Loved itMaybe my favorite book of all time. Depends on the day. It changes.
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Frankenstein (1818)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.
- ISBN:
- 9780578286259
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- 240 pages
Genres: science fiction, horror, historical fiction, young adult, classics
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Loved it
Loved itAnd I loved it. I cannot remember studying it at all. I loved the narrative structure of the book. That for me was one of the most magical things was how all the different narratives are layered.
Loved itit's actually a very misunderstood book, and the film adaptation is quite different, so I wanted to really focus on Mary Shel's original writing as well, which we did, and it was wonderful.
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Loved itSo, although I think that this novel is as close to perfection as a book can be, I would be over the moon if somebody changed some of the elements and made a better version of this story. In the book, the creature murders the innocent. It understands revenge and it goes out of its way to calculate how to inflict emotional pain onto Victor.
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Loved itWhich is of course an incredible novel. I love Frankenstein and I actually really enjoyed the recent Gail Mod Del Toro adaptation in the cinema when I went to see it.
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Not a fanI didn't love it at all. I'm not sure if it was Jamie Bell's narration that was just a bit unengaging or if the romantic flowery language of the time just annoyed me.
Loved itthis is another one that I would put in my top 10 books of all time I connected this with this one because it's so philosophical it's so emotional
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Loved itFrankenstein is considered by a lot of people to be the original science fiction book the first true science fiction book ... it is what people say it is it's a Timeless book it's beautifully written
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Loved itthis is a book I read last year for the first time and I was blown away by how much I loved it I understand why she is considered the mother of Science Fiction and Gothic Horror in some ways too I can't recommend this enough
Loved itI remember reading it for the first time in my intro to fiction class in college and just being enraptured by the story and the way that it was told and the plight of the monster throughout the story
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Mixedso am I a fan of the actual words of the novel not really is this a novel that would give me nightmares no not really is this a novel that changed the way I read a little bit
Loved itit's more scarless it's more anti-religious it's more inflammatory than the later version and I prefer it and is sort of more clipped and harsh
Loved itwhen i started reading this i fully expected just like a green monster horror story but instead i got a wonderful story about an ambitious scientist driven by this sickly thirst for innovation and a monster that is mostly just like angry with his creation
Loved itit's a great look at the meaning of life and science and whether you should tinker around in that arena
Loved itI read this recently and studying it just like on my own, I really fell in love with the story.
Loved itI think this book really explores human nature and what makes us who we are like how we are shaped by our pasts and the events that occur in our lives and the story itself is so different from any of the movies but I still really enjoyed it
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Loved itI've always really enjoyed Frankenstein. The first time that I read it was really early on in high school.