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Somewhere between 3.5-4 for me. This dense classic required my full focus at times to follow what was going on and who was relating it to whom. The creature was so pitiful, and gave plenty to think about on the topics of loneliness, belonging, acceptance, but also questioning who is God, and who is creature?
Should people play God? Shelley makes a case for no.
This is another classic I wouldn't have been able to handle as a teenager, but I'm glad I picked up now. ...more
Should people play God? Shelley makes a case for no.
This is another classic I wouldn't have been able to handle as a teenager, but I'm glad I picked up now. ...more
Re read this book for Halloween scare. This time around I found myself just annoyed with Victor. I feel like the entire story was him whining about all the horrible things in his life and yet it was by his own making! I felt like he took no responsibility in making the monster, and then when it woke and he didn’t like it, he ran and avoided it. It was sad and depressing all around, all the deaths of his loved ones and also the sad life of the monster. Still a classic tale, but very different fro
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2018 Goodreads Summer Reading Challenge: Read a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't. It seems like Frankenstein is on a lot of high school curriculums, but it wasn't at my school. We ended up reading Dracula instead.
2018 PopSugar Reading Challenge: Read a book that is set at sea. Victor is relaying his narrative to Walton while on a ship in the North Atlantic. ...more
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