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Oct 14, 2019
Steve
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it was amazing
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Review on the fly. I thought I had read this many years ago, and I'm certain I started it since the first 50 pages or so seemed familiar. But then things started getting different, and it was really a true gothic treat. That said, calling the novel "gothic" doesn't do Shelly justice, since Frankenstein at its heart (horrific murders aside) is a novel of ideas. Shelly can also be a wonderfully descriptive writer. There were a number of passages that I would rank highly as beautifully evocative pe
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Always wanted to read this short story around Halloween. Glad to have read the original. Feel like it would have been better edited down shorter.
Jan 24, 2017
Lisa of Hopewell
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really liked it
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Feb 21, 2017
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Jun 05, 2017
Joseph
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