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I selected this classic for the 2016 BookRiot Read Harder category "Read a horror book." Now that I've finished the book, I also plan to watch the 1931 movie adaptation ("Frankenstein") and 1935 sequel ("Bride of Frankenstein"), which would have also fit another BookRiot Read Harder category ("Read a book that was adapted into a movie, then watch the movie. Debate which is better."). I somehow escaped my schooling without having read this classic gothic tale of horror, and I'm glad to say that I
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Update: Reread again in January 2023 with my high schoolers, and I enjoyed it much more the second time through…so bumping it up a star. I forgot how much death is in this book, but I sympathized with the monster this time around and kind of thought Victor was an idiot. Mostly, I appreciated the craft of writing that young Mary Shelley mastered in this book.
Oct 2017:
I was surprised that I didn't really like this book. It is a classic that has descriptions of bleak landscapes, which I am all ab ...more
Oct 2017:
I was surprised that I didn't really like this book. It is a classic that has descriptions of bleak landscapes, which I am all ab ...more
How many times can an author use the word 'wretch'? It still remains a wonderful meditation on the human spirit, the strive of amibition and what it means to be a monster.
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Sep 27, 2010
Beth Given
marked it as to-read
