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One of the exceptions to the rule. I prefer the films (and some are rubbish I must admit) to the book. Not exactly boring, Mary Shelley does have a way with words, but too little details and too much impossibility. I still really don't know how Frankenstein constructed his monster, he just did it. And this monster is an unhappy monster, but takes revenge because no-one loves him. In the end he just drifts away to the setting sun somewhere at the North Pole and decides to commit suicide in a fire
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“When I looked around, I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned ?”
Angkat tangan buat yang kenal nama Frankenstein ? Saya yakin, banyak banget yang tahu dengan nama Frankenstein karena buku ini memang salah satu buku klasik terkenal. Anehnya, walaupun buku ini terkenal, masih saja banyak salah kaprah yang menganggap kalau Frankenstein itu adalah nama makhluk horor yang diceritakan di dalam buku ini. Sebelum sa ...more
Angkat tangan buat yang kenal nama Frankenstein ? Saya yakin, banyak banget yang tahu dengan nama Frankenstein karena buku ini memang salah satu buku klasik terkenal. Anehnya, walaupun buku ini terkenal, masih saja banyak salah kaprah yang menganggap kalau Frankenstein itu adalah nama makhluk horor yang diceritakan di dalam buku ini. Sebelum sa ...more

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