Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, one of my favorite Gothic classics of all time and just an absolute banger of a book.
Frankenstein (2017)
Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monster. This edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by author and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson.
- ISBN:
- 9798588898799
- Length:
- 291 pages
Genres: fantasy , science fiction , horror , classics
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I am now up to chapter four and I am so thrilled to say that I am really loving the story. I am fascinated by the topics that Mary Shelley is exploring like family dynamics and psychology and grief and death and science and nature and possession and there's so much there's so much to think about that this book brings to your mind and this is such a thoughtful and thought-provoking idea and I am just continuing to be baffled by it
My favorite book is Frankenstein. I talk about that a lot and every time I read it, there is something new to think about.
Mary Shelley was writing from a very, very dark place and though I don't like this book all that much, it still is one of the scariest novels I think I've ever read.
There's not enough good things really that I can say about Frankenstein. I think it's absolutely amazing and a perfect book for this time of year.
However, despite the fact that I am not a fan of them as people, I found them absolutely fascinating and the work itself was incredible. It is so atmospheric.
I always forget that part of Frankenstein ends up happening in Scotland, but it does and it's great and it's fantastic. I probably don't need to go on and on about Frankenstein, but if you haven't read it, let this be your Frankenstein summer or winter depending on where you are.
Mary Shelley poetic ass writer just gorgeous pros at times to describe the monster and the conflict with Frankenstein. It is a amazing meditation of man versus monster, which of course is actually man versus self cuz that's what it always is.
That was my entry into this story and the reason why I love it so much. I absolutely loved reading this for the first time and I wish I could go back.
I have conflicting feelings. I'm a bit ambivalent about this. I think that obviously hugely influential book basically launched a whole genre.
Frankenstein, again, not surprising it's there since the movie came out. It's a classic. So, if you want to check it out.
Frankenstein which I was obsessed with.
It's an endlessly re-readable book, and I will re-read it again. It's full of pain, and her own personal pain, I think, shines through horrendously, but also, you know, magisterially. It's an unforgettable story.
Frankenstein is the villain, not the monster. That's what happens in Frankenstein really, if you want to look at it from a human perspective as opposed to just the plot lines.
Bothbooks are incredible works of literature that also remain relevant and debated tothis day. I mean, this video case in point. Because of the insight into andthe commentary that they have on our society.
It was such an incredible experience to reread Frankenstein and to be able to put my thoughts that I looked up online to like really delve deep into the story and to fully understand what I was reading
And it was so good. It's one of my favorite classics.
He told you what he would do. Like I look I just Yeah, I think there'd have to be some changes made for modern audience, but I think you could do it
I actually read like the a graphic novel for Frankenstein. Not a graphic novel, but like it had illustrations throughout it when I was younger as well. And I actually really like Frankenstein.
So, I bought the Penguin English Library copy and I'd like to give it a reread and like annotate it and everything because obviously I really like Frankenstein, but I don't know if I'm going to do that this month.
I started this last year and I just couldn't focus like I couldn't really get into it.
I hope it's better than Frankenstein, which I read recently and didn't really like at all.
while I did enjoy it and I would recommend it was a little bit more difficult for me to understand and I was a little bit bored until we got a pretty good chunk of the way into it
Frankenstein's a great book you know and you get ites into the Enlightenment and Romanticism and the Industrial Revolution as well in Frankenstein
I have since gone on to read issue two and issue three of this comic so there's one more left I think it's due to come out sometime this month so excited to see how this wraps up it is so good guys
amazing book Incredible character study that I feel like has kind of been diminished a little bit by Hollywood's adaptations of it over the years
Frankenstein is like the main one if you love math scientists questions about what it means to be human dark Academia Vibes how to live with guilt of existing you're going to love this
it is a fascinating is a fascinating story and I love the complexity that we can draw from it
when I first was Frankenstein I didn't like it and then I studed it so many times
I do actually really like Frankenstein it's one of the rare few Classics that I do really like
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley this knew what she was doing okay
I guess Frankenstein,I don't know when Frankenstein came out. I've read a lot of classics, I was forced to reada lot of them. And I did not like any of them.
i didn't actually love frankenstein funny enough i ended up giving frankenstein a 2 out of 5 stars it was something that i was really glad i got to finally experience the classic but i didn't love it
okay so i'm giving it four stars i really enjoyed it and i was it's so funny that i thought i had to read frankenstein before reading this when this literally is frankenstein it's just illustrated and slightly abridged i love the whole concept of frankenstein
and also you should read Frankenstein because that's really good.
i've got to say frankenstein is not my favorite classic
Alice in Wonderland my second favorite classic is Frankenstein
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