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I was surprised by this. Been needing/wanting to read it for many years now, and it wasn't anything I expected. First, who knew it would be so much easier to sympathize with the monster than Frankenstein? Frankenstein is incredibly lame! A "romantic" character, overflowing with pathos, and yet just so...lame. I guess the real value of this is what it teaches us about the context in which it was written: the way that nature is continuously described as beautiful, sublime, etc, versus the artifici
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On NPR's list of top 100 sci if & fantasy
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It is one of the saddest story I've ever read.
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This was okay, but I thought that Shelley was too obvious about the plot. I think by trying to build suspense she instead telegraphed what was going to happen.
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I liked this book way more than I thought I would. It wasn't what I expected and led to a great book club discussion about the importance of ethics in science, what it means to be human, and what makes a "monster."
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