents are both dead.

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Yeah, they're in.

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Is it German somewhere?

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Like Switzerland, Germany.

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They move around.

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He's in.

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They're in like Germany for part of it.

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He ends up in Ireland at one point.

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Whatever.

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The framing device technically is in like the Arctic.

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So.

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It's like.

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Literally no part of this is accurate to the actual Frankenstein.

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I mean, she does play on it because you get to the end with Mary.

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We'll get there.

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Yeah.

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And so it's clearly not supposed to be that.

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But I bring this up because the romantics.

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Fucking love nature.

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And whether is like a huge thing in that book.

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Nature and weather.

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Because Victor is always going off when he's going crazy.

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And then like nature will bring him back to himself and he likes to go to the

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frozen mountains because according to spark notes analysis,

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he goes to like freeze his guilt, whereas the creature.

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Prefers like springtime because he wants the warmth and like.

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Sunlight.

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There was just a lot.

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And there were a lot of just like, let's go talk about the beauty of nature.

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And I was like, fair enough.

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I feel like we're doing this a lot.

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But.

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I mean, you can't argue with that.

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They were going to the lakes where all the poets went to die.

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And they still belong.

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They did in fact go to a well, maybe it wasn't the lake.

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He gets.

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No, there's others.

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A lake for a big chunk of it.

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He goes out and floats on the lake at night.

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Just want to feel something.

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Honestly. Okay.

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You know, I can get behind that.

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Except for muskies.

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And he could maybe bite you and I wouldn't like that.

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They like the night.

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Oh, my.

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Yeah. Big fish.

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Oh, well, you're in a boat.

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So.

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I guess I don't know why I was picturing him just like in the lake, like floating.

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Like.

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No, he was in a boat.

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He was like, okay.

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On the lake.

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Okay, that makes a lot more sense.

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He takes a boat out.

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And then at one point he does take a boat out to sink all the pieces of the female Frankenstein

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monster he was making.

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Because the creature has those chapters where he's like, I am miserable and eloquent.

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Make me a mate.

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Direct quote.

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I've never read the book.

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My only.

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Frank.

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No.

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Oh, no.

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We didn't.

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My English in high school, we didn't do a lot of.

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You had read it.

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English major.

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No.

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It never actually came up in my college curriculums.

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All right.

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Let's back up and give a brief overview of Frankenstein in case other folks haven't read

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Frankenstein.

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All I know is from.

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Zoom through this.

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Wizards of Waverly Place, I think.

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I don't.

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And the few Frankenstein movies I've seen and the Scooby Doo Frankenstein.

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Okay.

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I don't know if you've read it, but I can't rely on none of those because you think for

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yourself, I know what Frankenstein is about.

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And then you read it.

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And it's like a story within a story within a story because you're reading letters from

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this guy who's like on an Arctic expedition to his sister.

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And they see this giant figure on like a sled being pulled by huskies in the night and it

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disappears.

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And then the next day they come upon a sled on like a floating ice, you know, turned to

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ice and like most of the dogs are dead and the guy is half dead, but it's a different

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guy.

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It's not the like eight foot guy they saw before.

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It's a different guy.

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And eventually he tells his story.

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So it's this guy writing letters to his sister, recording the letter.

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I mean, recording what Victor Frankenstein is telling him about his life.

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And then also telling us what the creature says at one point.

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So there's a lot of storytelling going on.

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So was Victor Frankenstein the half dead one with his dogs?

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Yeah.

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So he's bringing Victor onto the boat and he's like, beware, you are also a guy in search

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of knowledge.

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Learn from me and don't follow this tragic fate.

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And then he proceeds to launch into like a really long detailed explanation of his life

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and his parents and how his mom's dad died and his dad, Rhett took her in, but then he

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married her and they were so in love, but they were helping people.

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And it depends on the version, because in the original version, Elizabeth is his cousin,

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but in the revised version, she's like a random orphan that they take in who's from noble

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parents, but she's been stuck with this poor fan.

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It's a whole thing.

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They bring her in.

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Did Mary Shelley revise it or did someone just have the idea?

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I think Mary Shelley revised it.

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I was like, so somebody's going to revise?

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No, I don't think anybody.

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I mean, I don't know.

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That's why I was like, that's a lot of-

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I'm pretty sure it was her.

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Okay, that makes more sense.

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Anyway, and then he has these other siblings and he grew up and this best friend, he's

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important later and he grows up really into the natural sciences, but he's reading like

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crack scientists.

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That's not true.

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Like really old natural scientists who have been very much disproven.

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And then his mom dies.

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Then he goes to college and at college, he gets really into natural science and mathematics

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and chemistry and he has these great professors and he launches into his studies and he gets

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super into it and he figures out the secret of life.

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And then he sets about to create or animate a being and he succeeds and it opens his eyes

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and he is so horrified.

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Like he's so scared.

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The college to grave robbing to animating corpses pipeline is strong.

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I felt compelled.

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Well, in Augustus Everett's case, it was, no, just kidding.

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He was a grave digger to college pipeline.

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Yeah, we've all been there.

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So he reanimates this sewn together corpse.

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He realizes his folly because he's absolutely disgusted and horrified.

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He's like, oh no, what have I done?

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He runs into his other room, tries to go to sleep, which is so relatable, by the way,

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to just immediately be like, I'm going to go to bed.

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That's actually so true.

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He wakes up, the creature is in his room, he freaks out, he just goes and wanders around

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the town at night.

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Boom, his best friend is there.

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His best friend wasn't allowed to come to college with him because of his dad.

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That's a whole thing.

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But now he's here and he's going to college.

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He doesn't tell his best friend what's going on, but they make it back to his apartment

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and the creature is gone.

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And then he falls into like an intense feverish sickness for months, as you do.

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And his friend nurses him through it and then he's like, hey, your family really wants you

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to come home.

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He's like, bet, it's been years, I'll go home.

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Then he gets a letter.

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Turns out his youngest brother has been murdered.

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His youngest brother has been strangled in the woods.

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He makes it home.

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It turns out this girl that she came to live with the family because her mom hated her,

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but then all the mom's other kids died.

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So she called her back home.

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It was a whole thing.

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Now she's back living with the family again, so she was raised kind of with these kids.

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She was found with this portrait of the mother that the brother who'd been murdered had on

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him at the time.

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So she's been accused of his murder, which is wild because Elizabeth, the cousin that

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he's supposed to marry, it's like, no way was it her.

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Victor goes out to see where they found the body, comes face to face with the monster.

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He knows full well this dude murdered this kid.

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Does he say anything at the trial?

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No, she's hanged for the murder of this kid.

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Victor is like, oh, I'm so filled with guilt.

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And he was supposed to marry.

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Oh, no, no, no, this is a different girl.

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He's supposed to marry Elizabeth.

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Okay, so that's not Elizabeth.

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Justine is the one that was accused of the murder and is hanged, even though she definitely

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didn't do it.

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Where does the story even go from there?

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Truly I don't remember.

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He's wracked with guilt.

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The creature shows up at random times.

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Oh, he felt he felt so terrible that his father is like, we got to get you out of here.

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So they go hang out at their like vacation estate.

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This is where he boats out onto a lake a lot.

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He runs into the monster.

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The monster is now eloquent.

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He is like, oh, my great creator.

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Not great.

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Oh, my creator, how could you have created me and abandoned me thus?

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I am miserable.

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I am lonely.

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Come with me to my cave where I will tell you of my life thus far.

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And then you get his story where basically he like runs off into the woods and every

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time he comes upon people, they freak out because he's terrifying.

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So he goes and hides in a hubble that's like attached to this little poor family's house

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and like watches through a crack in the wall for months and like learns their whole family

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history, which is a whole thing because they're like exiled from France.

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And then there's this Turkish girl who they helped her father escape from Pritz.

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So that's like a whole other side story.

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He learns to read and speak because they were teaching her English.

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So he learns how to speak English.

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He learns world history.

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He steals some books and reads them.

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So he's constantly referencing Paradise Lost.

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Like he talks about how he is both Adam and Satan in this scenario.

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Well, there you go.

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So you and the creature have something in common.

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Anyway, then he's like, maybe if I go talk to these guys, like the dad is blind, maybe

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they'll be nice to me because he just like craves kindness.

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They don't.

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They aren't nice and they freak out.

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Didn't anticipate that.

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They move out of the house.

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He burns it down.

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He's very upset.

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Well, I can't blame them.

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He swears vengeance on all of mankind.

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He murders that kid.

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Actually, he might have murdered the kid before.

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No, I don't think so because he finds out that he's related to Frankenstein.

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So he's like, well, gotta kill you.

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He puts the picture from the kid on the girl.

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He finds her sleeping in a barn and just like gives her that.

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Not really sure why, but he does.

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Gets her hanged for murder.

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And then he's like, anyway, I told you this whole story and how miserable I am so that

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you will make me a female because I will not be evil and vengeful and lonely and murder

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people if I have a mate because we can love each other and I will just take her to South

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America with me and we will go live in by ourselves.

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And Victor Frankenstein is like, I will not be making another one of you.

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You are a monstrosity and I hate you.

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And he's like, father, why have you abandoned me?

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And he's like, no, you, you got to make me a wife because then I can leave.

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And Victor's like, you know what, fine, I will make you a wife.

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So then he goes off with his friend, Henry, the one that was at university with him, because

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he's got to go talk to some other scientists about some revolutionary new research that

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he needs to build this wife.

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Oh, also, he's going to marry Elizabeth when he gets back.

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So he goes off to do this.

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He feels really guilty about it because he doesn't want to, but he's like, oh, I must.

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He goes off, he starts to build her.

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And then when he's part of the way done, he looks up in the monster's been like he followed

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him all the way to like Scotland or wherever he was.

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And he was like watching him through the window.

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And then he realizes he can't go through this because what if she is just as evil as he

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is and she didn't agree to go off to South America.

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So what if she just like unleashes herself on mankind?

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Like what would happen then?

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And he's like, oh, I can't.

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So he like tears it apart.

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And then the monster is like, I will be with you on your wedding night and disappears into

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the woods because he's super fast and scary.

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And then he rose out into the ocean and like drops all the body parts and stuff in the

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water because he's intending to leave with his friend.

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And then he gets stuck in these winds and he gets blown onto Ireland's shores.

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And the Irish people are like, what's up, my guy?

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You got to go talk to the magistrate because somebody was murdered here last night.

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And we're pretty sure it was you.

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And he's like, I just got here.

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So he goes and they suspect him and they're like, here's the body.

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Guess who it is.

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It's the best friend.

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So he falls into yet more months of feverish sickness upon finding the monster has murdered

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his best friend.

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Eventually, his dad comes and gets him and takes him home.

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He marries Elizabeth.

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Guess who gets murdered on their wedding night?

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It's Elizabeth by the monster.

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And now Victor is wandering around trying to confront the monster to kill it.

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Also his dad died.

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He technically has one more brother.

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We never talk about the other brother again.

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So now he's wandering around.

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He followed him all the way up into the Arctic.

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Hence he ended up on this boat.

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Then he dies.

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Victor just dies.

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He's like, hey, my guy, if I die, I need you to take this monster out.

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Don't listen to him.

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He's very eloquent and will make you feel bad for him.

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But he's evil.

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And then he dies.

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And then the guy comes in and the monster is lamenting over the corpse.

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And then he's like, don't worry about it.

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I'm going to go build myself a funeral pyre.

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And that'll be the end of that.

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And then he disappears into the ice.

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Monster.

463
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Yeah.

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He goes to go throw himself on a pyre.

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So natural conclusion.

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There's your crash course.

467
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Spark Notes Frankenstein.

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There is a lot of very long monologues in there and discussions about nature and mankind

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and humanity and what it is to be a monster who has no connection to humanity or any other

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being who is not afraid of him.

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There are all of these discussions about like he rescued a little girl from drowning in

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the stream and the person she was with shot him because he thought he was attacking the

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girl.

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And so he's like, why am I condemned when all I did was help?

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All these things.

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Interesting.

477
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However, not even a little bit connected really to Angelica Frankenstein, except that it's

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like they put people back together and reanimate them.

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And have names.

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Victor and then there's Elizabeth.

481
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Yeah, Lizzie.

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And then I do think the the Adam.

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Adam would be the name.

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Like that's a nod to him in the original referencing how he is Adam but also Satan.

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How he's Adam but also Satan.

486
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Well that's his whole thing.

487
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That's just a good line.

488
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He was Adam but also Satan.

489
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Have they ever made a Frankenstein musical because that just very much sounds like it

490
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lends itself to like very dramatic singing about being a monster among humans.

491
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Like I don't know of it but I wouldn't be surprised.

492
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I'd be surprised if it didn't exist.

493
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Frankenstein, a new musical.

494
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When?

495
00:21:42,380 --> 00:21:46,980
But when was this?

496
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Premiered 2007.

497
00:21:48,980 --> 00:21:53,020
Yeah that tracks 2007, crazy times.

498
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That was nine.

499
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Wow.

500
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I'm trying to find the creature's tail parts one, two, and three.

501
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There's one song called Why.

502
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Right, that kind of, yeah that fits the vibe.

503
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Why?

504
00:22:11,620 --> 00:22:12,620
Yeah this makes sense.

505
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Why not it's got to be a depressing musical.

506
00:22:16,980 --> 00:22:17,980
Yeah.

507
00:22:17,980 --> 00:22:18,980
Yeah.

508
00:22:18,980 --> 00:22:19,980
Damn.

509
00:22:19,980 --> 00:22:24,500
Well I think Sally Thorne said this was kind of like fan fiction.

510
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Oh yeah.

511
00:22:25,540 --> 00:22:26,540
So like that.

512
00:22:26,540 --> 00:22:32,340
And I know she was very big on being like this is not Frankenstein, this is not a retelling.

513
00:22:32,340 --> 00:22:37,020
Like do not criticize this on the basis of this not being Frankenstein.

514
00:22:37,020 --> 00:22:39,020
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

515
00:22:39,020 --> 00:22:40,300
And it was not.

516
00:22:40,300 --> 00:22:41,300
No.

517
00:22:41,300 --> 00:22:42,300
Does not sound like it.

518
00:22:42,300 --> 00:22:47,420
It sounds like I'm probably just good having listened to your Spark Notes version because

519
00:22:47,420 --> 00:22:49,420
that honestly, that was very compelling.

520
00:22:49,420 --> 00:22:53,460
Yeah, you compelled me but I don't think the rest, like I don't think the monologues of

521
00:22:53,460 --> 00:22:54,460
nature.

522
00:22:54,460 --> 00:22:55,460
Five minute Frankenstein.

523
00:22:55,460 --> 00:22:57,860
Yeah, yeah.

524
00:22:57,860 --> 00:23:03,380
I don't think I need any more, but I enjoyed what I got.

525
00:23:03,380 --> 00:23:10,940
But I do want more of Angelica Frankenstein and I will be so angry if people being upset

526
00:23:10,940 --> 00:23:16,220
about a fun book makes it not happen because Sally is like I will write a second one if

527
00:23:16,220 --> 00:23:18,780
people want it and like Sally I'm people I want it.

528
00:23:18,780 --> 00:23:20,300
A second one what?

529
00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:22,500
Of this, like she'd write it in the same world.

530
00:23:22,500 --> 00:23:23,500
Oh.

531
00:23:23,500 --> 00:23:30,180
Yeah, so it's like she's she was like open and willing but I don't know how the perception

532
00:23:30,180 --> 00:23:36,620
was like critical besides Goodreads because Goodreads is flawed.

533
00:23:36,620 --> 00:23:39,500
The Kindle rating was very high so that made me happy.

534
00:23:39,500 --> 00:23:42,580
So I'm like maybe.

535
00:23:42,580 --> 00:23:46,360
But I would love more in this world because Sally Thorne reading historical is just something

536
00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:48,780
I didn't know would ever exist.

537
00:23:48,780 --> 00:23:50,980
And it was so she's so weird.

538
00:23:50,980 --> 00:23:58,140
It tracks so much like all of her books are just weird.

539
00:23:58,140 --> 00:24:00,740
But this one obviously was the weirdest.

540
00:24:00,740 --> 00:24:04,900
But like it's so her and I'm just like wow.

541
00:24:04,900 --> 00:24:11,380
It makes a lot of sense because she has she has like a giant or I suppose miniature I

542
00:24:11,380 --> 00:24:16,260
don't really know dollhouse and it's Blackthorne Manor which is the manor in the book.

543
00:24:16,260 --> 00:24:20,660
That's how the book was started was from the the dollhouse that she had.

544
00:24:20,660 --> 00:24:25,780
And then I think during COVID quarantine she was spending a lot of time with the dollhouse

545
00:24:25,780 --> 00:24:30,460
and was like why don't I just write a really banging book about this dollhouse and I was

546
00:24:30,460 --> 00:24:35,860
like yeah why don't you and she did.

547
00:24:35,860 --> 00:24:42,420
I just also the narrator before we say anything about the actual plot I loved the narrator

548
00:24:42,420 --> 00:24:44,460
I thought she was great.

549
00:24:44,460 --> 00:24:47,540
Just a fantastic story.

550
00:24:47,540 --> 00:24:55,300
The pacing was so weird but I was like for it nothing in that book did I anticipate.

551
00:24:55,300 --> 00:24:57,620
Well that's true.

552
00:24:57,620 --> 00:24:59,980
That's true and relatable.

553
00:24:59,980 --> 00:25:00,980
Yeah.

554
00:25:00,980 --> 00:25:06,260
I and then I was like sobbing when I first read it and it still makes me emo and I'm

555
00:25:06,260 --> 00:25:08,900
just like I didn't anticipate that either.

556
00:25:08,900 --> 00:25:10,940
It's like what?

557
00:25:10,940 --> 00:25:17,820
Yeah it did make me tear up.

558
00:25:17,820 --> 00:25:18,820
Yeah.

559
00:25:18,820 --> 00:25:22,740
There's the one I think it's when Angelica is like okay we gotta let him go.

560
00:25:22,740 --> 00:25:23,740
I was like who?

561
00:25:23,740 --> 00:25:30,020
Yeah and it's I think it's like the found family a lot of times like gets me and like

562
00:25:30,020 --> 00:25:36,220
she obviously had her original family but like I think like recognizing some of the

563
00:25:36,220 --> 00:25:37,220
servants.

564
00:25:37,220 --> 00:25:38,340
No but the original family pissed me off too much.

565
00:25:38,340 --> 00:25:39,340
You didn't like them?

566
00:25:39,340 --> 00:25:44,460
No no no here's the thing I can see like a certain level of Angelica being you know

567
00:25:44,460 --> 00:25:48,900
kind of spoiled not always thinking about other people but she was never at no point

568
00:25:48,900 --> 00:25:53,620
was I like yeah they're right like she's super spoiled and needs to get she just had to kind

569
00:25:53,620 --> 00:25:58,180
of learn to like look at little be a little bit less selfish but she was never like.

570
00:25:58,180 --> 00:25:59,180
No I agree.

571
00:25:59,180 --> 00:26:03,740
No I enjoyed her transition from like yeah a little less selfish but yeah.

572
00:26:03,740 --> 00:26:06,020
But I was like Mary what is going on here?

573
00:26:06,020 --> 00:26:09,580
I mean Mary I think of anybody is the only one who really has room to talk because she's

574
00:26:09,580 --> 00:26:15,540
stuck like looking buckets of water around but even so I was like okay a little harsh

575
00:26:15,540 --> 00:26:19,700
a little like I always knew you were heartless that seems like a lot and then there's the

576
00:26:19,700 --> 00:26:24,860
part where she's upset anyway and then she comes in and has found Lizzie replacing her

577
00:26:24,860 --> 00:26:28,700
as Victor's assistant and is upset and she's like I gotta get out of here and Victor's

578
00:26:28,700 --> 00:26:34,940
like oh she's just looking for attention like always I was like Victor the audacity completely

579
00:26:34,940 --> 00:26:39,780
unfounded I don't know where you're getting this so that made me mad.

580
00:26:39,780 --> 00:26:44,980
Because I think Victor is supposed to be like likable but also extremely unlikable.

581
00:26:44,980 --> 00:26:48,820
Sure which like the OG Victor Frankenstein the worst.

582
00:26:48,820 --> 00:26:49,820
Yeah.

583
00:26:49,820 --> 00:26:50,820
So.

584
00:26:50,820 --> 00:26:54,060
Yeah because I never like disliked him but I was definitely like on Angelica's side

585
00:26:54,060 --> 00:26:57,900
throughout the book you know like I had fun with it like I enjoyed what his character

586
00:26:57,900 --> 00:27:03,780
like did because other things happened but I was definitely on Angelica's side.

587
00:27:03,780 --> 00:27:07,060
No I didn't dislike Victor.

588
00:27:07,060 --> 00:27:11,140
He was the worst at times but he was funny so I was like okay.

589
00:27:11,140 --> 00:27:13,860
Like any older brother yeah.

590
00:27:13,860 --> 00:27:18,940
But it just the sheer amount of like the shit that Angelica got for not a lot I was like

591
00:27:18,940 --> 00:27:21,380
why are we attacking this girl?

592
00:27:21,380 --> 00:27:24,460
Because she really felt unlovable.

593
00:27:24,460 --> 00:27:28,660
Poor girl.

594
00:27:28,660 --> 00:27:29,660
But then.

595
00:27:29,660 --> 00:27:31,420
He just needed somebody to be obsessed with her.

596
00:27:31,420 --> 00:27:32,420
Well she made him.

597
00:27:32,420 --> 00:27:35,180
He was very open to that.

598
00:27:35,180 --> 00:27:36,180
She was so open.

599
00:27:36,180 --> 00:27:41,260
There's a line, I wrote down a different quote from like every time I read this book now

600
00:27:41,260 --> 00:27:47,180
there's gonna be something else that sticks with me.

601
00:27:47,180 --> 00:27:51,140
Because he asks her at one point what is your ambition beyond spending money and pursuing

602
00:27:51,140 --> 00:27:52,380
the goal of being adored.

603
00:27:52,380 --> 00:27:55,980
And I was like oh my god I'm Angelica Frankenstein.

604
00:27:55,980 --> 00:27:58,100
Like those are my ambitions.

605
00:27:58,100 --> 00:28:01,460
Spending money and being adored.

606
00:28:01,460 --> 00:28:03,140
Hi it's me.

607
00:28:03,140 --> 00:28:04,380
The problem is me.

608
00:28:04,380 --> 00:28:08,340
The other one that gets me is there's a part and this has stuck with me since the first

609
00:28:08,340 --> 00:28:16,900
time it's still my favorite quote is she goes my problem.

610
00:28:16,900 --> 00:28:21,500
No my crime in addition to body snatching is being lonely.

611
00:28:21,500 --> 00:28:25,980
In addition to body snatching.

612
00:28:25,980 --> 00:28:28,860
It takes me out.

613
00:28:28,860 --> 00:28:38,460
That's the best quote I could give to explain the vibes of this book.

614
00:28:38,460 --> 00:28:41,060
Honestly because she's so lonely.

615
00:28:41,060 --> 00:28:42,060
And it's so sad.

616
00:28:42,060 --> 00:28:49,300
And you're just like oh go create your own fated husband.

617
00:28:49,300 --> 00:28:50,700
Go do that.

618
00:28:50,700 --> 00:28:54,320
Go chop up some bodies and do that.

619
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:55,320
And she did.

620
00:28:55,320 --> 00:29:01,740
Yeah I mean people were so angry that she gave him a different body than his.

621
00:29:01,740 --> 00:29:02,740
And I was like sad for him.

622
00:29:02,740 --> 00:29:04,540
I was like oh that kind of sucks for him.

623
00:29:04,540 --> 00:29:09,540
But I was also like Frankenstein you put things together.

624
00:29:09,540 --> 00:29:11,820
Right that's the point.

625
00:29:11,820 --> 00:29:14,660
So nowhere was I like.

626
00:29:14,660 --> 00:29:15,660
Pitchforks.

627
00:29:15,660 --> 00:29:19,620
When she even addresses she's like she didn't want to.

628
00:29:19,620 --> 00:29:20,620
I'm really sorry.

629
00:29:20,620 --> 00:29:26,500
Well that but then later she's like I really wish that I had not done that.

630
00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:31,180
So I thought it was funny and handled well.

631
00:29:31,180 --> 00:29:39,020
Because she did get him a bigger penis which was hilarious I thought.

632
00:29:39,020 --> 00:29:40,020
Sure.

633
00:29:40,020 --> 00:29:41,460
The second largest.

634
00:29:41,460 --> 00:29:45,540
The second largest because the first largest was just too much.

635
00:29:45,540 --> 00:29:46,540
Too much.

636
00:29:46,540 --> 00:29:49,540
Monster if you will.

637
00:29:49,540 --> 00:29:54,420
I just read one of those crazy Halloween novellas.

638
00:29:54,420 --> 00:29:56,940
You know those Halloween novellas.

639
00:29:56,940 --> 00:29:59,300
That one he had truly a monster dick.

640
00:29:59,300 --> 00:30:02,660
Because I was like oh that doesn't sound like a good time to me.

641
00:30:02,660 --> 00:30:05,420
Was that the double one or was that not the double one?

642
00:30:05,420 --> 00:30:09,620
It was seduced by the pumpkin king.

643
00:30:09,620 --> 00:30:19,100
There was a part where she was standing and his it was like between her boobs.

644
00:30:19,100 --> 00:30:22,660
What just happened in something else that I read?

645
00:30:22,660 --> 00:30:24,180
Was she standing in that one too?

646
00:30:24,180 --> 00:30:25,780
I did not read this seduced by the pumpkin king.

647
00:30:25,780 --> 00:30:29,820
I don't know I just know it was so large.

648
00:30:29,820 --> 00:30:35,380
It also has a slithering tongue similar to you know when we read where he's able to like

649
00:30:35,380 --> 00:30:40,060
kind of lingus but while standing up.

650
00:30:40,060 --> 00:30:41,600
Wow.

651
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,100
This isn't really anyway.

652
00:30:44,100 --> 00:30:45,580
I mean Angelica would be down.

653
00:30:45,580 --> 00:30:48,260
She'd be down for it.

654
00:30:48,260 --> 00:30:51,900
Like that's probably true.

655
00:30:51,900 --> 00:30:52,900
She'd do it.

656
00:30:52,900 --> 00:30:54,780
I think she'd have a good time.

657
00:30:54,780 --> 00:30:57,980
If she could like reanimate a pumpkin.

658
00:30:57,980 --> 00:31:01,660
Odds are she would.

659
00:31:01,660 --> 00:31:02,660
So you heard it here first.

660
00:31:02,660 --> 00:31:09,860
I don't even know what kind of like like you're a furry but not you're like a seedy.

661
00:31:09,860 --> 00:31:10,860
You're a viney.

662
00:31:10,860 --> 00:31:13,500
I think we should move forward.

663
00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:14,500
I think we should.

664
00:31:14,500 --> 00:31:15,500
You're a spicy.

665
00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:20,180
I realized that I introduced the topic but I think we should.

666
00:31:20,180 --> 00:31:21,180
Depart.

667
00:31:21,180 --> 00:31:22,180
Yeah.

668
00:31:22,180 --> 00:31:25,780
We should move past that now because I hate that.

669
00:31:25,780 --> 00:31:26,780
Nearly departed.

670
00:31:26,780 --> 00:31:27,780
I'm sorry I did.

671
00:31:27,780 --> 00:31:28,780
Name that movie.

672
00:31:28,780 --> 00:31:29,780
That's probably too obscure.

673
00:31:29,780 --> 00:31:30,780
Home Alone.

674
00:31:30,780 --> 00:31:39,420
I think a lot about the scene where John Candy is telling her about how he left his kid at

675
00:31:39,420 --> 00:31:40,420
a funeral home.

676
00:31:40,420 --> 00:31:44,620
Which I'm pretty sure that whole scene is improvised.

677
00:31:44,620 --> 00:31:45,620
It was.

678
00:31:45,620 --> 00:31:46,620
Yeah.

679
00:31:46,620 --> 00:31:49,180
And Catherine O'Hara is like.

680
00:31:49,180 --> 00:31:50,180
Just staring at.

681
00:31:50,180 --> 00:31:54,460
Something like you know let's move on and he's like I mean you brought it up and she

682
00:31:54,460 --> 00:31:58,620
goes sorry I did.

683
00:31:58,620 --> 00:32:04,460
What a good good movie and scene.

684
00:32:04,460 --> 00:32:05,460
What else?

685
00:32:05,460 --> 00:32:11,420
So yeah the whole I thought the appended shopping was fun.

686
00:32:11,420 --> 00:32:13,460
That was fun to me.

687
00:32:13,460 --> 00:32:17,780
And I know there were some things that they were like why would she be discussing this

688
00:32:17,780 --> 00:32:19,700
with her brother and I was like I don't know.

689
00:32:19,700 --> 00:32:22,420
Well because they what do you mean why?

690
00:32:22,420 --> 00:32:23,420
Because they live alone.

691
00:32:23,420 --> 00:32:30,420
Yeah like that's like incestuous I'm like well I've read enough incest this year.

692
00:32:30,420 --> 00:32:33,660
Do not be bothered by that one.

693
00:32:33,660 --> 00:32:38,540
The irony is that in the original Frankenstein Wester marries his cousin.

694
00:32:38,540 --> 00:32:39,540
Oh his cousin.

695
00:32:39,540 --> 00:32:40,540
I was like what?

696
00:32:40,540 --> 00:32:41,540
I mean cousin but like.

697
00:32:41,540 --> 00:32:42,540
Yeah.

698
00:32:42,540 --> 00:32:48,020
And that was a question we've had before how how many like how close in the family tree

699
00:32:48,020 --> 00:32:49,020
is a cousin like.

700
00:32:49,020 --> 00:32:50,020
Yeah.

701
00:32:50,020 --> 00:32:55,180
I just read some notes where they married their cousin I'm pretty sure.

702
00:32:55,180 --> 00:32:57,700
Well the one that we read they weren't.

703
00:32:57,700 --> 00:33:01,860
There was one that they were like very very distant cousins.

704
00:33:01,860 --> 00:33:06,100
I think but I think their last names were the same and I was like that's.

705
00:33:06,100 --> 00:33:08,100
That's a little too close for me.

706
00:33:08,100 --> 00:33:12,620
Like if I know that you're related and have the last name rather than like two different

707
00:33:12,620 --> 00:33:16,260
people with the same last name but they're not related.

708
00:33:16,260 --> 00:33:20,540
These are situations I've never encountered in real life just musings.

709
00:33:20,540 --> 00:33:21,540
Relatable.

710
00:33:21,540 --> 00:33:29,140
I don't know maybe I was thinking of an unwilling bride where they're not actually related but.

711
00:33:29,140 --> 00:33:38,020
But they were both like incest.

712
00:33:38,020 --> 00:33:39,020
What else?

713
00:33:39,020 --> 00:33:40,020
Yeah I mean.

714
00:33:40,020 --> 00:33:44,420
I thought she did a good job of like Lizzie would tell her things about her brother and

715
00:33:44,420 --> 00:33:48,020
she would be like stop talking to me right now.

716
00:33:48,020 --> 00:33:53,180
Yeah I mean I I think most people like if they wanted to dip dipped within the first

717
00:33:53,180 --> 00:33:56,180
like two chapters.

718
00:33:56,180 --> 00:34:02,260
And so they really which again I'm not shaming DNF shaming you DNF whenever you want to DNF.

719
00:34:02,260 --> 00:34:05,460
I wish I could more.

720
00:34:05,460 --> 00:34:08,500
But I just think if they would have kept reading they maybe would have been like a little bit

721
00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:13,420
enlightened a little bit closer to God or Satan.

722
00:34:13,420 --> 00:34:15,420
Or Adam.

723
00:34:15,420 --> 00:34:18,260
Making some grand statements here.

724
00:34:18,260 --> 00:34:20,260
Monster statements.

725
00:34:20,260 --> 00:34:24,940
I mean I do think if you if like this dial works for you and you start it you're like

726
00:34:24,940 --> 00:34:28,500
oh this might be taking two lighthearted things that I don't love.

727
00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:31,900
I think those things where it gets more serious as it progresses.

728
00:34:31,900 --> 00:34:32,900
Like it does.

729
00:34:32,900 --> 00:34:36,540
I think they're just kind of like oh silly haha we're gonna build a body out of other

730
00:34:36,540 --> 00:34:40,620
body parts and reanimate it and that's it.

731
00:34:40,620 --> 00:34:47,520
When in reality it's like yeah but then he's in like chronic terminal pain.

732
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:52,140
And you have the one who's like out in the woods and like the juxtaposition between those

733
00:34:52,140 --> 00:34:58,300
two and him wanting to go back and find his old life and like all of these other.

734
00:34:58,300 --> 00:34:59,980
And there's religion in there.

735
00:34:59,980 --> 00:35:01,900
The religion is a really big thing.

736
00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:04,060
Yeah you're right that's a good point.

737
00:35:04,060 --> 00:35:11,620
Where it starts off like very flippant almost.

738
00:35:11,620 --> 00:35:14,340
Flippant yeah.

739
00:35:14,340 --> 00:35:22,460
And then it's because Angelica is like yeah well and Victor but it takes will.

740
00:35:22,460 --> 00:35:27,660
Hey I am in constant pain and also dying.

741
00:35:27,660 --> 00:35:30,060
And you did this to me.

742
00:35:30,060 --> 00:35:32,740
You claimed to love me but you did this to me.

743
00:35:32,740 --> 00:35:34,860
And I also apparently love you.

744
00:35:34,860 --> 00:35:39,980
Like I feel like I love you but also I hurt and I'm angry at you.

745
00:35:39,980 --> 00:35:43,780
Yeah it was again like just nothing was expected.

746
00:35:43,780 --> 00:35:48,940
Like I just did not expect any of those conversations to go where they went.

747
00:35:48,940 --> 00:35:56,220
And like the plot meanders quite a bit but in like an enjoyable like fulfilling way.

748
00:35:56,220 --> 00:35:59,340
Like you like all these different things were discussed in like different moments because

749
00:35:59,340 --> 00:36:04,420
then if you haven't read the book obviously there'll be spoilers.

750
00:36:04,420 --> 00:36:07,740
But like there are two monsters created or not monster monsters.

751
00:36:07,740 --> 00:36:10,620
But Victor's one he doesn't really pay much attention to like creating it.

752
00:36:10,620 --> 00:36:14,380
He just wants like the biggest like parts and to make it very showy because he wants

753
00:36:14,380 --> 00:36:17,240
to upstage this other scientist.

754
00:36:17,240 --> 00:36:19,540
And then Angelica wants to like create a husband.

755
00:36:19,540 --> 00:36:22,060
And this is their fourth attempt I think.

756
00:36:22,060 --> 00:36:29,460
So like she was like the body of Will like spoke to her in her mind kind of like faded.

757
00:36:29,460 --> 00:36:31,460
She was like do you want to come back to life?

758
00:36:31,460 --> 00:36:33,580
He's like yes.

759
00:36:33,580 --> 00:36:36,820
And so then she like had a connection there and then Victor was like but you got to like

760
00:36:36,820 --> 00:36:37,820
stitch him back together.

761
00:36:37,820 --> 00:36:41,700
Like because he was his body was undamaged.

762
00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:43,500
So they could have just reanimated him that way.

763
00:36:43,500 --> 00:36:47,460
But Victor was like we've committed this far.

764
00:36:47,460 --> 00:36:58,420
Why don't we commit just a bit more by giving him some big muscles and a big was it um oh

765
00:36:58,420 --> 00:37:01,780
no it wasn't the blacksmiths.

766
00:37:01,780 --> 00:37:02,780
It was someone else.

767
00:37:02,780 --> 00:37:04,420
No it came from a they had a collection.

768
00:37:04,420 --> 00:37:05,420
Yeah.

769
00:37:05,420 --> 00:37:06,420
Oh yeah they did have a.

770
00:37:06,420 --> 00:37:09,580
It was the second largest in their collection.

771
00:37:09,580 --> 00:37:12,620
It's just so funny.

772
00:37:12,620 --> 00:37:14,040
Yeah so that happened.

773
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:18,660
So there were two and then they reanimated Victor's first and then he kind of just ran

774
00:37:18,660 --> 00:37:20,180
off.

775
00:37:20,180 --> 00:37:25,260
Most notably he had the hands of Angelica's corpse.

776
00:37:25,260 --> 00:37:30,060
And so because they cut off his arms to make him more muscular.

777
00:37:30,060 --> 00:37:33,500
And so there was a ring on that which ties in later to the plot.

778
00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:34,500
So then he's running away.

779
00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:37,300
Victor is chasing him and then Angelica kind of like fending for herself.

780
00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:39,220
Like she still has to like animate hers.

781
00:37:39,220 --> 00:37:44,020
And it was like lightning and they put him in placenta.

782
00:37:44,020 --> 00:37:48,820
I mean I will say Sally like thought of the logistics and I was like honestly if you wish

783
00:37:48,820 --> 00:37:51,380
hard enough it could maybe work.

784
00:37:51,380 --> 00:37:54,020
I thought the fix at the end was very inventive.

785
00:37:54,020 --> 00:37:59,620
That one I didn't see it cut like I was like how are we going to resolve this.

786
00:37:59,620 --> 00:38:03,180
And I was like you know what like if that was possible.

787
00:38:03,180 --> 00:38:08,060
Like if any of this was possible I could see that being the correct fix to this.

788
00:38:08,060 --> 00:38:13,660
If we had stitched together and reanimated bodies.

789
00:38:13,660 --> 00:38:14,860
And they were alive.

790
00:38:14,860 --> 00:38:19,260
I could see how a blood transfusion would be.

791
00:38:19,260 --> 00:38:22,460
Although we're not even are they even the same blood type?

792
00:38:22,460 --> 00:38:26,580
I mean that is so they had their faded of course but then obviously there's the atom

793
00:38:26,580 --> 00:38:28,860
who is also getting Victor's blood.

794
00:38:28,860 --> 00:38:31,500
Maybe he's faded there too.

795
00:38:31,500 --> 00:38:33,860
That's a great question that we don't need to ponder.

796
00:38:33,860 --> 00:38:36,860
Father help.

797
00:38:36,860 --> 00:38:43,300
So yeah so they basically have like the their little creations and then Angelica is like

798
00:38:43,300 --> 00:38:45,340
big on like you are your own person.

799
00:38:45,340 --> 00:38:53,060
Like you have a room but she's also like I want you to dick me down really badly because

800
00:38:53,060 --> 00:38:57,460
I'm lonely and you're very attractive.

801
00:38:57,460 --> 00:39:01,540
And your new penis really wants me.

802
00:39:01,540 --> 00:39:02,540
That was funny I thought.

803
00:39:02,540 --> 00:39:05,660
He's like this is not my penis.

804
00:39:05,660 --> 00:39:06,980
And then it wasn't.

805
00:39:06,980 --> 00:39:13,260
He's like but whoever it was was extremely attracted to you.

806
00:39:13,260 --> 00:39:17,660
Yeah again like nothing I just didn't anticipate any of it.

807
00:39:17,660 --> 00:39:18,660
It was so funny.

808
00:39:18,660 --> 00:39:23,900
And then they just like because Elizabeth like shows up and she's engaged to Victor

809
00:39:23,900 --> 00:39:27,940
and then they kind of like do their things.

810
00:39:27,940 --> 00:39:29,740
There's just like a lot of conversations between Will.

811
00:39:29,740 --> 00:39:32,940
You have the whole side triangle love triangle.

812
00:39:32,940 --> 00:39:34,420
And then there's a love triangle.

813
00:39:34,420 --> 00:39:36,420
Square.

814
00:39:36,420 --> 00:39:39,420
Which had me scared at the beginning because I was like what I don't want to deal with

815
00:39:39,420 --> 00:39:40,420
a love triangle.

816
00:39:40,420 --> 00:39:45,900
But I ended up liking Christopher and was it Clara or something that he ends up with.

817
00:39:45,900 --> 00:39:46,900
I thought that was cute.

818
00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:52,340
Because yeah then they were like trying to investigate all the different like paths that

819
00:39:52,340 --> 00:39:57,420
could have been because they didn't know who this guy was Will like in his past life.

820
00:39:57,420 --> 00:40:01,380
And so they're trying to find like who he was like there were like a few hints and like

821
00:40:01,380 --> 00:40:06,780
he had like a huge fascination with plants and then there was like a little bit religious

822
00:40:06,780 --> 00:40:10,220
like he realized he was religious and there were a few other things.

823
00:40:10,220 --> 00:40:14,340
And then they go to like this military academy where she meets the Christopher.

824
00:40:14,340 --> 00:40:21,060
He's like the some guy there and then he's like yeah we just had some a like an accident.

825
00:40:21,060 --> 00:40:25,460
Some guy died and then they go visit his widow and they think it's going to be Will like

826
00:40:25,460 --> 00:40:29,300
his former like his widow but it wasn't.

827
00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:31,820
And then that's how they meet those two and then they become part of the plot like they're

828
00:40:31,820 --> 00:40:33,900
kind of like part of the family.

829
00:40:33,900 --> 00:40:38,340
Like by the end she has a baby.

830
00:40:38,340 --> 00:40:43,660
And then like you said like there's the Mary the maid who is like very old too old to be

831
00:40:43,660 --> 00:40:45,540
doing what they're asking her.

832
00:40:45,540 --> 00:40:49,060
But then Angelica is like why don't you just like stop working.

833
00:40:49,060 --> 00:40:53,340
But she said it in a way that was like we're kicking you out rather than like you just

834
00:40:53,340 --> 00:40:55,580
don't have to work but we'll still like provide for you.

835
00:40:55,580 --> 00:40:59,500
And then that was the whole thing the first time I read it.

836
00:40:59,500 --> 00:41:03,660
I don't know why I just like did not realize until Mary freaked out.

837
00:41:03,660 --> 00:41:08,740
I was like why is she so like I mean I guess you could take it that way on the re-read

838
00:41:08,740 --> 00:41:10,900
knowing that Mary was going to respond that way.

839
00:41:10,900 --> 00:41:13,100
I was like oh you know what she was right.

840
00:41:13,100 --> 00:41:17,580
It does sound like Angelica's like yeah you're too old you need to leave.

841
00:41:17,580 --> 00:41:23,500
Because she because she never said like you can stay here like we will provide for you

842
00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:26,700
and like you will have a home.

843
00:41:26,700 --> 00:41:32,100
But it was just like you're just too old and like we got this new younger one like isn't

844
00:41:32,100 --> 00:41:33,100
that nice.

845
00:41:33,100 --> 00:41:34,100
Aren't you happy.

846
00:41:34,100 --> 00:41:38,700
I also respect that Mary just eats herself out to the woods and stays there and is like

847
00:41:38,700 --> 00:41:40,340
I will be here until she.

848
00:41:40,340 --> 00:41:42,500
And is tormenting the monster.

849
00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:44,500
She's tormenting Adam.

850
00:41:44,500 --> 00:41:51,380
And Adam also like so funny to me because again Frankenstein's creature is known for

851
00:41:51,380 --> 00:41:54,380
being like hilariously eloquent.

852
00:41:54,380 --> 00:42:00,940
Because by the time he shows up he spent months reading like intense history books and Paradise

853
00:42:00,940 --> 00:42:02,180
Lost.

854
00:42:02,180 --> 00:42:06,740
So he shows up and gives these long eloquent speeches about how miserable and lonely he

855
00:42:06,740 --> 00:42:07,740
is.

856
00:42:07,740 --> 00:42:13,060
Whereas this creature doesn't have the benefit of going and like reading all these books

857
00:42:13,060 --> 00:42:16,100
so he doesn't have that but also still managed.

858
00:42:16,100 --> 00:42:21,740
I mean obviously we're not getting quite as far into the like human versus monster like

859
00:42:21,740 --> 00:42:22,740
out.

860
00:42:22,740 --> 00:42:24,340
Yeah all of that.

861
00:42:24,340 --> 00:42:29,940
But he does kind of touch on the like why are you a gentleman why do you get to live

862
00:42:29,940 --> 00:42:33,340
in the house whereas I'm.

863
00:42:33,340 --> 00:42:37,380
Yeah like living out here with Grammy the granny.

864
00:42:37,380 --> 00:42:41,980
I'm so happy that they also like brought him into the family too.

865
00:42:41,980 --> 00:42:42,980
I was so sad for him.

866
00:42:42,980 --> 00:42:49,380
I was like oh he's just so alone and his hands are too and he's being antagonized by grandma.

867
00:42:49,380 --> 00:42:54,500
But then he loves her because he's the only family she's the only family he has and it

868
00:42:54,500 --> 00:43:00,340
was emotional.

869
00:43:00,340 --> 00:43:03,420
Yeah and then there was just.

870
00:43:03,420 --> 00:43:11,540
I mean by the end you're like there are both months or like both creations are like experiencing

871
00:43:11,540 --> 00:43:19,260
like they're very cold they don't eat their joint sees up they need massages they're not

872
00:43:19,260 --> 00:43:22,500
functioning well.

873
00:43:22,500 --> 00:43:28,620
And I think like will like passes out he has a whole he gets kind of like interrogated

874
00:43:28,620 --> 00:43:29,620
by this.

875
00:43:29,620 --> 00:43:33,620
Is he a priest.

876
00:43:33,620 --> 00:43:36,900
Well our father would a priest recognizes him.

877
00:43:36,900 --> 00:43:38,900
It was the priest right.

878
00:43:38,900 --> 00:43:39,900
Yeah.

879
00:43:39,900 --> 00:43:46,740
Yeah because then they go to the place to look if there's any records of him or whatever

880
00:43:46,740 --> 00:43:49,540
and then the priest recognizes him.

881
00:43:49,540 --> 00:43:53,300
The priest kind of like passes out or he like kind of goes a little bit bananas and then

882
00:43:53,300 --> 00:43:59,340
will after that was like talking to that guy and he's like you have to stay here I know

883
00:43:59,340 --> 00:44:01,820
that you're you were dead.

884
00:44:01,820 --> 00:44:05,080
But then because the guy was selling bodies so he's not great either and he was like using

885
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:14,140
funds to like give himself all this luxurious like jewelry and marble and all of that.

886
00:44:14,140 --> 00:44:19,580
So he's not great and then will kind of passes out which honestly we've learned that when

887
00:44:19,580 --> 00:44:20,580
in doubt faint.

888
00:44:20,580 --> 00:44:23,340
No full on will dies multiple times.

889
00:44:23,340 --> 00:44:24,340
Yeah and then after that he dies.

890
00:44:24,340 --> 00:44:30,500
He dies and she breathes his soul back into him and then he dies some more times.

891
00:44:30,500 --> 00:44:31,500
That does happen.

892
00:44:31,500 --> 00:44:35,900
And then they're like you've got to just let him go like if he comes back and she's like

893
00:44:35,900 --> 00:44:38,740
but he's the love of my life.

894
00:44:38,740 --> 00:44:41,140
Because at that point like they were just so cute.

895
00:44:41,140 --> 00:44:42,140
Took baths.

896
00:44:42,140 --> 00:44:47,420
Yeah I was like I don't know Sally how we're getting out of this.

897
00:44:47,420 --> 00:44:52,220
I was like I don't I don't know what we're gonna do.

898
00:44:52,220 --> 00:44:59,860
But then it turns out that Victor in the 11th hour comes in with a pig intestine and a dream.

899
00:44:59,860 --> 00:45:07,220
And fashions of blood transfusion like needle.

900
00:45:07,220 --> 00:45:11,060
Sometimes all you got is the pig intestine on a dream.

901
00:45:11,060 --> 00:45:16,020
And then Sally's blood is now Will's blood.

902
00:45:16,020 --> 00:45:24,660
And we found that Will's real name was Arlo and that he was the replacement to the priest.

903
00:45:24,660 --> 00:45:26,740
That's why the priest knew him.

904
00:45:26,740 --> 00:45:30,580
Arlo was not on my bingo board of names that he was gonna have.

905
00:45:30,580 --> 00:45:32,980
And I was like forever he is Will to me.

906
00:45:32,980 --> 00:45:35,500
Yeah I will say Arlo not a hot name.

907
00:45:35,500 --> 00:45:38,860
Part of me was hoping that came from Frankenstein.

908
00:45:38,860 --> 00:45:42,300
So I was like Sally what?

909
00:45:42,300 --> 00:45:46,700
Arlo like there's not much saving that.

910
00:45:46,700 --> 00:45:50,020
I would prefer to add him to Arlo.

911
00:45:50,020 --> 00:45:52,540
Because he was also a little virgin.

912
00:45:52,540 --> 00:45:56,340
He was a little virgin priest.

913
00:45:56,340 --> 00:45:59,780
Which I guess makes sense if his name was Arlo.

914
00:45:59,780 --> 00:46:01,420
I don't know what Arlo's are getting into.

915
00:46:01,420 --> 00:46:02,420
It doesn't sound like many.

916
00:46:02,420 --> 00:46:03,420
Because he's a priest.

917
00:46:03,420 --> 00:46:06,700
I mean that too but I feel like it started with the name.

918
00:46:06,700 --> 00:46:08,740
He was destined.

919
00:46:08,740 --> 00:46:14,420
But yeah I mean there was a it's like a surprisingly a hot book for not a lot of detail.

920
00:46:14,420 --> 00:46:16,060
Because like Sally Thorne I think does that really well.

921
00:46:16,060 --> 00:46:20,820
I've read all of her books that she's published which I think is for right now.

922
00:46:20,820 --> 00:46:26,820
She's coming out with a novella anthology soon with like Christina Lauren and stuff.

923
00:46:26,820 --> 00:46:32,220
She has really perfected the kind of like vague sex scenes.

924
00:46:32,220 --> 00:46:33,220
Where they're not vague.

925
00:46:33,220 --> 00:46:34,500
You still know what's happening.

926
00:46:34,500 --> 00:46:40,540
But they're not like crazily explicit.

927
00:46:40,540 --> 00:46:43,100
I don't know they like the scene in the hating game.

928
00:46:43,100 --> 00:46:45,220
It spanned like two chapters.

929
00:46:45,220 --> 00:46:49,500
But it still wasn't very like concrete.

930
00:46:49,500 --> 00:46:50,500
I don't know.

931
00:46:50,500 --> 00:46:52,100
It was a really good scene.

932
00:46:52,100 --> 00:46:53,100
Just side note.

933
00:46:53,100 --> 00:46:54,900
I just love her writing.

934
00:46:54,900 --> 00:46:57,700
But in this book they were a little kinky.

935
00:46:57,700 --> 00:47:00,060
It was funny.

936
00:47:00,060 --> 00:47:04,500
And he was like I was a good virginal boy.

937
00:47:04,500 --> 00:47:06,740
I've never had my fingers inside a woman.

938
00:47:06,740 --> 00:47:09,740
And I was like hot.

939
00:47:09,740 --> 00:47:12,300
I was like okay cool.

940
00:47:12,300 --> 00:47:13,300
Because I didn't know.

941
00:47:13,300 --> 00:47:14,300
I didn't know.

942
00:47:14,300 --> 00:47:16,460
Like I didn't I didn't know what to expect.

943
00:47:16,460 --> 00:47:20,100
Because I was like I could definitely have seen her just doing this like closed door.

944
00:47:20,100 --> 00:47:22,980
And like fully shutting the entire door.

945
00:47:22,980 --> 00:47:26,100
Just sometimes authors transition genres or whatever.

946
00:47:26,100 --> 00:47:27,100
And that kind of just scares me.

947
00:47:27,100 --> 00:47:29,820
Like I don't know what's going to happen.

948
00:47:29,820 --> 00:47:33,220
So I was pleasantly surprised by the love of detail we got.

949
00:47:33,220 --> 00:47:38,700
And I thought it was funny that they alluded to 69 and a lot of other things.

950
00:47:38,700 --> 00:47:41,940
I was like you go you little crazy kids.

951
00:47:41,940 --> 00:47:46,540
You reanimated corpse.

952
00:47:46,540 --> 00:47:52,940
I will say of like I'm as a Catholic will not be reading Priest.

953
00:47:52,940 --> 00:48:00,500
Or the other like no shade to anybody who has or does or enjoys like go forth read what

954
00:48:00,500 --> 00:48:01,500
you want.

955
00:48:01,500 --> 00:48:04,780
Just me personally not a thing I'm interested in reading.

956
00:48:04,780 --> 00:48:12,860
This one took an interesting like take on religion that I thought was handled very well.

957
00:48:12,860 --> 00:48:13,860
It was definitely.

958
00:48:13,860 --> 00:48:17,780
Not the way I was expecting just because Victor was so like we hate the church because they

959
00:48:17,780 --> 00:48:21,420
told me to pray and my mom died instead of like getting a doctor.

960
00:48:21,420 --> 00:48:26,900
But then to take that and have the religious character come in and be like I don't like

961
00:48:26,900 --> 00:48:29,500
that he's forcing that on you though.

962
00:48:29,500 --> 00:48:30,500
Yeah.

963
00:48:30,500 --> 00:48:35,140
Like you should be able to make your own decisions about what you believe.

964
00:48:35,140 --> 00:48:36,140
Yeah.

965
00:48:36,140 --> 00:48:42,700
Because I mean even will slash Arlo but really will.

966
00:48:42,700 --> 00:48:47,700
Like he just turned to the church because like he didn't really have anything else like

967
00:48:47,700 --> 00:48:48,700
his parents.

968
00:48:48,700 --> 00:48:49,700
Right.

969
00:48:49,700 --> 00:48:50,700
Well but I like very cold.

970
00:48:50,700 --> 00:48:51,700
Yeah.

971
00:48:51,700 --> 00:48:54,660
Religious even though he remembered who he was.

972
00:48:54,660 --> 00:48:57,780
It was very interesting person.

973
00:48:57,780 --> 00:49:00,020
And it wasn't like oh I just had to become a priest.

974
00:49:00,020 --> 00:49:03,180
But I actually hate religion and like yeah you're right.

975
00:49:03,180 --> 00:49:06,700
It was like I entered the seminary at eight.

976
00:49:06,700 --> 00:49:08,540
It was not something that I really wanted for myself.

977
00:49:08,540 --> 00:49:11,660
But he does still pray and like believe in God and want.

978
00:49:11,660 --> 00:49:14,300
Because I think his friend died.

979
00:49:14,300 --> 00:49:16,780
Yeah and his friend had died young.

980
00:49:16,780 --> 00:49:24,260
It has something to do with the plant like his love for plants or something.

981
00:49:24,260 --> 00:49:30,660
Yeah I just I that was another term where I was like oh that's really fascinating how

982
00:49:30,660 --> 00:49:33,620
you put him into this like very unreligious family.

983
00:49:33,620 --> 00:49:42,980
Because to where Angelica was like scared to tell Victor that Will was religious and

984
00:49:42,980 --> 00:49:48,780
or going to be a priest.

985
00:49:48,780 --> 00:49:51,580
Yeah I just thought it was handled really well.

986
00:49:51,580 --> 00:49:52,700
I really enjoyed it here.

987
00:49:52,700 --> 00:49:58,860
I thought it was an interesting conversation and it really like I don't know sparked some

988
00:49:58,860 --> 00:50:02,780
ideas and just thinking about things.

989
00:50:02,780 --> 00:50:03,780
Thanks.

990
00:50:03,780 --> 00:50:08,500
Just thinking about things.

991
00:50:08,500 --> 00:50:13,140
Thanks yeah.

992
00:50:13,140 --> 00:50:17,380
But yeah I just really hope she writes more.

993
00:50:17,380 --> 00:50:21,820
I just hope that that happens.

994
00:50:21,820 --> 00:50:25,580
Because I'd want to see it.

995
00:50:25,580 --> 00:50:27,020
Because I get so emotional at the end.

996
00:50:27,020 --> 00:50:29,220
But if it didn't have to end I'd be so happy.

997
00:50:29,220 --> 00:50:34,140
Because then they have their little cottage and they have a little baby who does not look

998
00:50:34,140 --> 00:50:38,660
like Will because he's got different genetics.

999
00:50:38,660 --> 00:50:43,820
Little dark haired baby boy and like oh my god.

1000
00:50:43,820 --> 00:50:46,420
And then like the house was like a character.

1001
00:50:46,420 --> 00:50:53,860
Because the book starts with like the house being the narrator kind of with like this

1002
00:50:53,860 --> 00:50:57,540
kind of spirits of like their parents.

1003
00:50:57,540 --> 00:50:59,780
And then that's kind of how it ends too.

1004
00:50:59,780 --> 00:51:01,140
And for some reason that really got me.

1005
00:51:01,140 --> 00:51:04,740
I was like oh the house.

1006
00:51:04,740 --> 00:51:07,500
Yeah I don't know.

1007
00:51:07,500 --> 00:51:08,500
This book does it.

1008
00:51:08,500 --> 00:51:10,420
And again the narrator was so good.

1009
00:51:10,420 --> 00:51:15,180
It's a very good audiobook.

1010
00:51:15,180 --> 00:51:19,920
And I believe it's still on sale on Audible right now.

1011
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,020
It may not be but I think it is.

1012
00:51:22,020 --> 00:51:23,020
Or a chirp or something.

1013
00:51:23,020 --> 00:51:24,020
I think the audiobook is on sale.

1014
00:51:24,020 --> 00:51:29,180
If you're listening to this and you're like wow I want to listen to the audiobook.

1015
00:51:29,180 --> 00:51:31,340
You can get it on sale.

1016
00:51:31,340 --> 00:51:34,500
So there's that.

1017
00:51:34,500 --> 00:51:39,980
I love a good audiobook sale.

1018
00:51:39,980 --> 00:51:45,140
But I mean I don't really have much else.

1019
00:51:45,140 --> 00:51:47,820
Nothing to add.

1020
00:51:47,820 --> 00:51:50,900
I do feel like it's one of those.

1021
00:51:50,900 --> 00:51:54,060
Like I don't know that I would recommend this to people who love Frankenstein unless they

1022
00:51:54,060 --> 00:52:00,500
are like I enjoyed Frankenstein from an academic perspective.

1023
00:52:00,500 --> 00:52:04,700
I don't know that it's necessarily one that I'm like oh I just want to like dive back

1024
00:52:04,700 --> 00:52:05,860
in and reread.

1025
00:52:05,860 --> 00:52:09,700
But like it was an interesting read.

1026
00:52:09,700 --> 00:52:16,380
I think if you're like I love Frankenstein but also don't take it too seriously.

1027
00:52:16,380 --> 00:52:20,500
It's giving you know like the Barbie movie ads where they were like if you love Barbie

1028
00:52:20,500 --> 00:52:21,500
this is for you.

1029
00:52:21,500 --> 00:52:23,860
If you hate Barbie this is for you.

1030
00:52:23,860 --> 00:52:24,860
That's the vibe.

1031
00:52:24,860 --> 00:52:25,860
Yeah you're right.

1032
00:52:25,860 --> 00:52:31,860
Because yeah you could hate Frankenstein and still have a good time.

1033
00:52:31,860 --> 00:52:41,060
Oh yeah because then at the end Mary's niece is Mary Shelley who then writes kind of a

1034
00:52:41,060 --> 00:52:42,060
recounting.

1035
00:52:42,060 --> 00:52:45,580
Well I think the idea is that she just needs inspiration.

1036
00:52:45,580 --> 00:52:50,860
She just writes her book and just writes that one.

1037
00:52:50,860 --> 00:52:51,860
Nature.

1038
00:52:51,860 --> 00:52:57,660
Honestly again I haven't read Frankenstein but Victor's character he seemed like if

1039
00:52:57,660 --> 00:53:03,260
he was transported into the world of Frankenstein would also love nature and just love being

1040
00:53:03,260 --> 00:53:04,260
dramatic in it.

1041
00:53:04,260 --> 00:53:06,260
Well he is dramatic.

1042
00:53:06,260 --> 00:53:07,260
Yeah.

1043
00:53:07,260 --> 00:53:09,260
That's true.

1044
00:53:09,260 --> 00:53:11,260
Yeah.

1045
00:53:11,260 --> 00:53:16,780
Well I think that was a success.

1046
00:53:16,780 --> 00:53:18,820
Just like this book.

1047
00:53:18,820 --> 00:53:20,060
I don't know.

1048
00:53:20,060 --> 00:53:23,060
My brain.

1049
00:53:23,060 --> 00:53:30,180
It is as of this episode October 13th.

1050
00:53:30,180 --> 00:53:32,540
And Halloween's on a Tuesday like we said last time.

1051
00:53:32,540 --> 00:53:38,780
So Halloween TBR and just spooky things.

1052
00:53:38,780 --> 00:53:47,860
We've got Gaywick next week and then something.

1053
00:53:47,860 --> 00:53:50,940
I just got the audiobook for Bewitching by Jill Barnett.

1054
00:53:50,940 --> 00:53:51,940
There's an audiobook?

1055
00:53:51,940 --> 00:53:54,940
Yeah it's audible only.

1056
00:53:54,940 --> 00:54:04,260
And I had apparently got a free copy of the ebook like a while ago and so I was able to

1057
00:54:04,260 --> 00:54:12,220
get the audiobook for 7.49 which was nice.

1058
00:54:12,220 --> 00:54:18,020
So we'll do that if it's fun.

1059
00:54:18,020 --> 00:54:23,380
Most of the reviews I've seen are good and the narrator sounded pretty good so I'm excited

1060
00:54:23,380 --> 00:54:24,380
for that.

1061
00:54:24,380 --> 00:54:28,140
And then after that we've got another old school school that I don't remember off the

1062
00:54:28,140 --> 00:54:29,140
top of my head.

1063
00:54:29,140 --> 00:54:31,740
But that gets us through October which is crazy.

1064
00:54:31,740 --> 00:54:37,420
I'm currently reading Cherish Reads first like paranormal horror thing.

1065
00:54:37,420 --> 00:54:45,260
And you're just making your way downtown through pumpkins, cursed pumpkins, lots of different

1066
00:54:45,260 --> 00:54:46,260
things.

1067
00:54:46,260 --> 00:54:49,940
I've only been on one cursed pumpkin so far this year although I have a couple others

1068
00:54:49,940 --> 00:54:51,340
up my sleeve.

1069
00:54:51,340 --> 00:54:53,780
She's got cursed pumpkins up her sleeve guys.

1070
00:54:53,780 --> 00:54:57,740
Got a binder full of cursed pumpkins.

1071
00:54:57,740 --> 00:54:59,540
Is Halloween your favorite season?

1072
00:54:59,540 --> 00:55:02,940
I mean I love Christmas, I do.

1073
00:55:02,940 --> 00:55:10,900
But I don't love Christmas romances particularly but I do love the paranormal spooky but not

1074
00:55:10,900 --> 00:55:17,620
scary like that vein of like if I'm gonna read seasonally I'm gonna read those whereas

1075
00:55:17,620 --> 00:55:22,460
I'm not, it's hard for me to find a Christmas romance that I really like.

1076
00:55:22,460 --> 00:55:23,460
I do agree.

1077
00:55:23,460 --> 00:55:27,740
I feel, cause you're not a huge Hallmark fan are you?

1078
00:55:27,740 --> 00:55:28,740
No.

1079
00:55:28,740 --> 00:55:34,980
Yeah and see I really enjoy Hallmark but that's because it's like a two hour max movie and

1080
00:55:34,980 --> 00:55:37,460
like it's a vibe.

1081
00:55:37,460 --> 00:55:40,700
But stretching that out for like eight hours sometimes is like huh?

1082
00:55:40,700 --> 00:55:42,700
Yeah it's a lot.

1083
00:55:42,700 --> 00:55:49,900
I mean I have read today as of recording October 11th and this month I finished my 19th book

1084
00:55:49,900 --> 00:55:50,900
today.

1085
00:55:50,900 --> 00:55:51,900
Dang.

1086
00:55:51,900 --> 00:55:56,260
Quite a few are novellas but spooky.

1087
00:55:56,260 --> 00:55:59,340
I know I've read a lot of novellas but they haven't really been spooky they've just been

1088
00:55:59,340 --> 00:56:03,060
plenty.

1089
00:56:03,060 --> 00:56:06,220
Well spooky or paranormal.

1090
00:56:06,220 --> 00:56:14,580
Some of them are just monster smut which isn't restricted to October but I don't really read

1091
00:56:14,580 --> 00:56:18,500
monster romance outside of that cause it's just not really my vibe but right now I'm

1092
00:56:18,500 --> 00:56:21,980
like yeah he's a snake demon alright.

1093
00:56:21,980 --> 00:56:24,260
Sounds spooky to me.

1094
00:56:24,260 --> 00:56:27,300
He's literally a little snake.

1095
00:56:27,300 --> 00:56:29,540
I'm a snake.

1096
00:56:29,540 --> 00:56:40,940
Yeah well we're gonna go continue reading our Halloween TBRs and we shall see you next

1097
00:56:40,940 --> 00:56:41,940
week.

1098
00:56:41,940 --> 00:56:44,940
Boy shall we.

1099
00:56:44,940 --> 00:56:51,100
I'm not ready for this jelly or this gay wig.

1100
00:56:51,100 --> 00:56:57,980
So yeah it'll be a time for sure.

1101
00:56:57,980 --> 00:56:58,980
Any parting words?

1102
00:56:58,980 --> 00:56:59,980
Yabady yabadoo.

1103
00:56:59,980 --> 00:57:00,980
You know?

1104
00:57:00,980 --> 00:57:01,980
That's it.

1105
00:57:01,980 --> 00:57:08,300
That's all I got in me.

1106
00:57:08,300 --> 00:57:11,380
That was a lot in you so I'm glad it's out.

1107
00:57:11,380 --> 00:57:12,980
It was really putting a lot of pressure.

1108
00:57:12,980 --> 00:57:14,500
I needed to be released.

1109
00:57:14,500 --> 00:57:17,220
Yeah it was like the weight of the world was on your shoulders.

1110
00:57:17,220 --> 00:57:19,820
Yes and now I'm finally free.

1111
00:57:19,820 --> 00:57:23,620
I'm always free guys so with that we're breaking free.

1112
00:57:23,620 --> 00:57:24,620
She's soaring.

1113
00:57:24,620 --> 00:57:25,620
She's flying.

1114
00:57:25,620 --> 00:57:28,860
There's not a star in heaven that she can't reach.

1115
00:57:28,860 --> 00:57:31,220
That's so real.

1116
00:57:31,220 --> 00:57:51,580
So true.