Frankenstein in All Challenges All The Time

Feb 26, 2019 Michelle Stockard Miller rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: owned, fantasy-sci-fi, horror-have-read, read-in-2019

I can't believe I waited so long to read this book. I've read Dracula three times. I recently watched the film, Mary Shelley. I immediately picked this up to read. While somewhat more wordy than Dracula, in my opinion (I enjoy Dracula's epistolary format), I liked its insight and observations on mankind. How we so often have difficulty looking beyond the physical appearance to what the person is like inside. How we judge and underestimate on appearances alone. I would even go so far to say that ...more

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Sep 17, 2012 Carrie marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: own, read-my-shelves

*Edit: Writing this here as a reminder for myself. Read this book before the year 2014 is over, preferably within the the next few months (July 31/14)

I've read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Novelization but not the real book, which I've had on my shelves for years and keep on meaning to get too. ...more

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Nov 23, 2011 Rabbit {Paint me like one of your 19th century gothic heroines!} rated it really liked it

Shelves: buddy-reads-r-social-life, fiction, dark, palate-cleanser, four-stars, ebook-free, historical, classics, books-i-read-with-hot-tea, old-school-gothic

This was beautiful. I loved her style.

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Nov 04, 2021 Elle rated it it was ok

Shelves: classic

2.5 stars.

Ugh. Classics are always hit or miss for me and this one was a hard miss. Sure, it's creative in terms of the monster creation, but the execution bored me to tears. Usually I enjoy an epistolary style novel, but not this one. The pacing was incredibly slow and the narration just did not do it for me. I could care less about the characters. I honestly would have DNF'd if this book was not a classic and even now I'm kind of kicking myself that I slogged through it. Life is too short. ...more

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Nov 07, 2011 Zhana rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: library, read-in-bulgarian, classics

First of all I just want to say that the writing style of the author is amazing...but for me this was not a horror novel. The story - very original and amazingly thought provoking, was portrayed in a very captivating way. The characters, although very well built, were not very likeable. I hated the protagonist of the story until the very end. I was just so pissed off by his stupidity (I mean...how can you create something...a living thing...and then just leave it like that...really, how stupid c ...more

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