So interestingly, we just did a whole in-depth discussion about Frankenstein, and part of the conversation in regards to Frankenstein was about how some of its themes anyway feel fairly obvious or at the very least are not trying to hide themselves.
Elliot Brooks 168K subscribers · Mar 8, 2026
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I do think you could have trimmed most of it actually but then it would have completely transformed what the book was doing because I feel like part of the amusement of that book is how much we dwell in sometimes what is basically an inconsequential moment but it's not actually in inconsequential to the reading experience.

