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Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Start date: October 1, 2014

Finish date: October 31, 2014

Discussion: Group Read Archive 2014-16

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Group Read Archive 2014-16

Genre Group Read (Humour) - December 2016 - You Are Not So Smart
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last updated Dec 28, 2016 04:05PM

Alternate Group Read (Classics) - December 2016 - Mansfield Park
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Dec 28, 2011 Faye rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy-scifi, british-literature

Yet another monster who felt perfectly justified in killing people because he couldn't get a girl.

Seriously, males of the world, this needs to stop being a thing. If Frankenstein's monster had been female, she would have set up that cottage really nice for herself, and just got on with the business of surviving. But nooooo, this guy wanted to bring a female into the world just to meet his needs, not thinking for a second that maybe she wouldn't want to meet his needs, and without seeming to care ...more

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Jan 11, 2011 Chinook rated it really liked it

Shelves: 500-women, 1001

Frankenstein is nothing like what I expected. I like it, but it's not the story I thought I knew.

I spent the entire damn book being annoyed with Frankenstein. If the stupid shit had taken responsibility for his creation from the beginning, none of the death and suffering that followed would have happened. It was interesting as well to get to read Polidori's The Vampyre and the inclusion of Byron's Fragment demonstrated that I much preferred Shelley's writing style.

Now I need to go and watch some ...more

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Nov 04, 2021 Elle rated it it was ok

Shelves: classic

2.5 stars.

Ugh. Classics are always hit or miss for me and this one was a hard miss. Sure, it's creative in terms of the monster creation, but the execution bored me to tears. Usually I enjoy an epistolary style novel, but not this one. The pacing was incredibly slow and the narration just did not do it for me. I could care less about the characters. I honestly would have DNF'd if this book was not a classic and even now I'm kind of kicking myself that I slogged through it. Life is too short. ...more

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Dec 14, 2011 Cathy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001books-to-read, social, classicos

Finalmente tomei coragem para ler este clássico. A história é um pouco diferente do que me recordava das versões cinematográficas. No entanto, é uma história que merece a pena ser lida, muito bem escrita. Penso que talvez pouco pormenorizada no que toca ao aspecto da criatura. Talvez também esperásse uma maior descrição dos ambientes para criar uma ideia de horror mais acentuada. (Masd isto pode ser só devido a estar a ler Lovecraft ao mesmo tempo).

Adorei as problemáticas humanas e sociais levan ...more

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Oct 27, 2014 Christina rated it it was amazing

A very sad, depressing read. I wonder what would have happened if Dr. Frankenstein had not run in horror from his creation at the beginning?

Creator vs. created. So exquisitely sad. Not for the feint of heart.

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