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Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Start date: October 1, 2013

Finish date: October 31, 2013

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Aug 17, 2011 Kevin Xu rated it liked it

Shelves: re-read

I love the book, but I hated how much additional material was in the book.

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Mar 01, 2014 Ben rated it really liked it

Summary: Driven guy takes things a bit too far and ends up creating something that destroys everything:

Things I liked.

Introducing the main protaganist through the eyes of a secondary category. This reminded me a bit of Gatsby and Nick.

Good questions/ideas: The 'Other', obsession, what is human etc. Good fodder for thinking/rethinking about what you believe.

Things I thought could be improved:

Main character is pretty whiney, and doesn't really take a lot of responsbility for his actions. It m ...more

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Jun 17, 2009 Cathy rated it it was amazing

A classic and very well written. Not what you think it would be based on the Hollywood versions you've seen. The Flashback, layered format of the narrative is intriguing. The Freudian notion of the Id, Ego and Superego is well developed as Dr. Frankenstein sleeps when the Monster comes out to speak, and then awakes when the Monster disappears. For a book that came about as a dare as to which of these friends, Mary Shelley, Percy Byssch Shelley, and Gordon Lord Byron could tell the best scary tal ...more

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Aug 05, 2009 Lisa rated it it was amazing

A great novel about goodness and evil in both man and what he creates. Dr. Frankenstein was the dark character, and while the creature was hedious, his spirit was very beautiful in that he only wanted what his creator was taking for granted: to life and to be loved. Beautifully written, very deep and profound, yet very disturbing and frightful.

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