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Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Start date: October 1, 2011

Finish date: October 31, 2011

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Nov 08, 2016 Misha rated it liked it

Shelves: classics, fantasy-sci-fi-apocalyptic-myths, british, gothic, 19th-century, made-into-a-movie-or-a-show, 1001-books

“No more let life divide what death can join together.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais

Here’s the truth. I didn’t personally connect to Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, though I very much wanted to – it didn’t ‘curdle my blood’ as Shelley had intended it to, perhaps due to the overexposure to the Frankenstein trope. However, I admire it and understand the significance of it in literary canon as well as its immense contribution to culture, hence the rating.

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Nov 09, 2011 Margie rated it really liked it

It takes a while for this novel to get going. There is a lot of self reflection which, although interesting, offers numerous opportunities for the reader to put the book down. And that's what happened with me. I truly enjoyed reading Frankenstein, but I put it down several times to read other novels. I kept thinking I'd get back to it later. I'm glad I did.

About half way through, the novel really picks up. Frankenstein becomes aware of the consequences of his actions and must make a difficult, a ...more

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