Frankenstein

"Frankenstein was so fun to read. I LOVED hating on Victor throughout the novel. He’s a pos and honestly deserved worse than he got. The structure of story telling was captivating because it switches between three points of view and each reveals a little bit of something we didn’t know before. I found the creature’s chapters sympathetic and full of lush descriptions. I also think there’s so many ways to interpret the message of this book and I loved having discussions about it."

"Everyone should read it, but like Dracula it is not the easiest to get through for modern readers."

"The book of my high school years is thought provoking and greatly written. "

"IN SHORT THIS BOOK BLOWS MAJOR ASSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!<br/><br/><spoiler> OK so the first few chapters were pretty boring talking about victor Frankenstein childhood, but they were acceptable.<br/>At the age of 17, Victor leaves his family's house to go to college where he studies for 2 years. He then gets started on the monster it takes 2 long years to complete. But after he gives it life it becomes ugly, not really a surprise considering he made it 8 feet tall and all its body parts were distorted when he found him. So the ****** runs in fear of what he just created, and eventually he goes to sleep only to wake from a nightmare with the monster standing over him. He runs out of the house where he eventually meets up with his childhood friend Henry.<br/><br/>Before I go any further let me say one very important thing; the only description of the monster you ever get is that it is so ugly that words cannot describe it. WHAT THE **** KIND OF DESCRIPTION IS THAT?????<br/><br/>So anyway Victor takes Henry back to his house and is thrilled that the monster was not there, so thrilled in fact he gets a fever. 2 more years goes by when finally he decides to go back to his family. The day he leaves he gets a letter from his father that his brother has been murdered. When he gets to his hometown the first thing he does, even before going home to his family, is go to where his brother had been murdered. There he sees off in the distance the hideous demon he created. From that moment on he knows it killed his brother William but when he gets to his house they already have the culprit his adoptive sister Justine who had the necklace William was wearing when he was killed. Justine is executed for the crime.<br/><br/>Victor then goes in to the mountains to kill the monster. When he finally finds it, it asks him to listen to its story and its one request, he does:<br/><br/>come to find out the monster has had a terrible first 2 years no will speak to him, everyone thinks he’s a monster even though he's actually kind hearted. He watched this one family for months only to be shunned by them. He then wanders around some more when he finally sees a boy barely out of infancy, William, (FYI William was 16) who he thought wouldn't fear him because he was so young well he does. When William mentions that his father would kill it if it kidnapped him, which was the monster's plan go figure. but hearing the name Mr. Frankenstein the monster becomes in raged for it's the name of his creator who he hates more than anything else strangles the kid and steals his necklace when he runs in to a barn and sees a girl sleeping he becomes enraged at the fact she would never smile at him and puts the necklace in her pocket, so she, Justine, would be blamed for his crime. All this came to be from the misery that is solitude, as they say misery loves company. Which leaves us with his request which is for Victor to create a second creature, a female companion?<br/><br/>Victor eventually agrees he leaves his home for England so he can be alone for work and research. His family sends Henry with him<br/>But they split up in Scotland where Victor begins his next creation. When he almost finished the monster appears and is smiling at him, Victor then begins to have second thoughts and rips his new creation apart. The monster then runs away and kills Henry. <br/>When Victor gets home he marries the love of his life Elizabeth, on their wedding night as Victor waits for the return of his monster. His wife goes to bed, and the monster kills her. When Victor tells his father this his father becomes ill and dies a few days later.<br/><br/>Victor than goes on a search for the monster where he eventually gets stranded on a piece of ice somewhere in Russia. He is saved by a man named Walton, who we come to find is the person Victor’s telling the story too.<br/>Walton than takes over the narrative, Victor is now dying of illness and the only thing keeping him alive is his thirst, his need, for vengeance but even that can't keep him alive and he dies anyway without his task fulfilled. The night of his death the monster than boards the ship and is standing over Victor's coffin when Walton finds him. the monster than tells Walton how sorry he is and that he came to beg Victor for his forgiveness, he regrets everything he did and killing people who had nothing to do with his rage for his creator was a mistake he wishes he could fix. He then states he is going north so he will die of the cold, and jumps off the ************* ship and disappears in the night and the book ******* ends. That’s it. Victor dies and the nameless monster he created lives even after he murdered all those people.</spoiler> <br/><br/>There are no words to describe how ugly the monster was and no words could ever describe how horrible this load of **** was, how it has survived 200 years I will never ******* know: I HATE YOU MARY SHELLEY <br/>"

"Thanks! Do you mean an overall favorite or a favorite within a certain genre?"

"OK, so I seem to have really known nothing about the original Frankenstein story. Turns out, there is no Igor and the monster ends up with a wonderful command of language. There is also a tremendous lack of action, so I am very glad I listened to this instead of reading it or I never would have finished. I will say, though, I now understand the beginning of the movie I, Frankenstein much better."

"Another great classic read. If you haven’t read the story of Frankenstein I highly recommend. It was one of those stories that when I first read it I was hmm this is nothing that I thought it was or that I thought I knew of Frankenstein. "

"There is no better time to read this classic! It's perfect for both the Halloween season, and it's especially being highlighted since New Year's 2018 will celebrate the 200th anniversary of this enduring novel. It's remarkable for several reasons, not least of which is was written by a woman (#badass). It's really cool to be able to read the source materials for one of the most iconic monsters of all time.<br/><br/>That all being said, I definitely didn't love it as much as I had hoped, though part of that was my fault since I went in with my own pre-conceived notions. It was still a really interesting tale, I was just put off by the structure and dialogue. Still, it's short and definitely worth the read!"

"A misunderstood character. Love and companionship. Wonderful "

"Really good not what I expected based on what Frankenstein is like in movies but the age makes it kind of hard to read"