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How on earth to rate this? It's good; there's a reason it's a classic. But I did not enjoy reading it. I had to make myself finish it.
It is a truism that Dr. Frankenstein is the real monster in this story. I do not enjoy monsters.
My husband likes to say that it's pertinent that Mary Shelley was pregnant when she wrote this, and oh yes, that resonates. The fear that you have created a monster, or will create a monster by being an abjectly terrible parent. I was terrified when I first got pregnant ...more
It is a truism that Dr. Frankenstein is the real monster in this story. I do not enjoy monsters.
My husband likes to say that it's pertinent that Mary Shelley was pregnant when she wrote this, and oh yes, that resonates. The fear that you have created a monster, or will create a monster by being an abjectly terrible parent. I was terrified when I first got pregnant ...more
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