Karen’s Comments (group member since Jun 07, 2016)

Karen’s comments from the Not Just Another Buddy Read group.

Speaking of artists, one is of my absolutely favorite artist is in Australia right now. His stage name is Kolohe Kai and he's from Hawaii. He was there for a music festival at first but now I think he's been traveling around for the surfing. I have him on Instagram and he's been to Kirra Beach and Snapper Rocks. I really would love to see him live one day. *.*

Yeah! I hope we enjoy this one :) I do like the author's books in general.

*~* !! Happy Valentine's Day !! *~*

I'm sorry about the difficulty you guys :( I also got my ebook copy. But I'm looking forward to reading! I might start it on Valentine's Day. If not definitely the 15th.

And that ending! Nothing really happened! What was the climax? lol I don't understand how it became so popular. Oh well, I'm glad I read a classic since I hadn't read one in a while. But really those characters were all painfully annoying.

I finished Frankenstein!!! Oh my goodness.... pleaaaseee tell me how that book is considered a horror story. I can't even. I guess Mary Shelley considered feeling sorry for yourself the worst thing that could ever happen to you.

That's great!! I love being a fangirl, that excitement feeling, I'm addicted to it haha :) I'm glad you were able to see him live :)

Frankenstein: I'm on the last disk you guys!! I have about 15 tracks to go!!

Punk 57 it is! Yeah I'm going to prob buy her ebook. It's $2.99 on Amazon and B&B. Sorry about that guys :/ I don't think it's available in most libraries.

You're a big Eminem fan Dano? I remember when I was in middle school (that's grade 6-8 here in the States) he was sooo popular! And just the other day my husband was watching a vid on Youtube and they were talking about how many words he can say per second when he's rapping. It's pretty amazing!

As for Franky, I'm glad I'm not the only one Kristy!

I'm in the middle of disk 8 out of 9 now and I just want it to end. Franky really kicked up the complaining since he was put into jail. Now he's free and received a letter from Elizabeth about their future together. I have no idea where the story is going. Let's see how George and Franky end up chasing each other through the Artic Circle... I should be done by Friday!!

Hello there!

It's February!! This is my favorite month of the year :) I love Valentine's Day and my birthday falls in this month as well. Also, it's still early enough in the year for things to still feel nice and fresh but they are starting to feel familiar as well. A fresh comfy month! lol

Here are the book options for Feb. I'm going to suggest four that I've put into 2 separate categories:

NEW ADULT


These are both by the same author, Penelope Douglas. She's my favorite New Adult writer and I haven't read one of hers in a while. She has these two new stand alones I'm looking forward to reading.

YOUNG ADULT


They are both young adult and look interesting. To Stand Beside Her is a fantasy maybe romance novel. Stick is a contemporary maybe friendship novel.

Let me know what you guys think :)))

"YOU ARE MY CREATOR BUT I AM YOUR MASTER! OBEY!"

Finally! An exciting bit of dialogue! It was just that one paragraph but it was actually exciting.

The rest of the time we're just in Franky's head and it's soooo boriiing. OMG when they were traveling to England and he said, you're better off listening to my friend's observations of the countryside rather than my dreary ones. And then went on to describe the countryside for ages and ages. I was thinking uuhh why don't we leave out that part out altogether??

Then there was the fact that he said he finally cried after not having cried for months. I was like REALLY?! REALLY BUDDY? Cause you seem to do a whole lot of crying constantly. That was right after George threatened his wedding night lol

Yay! I'm looking forward to it too!

I got to the end of George's tale and the one thing he demands Franky do for him! I am surprised by what it was! I didn't know the concept of Mrs. Frankenstein also extends from the original book. Not that I expect Franky to go through with it. He's already wavering.

He's such a shallow person! I hate the part where he said he was moved by George's words but when he looked at him he couldn't help being revolted! LIKE COME ON! And George freaking taught himself how to read, write and speak and Franky doesn't even acknowledge that. I can't think of him as a true man of science to not be even a little curious about how this being he created has developed in a cognitive sense.

Disk 6 was unexpectedly short so I'm on disk 7 now. I've been driving a lot today.

George's story is very long but much more interesting than anything Franky had been doing up to now.

I just got to the part where he scared the cottagers away...awww :(

Just need to finish disks 6-9! I will prob go over the month but on Feb 1st I'll post our Feb choices so we can work on picking and ordering the Feb book. I'll be done with Franky by the time we start on Feb 15 or so.

It's interesting how George doesn't know what things are or how to talk during his first days of life. I think it's a tad dubious but I still appreciate that Shelley went through the effort.

I'm at the part where he is observing the people of the little cottage and he learned the words fire, milk, son, sister, brother, etc.

I wonder how he makes the leap from that to using complicated sentences (since he's telling Franky the story using complex language).

Most overused word in this whole book: wretch!!

Lol yeah I think dick is an apt description.

Omg I don't understand how he never changes throughout the whole story.

He's worse than the guy from Metamorphosis by Kafka. Franky reminds me of him so much but if you turn into a giant roach you have more of a reason to be a pain in the butt. Franky is just a spoiled crybaby.

I read a Clockwork Orange and the author included an pre-word that mentions how, when it was originally published, the American version was printed without the last chapter. He didn't agree with this decision because in the last chapter the main character decides to change, he decides to stop destroying and start creating. He said without the last chapter, a Clockwork Orange is a fable not a novel because in a fable the characters are one dimensional and don't change from beginning to end but in a novel characters grow and change.

This makes me think of Frankenstein. I feel like Franky is a very one dimensional (and irritating) character like in a fable. No doubt Mary Shelley's novel is very well written but to some degree you can tell it was written by someone young.

Oh...my...GOD! If he compares himself *one* more time to the girl that has been condemned to death and says that *he* is the bigger wretch because *he* has to deal with the guilt I am going to kill him. Does he serious not get his comeuppance at the end? Cause he really is just the worst!

It also annoyed me when his friend said they were worse off than William because at least William was now not suffering but they were left behind to be miserable. Of course Franky latched onto that and thought that's right oh woe is me I never catch a break. -________________-

New flash - NO you are not worse off than the little boy strangled to death or the girl wrongfully accused and about to be hanged in a few days.

Oh! A murder!!

You see Dr. Franky? This is why it's not good to be irresponsible!!

A murder and a trial... it brings me back to The Pact.

I got to the part where he animated George for the first time and that was pretty good! I liked that he fell asleep and then he saw George staring at him lol

But what type of irresponsible person is actually happy that a crazy monster person he created ran away?

Yeah right? I thought it was really interesting and I feel like I only scratched the surface :)

Well I'm still going to finish Franky!!

Hahaha! I'm looking forward to that XD Still on disk 2 of 9. There are many parts where I kind of just zone out because I feel the narrative goes on and on about stuff that I don't see any reason for.

I just got to the part where BAM he magically found the way to bring life to lifeless objects. There wasn't much explanation about it, seemed a bit sudden. Maybe more explanation will be given later? I know it is obviously sci-fi but some fake science stuff would be really interesting to read about.

My audiobook had a pre-word written by Mary Shelley and also an introduction that just talked a bit about her life. Both spoke about her circumstances during the time she came up with the story and I found that to be much more interesting. Her serious and dark novel is largely contrasted by her life. She ran away from home when she was just 18 with a married man, Percy Shelley, the poet. They came back home 6 months later. She was pregnant (she soon miscarried) and they were broke. They spent a summer soon after that with the poet Lord Byron because Mary's step sister Claire was his lover. There the four of them decided to challenge each other to write a scary story after having read a scary stories novel. Mary went through days of writer's block. Then one evening after hearing Percy and Lord Byron talk about theories of life and re-animated corpses she came up with the story of Franky. And that was that.

I went on Wikipedia to find out more about her and it turns out after marrying Percy (his original wife committed suicide) and publishing Frankenstein they moved to Italy where they wrote a lot more and two of their children died young. Only their third and final child grew up past infancy. Her husband drowned on his sailing boat. After that she moved back to England with her boy (who went on to inherit his grandfather's estate - they both lived off an allowance the grandfather gave her although he didn't want anything to do with her). At this point Mary devoted herself to writing and raising her son. She never remarried. She did have lovers but Percy seems to have been truly her life long love. She remained close to her son even once he inherited the estate and married. She passed away in her early 50s of a brain tumor.

These are just the highlights but her life is full of writing, traveling, lovers, tragedies, partying and doing whatever she pleased but still keeping a level head. It seems to me Frankenstein was just a little blip in her life but I'm glad it's kept her remembered.

Yeah! I think you're right about obsession. Especially when you hype something up. You're always sure to be disappointed when reality doesn't meet up to expectations.

I started Franky! So it took me all of Disk 1 to finally realize that the large man the crew has seen on the horizon was George and that the guy they picked up was Franky. I originally through Franky was the guy writing the letters. I thought he was such a freaking whiner and that his sister was so unfortunate to have to read those letters lol But yeah, turns out the whiner is the ship captain and he's totally in love with Franky.

Anyway, I do think the setting of the story, in the middle of the north pole surrounded my mist and ice, is pretty darn cool. Perfect to send a chill up your spine as you hear the tale of the creation of a monster that as you reach the end of the tale you realize is out there close by.

I am interested to see if Franky can out whine the captain. And you guys were right, the transition between the letters and the narrative was odd.