A very absorbing tale. Because I have seen so many versions of Frankenstein on TV. Hammer House Horror, the old Boris Karloff style movies. There are so many different presentations that I did not know what to expect. The way it all began was splendid and the whole experience was glorious and Gothic. Victor Frankenstein creates an eight-foot-tall man from dead body parts. The scientific project is a hideous creation that Frankenstein finds himself disgusted with. The crux of the story is that this wretched eight-foot monster can't accept his creator's rejection. The monster comes back to haunt Frankenstein and shower misery upon him with devious and murderous means of close relatives. Frankenstein is caught up in a battle of his own conscience as the ghoulish giant monster blackmails him for his own contentment and happiness. This story is a fabulous masterpiece. I am so pleased I read this. The Last Days of Thunder Child: Victorian Britain in chaos!
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A good story with many interesting characters. The classic text is far deeper than the various screen versions that have appeared since 1900.
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I have never actually read Frankenstein until a couple I picked it up to read due to it being on my required reading for my final year at University. I have seen and watched several reimagining's on TV and movies centred around Frankenstein's monster. I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed this novel that I have only hours ago finished reading. I can't explain it fully, but when I started to read this novel, I felt as if I was face to face with Frankenstein himself. Throughout the novel, you feel for both Frankenstein and the monster itself, and the ending is sorrowful that part of me is hoping that Shelley may have written a secretive sequel to Frankenstein that is yet to be found. First time reading this novel, and already I am impressed by it. I will definitely be reading this again in foreseeable future.
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Her writing style is beautiful and really elicits empathy for the real first victim of the story, the `monster' himself. I was reading it whilst researching the concept of trans-humanism, which is being discussed a lot these days online. I thought it might serve as some kind of warning of dangers that might exist in this area, much like Orwell's novels warned of the world that is emerging right now. Being married to the poet Shelley probably enhanced her creative writing abilities as well. No wonder that a horror story became such a classic.
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Read this for a book group I belong to, we decided to read something from the GCSE book lists A totally different story to what I was expecting, but one filled with misery and disappear both at what Frankenstein had created and in the monster and his life. Easy to see why this is still on the GCSE book list, a lot if different aspects for pupils to write about.
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This is one of my favourite classic novels, that I never used to like when i studied it in school. However, reading it again at my own pace and for myself, I got to actually appreciate the writing and the work behind it and it rapidly became one of my favourites and one of the few books that I have often re-read. The writing and the heartache that takes place within the story, is so tragic and unnecessary.
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I read this as it was being talked about a lot recently (200th anniversary). I was really amazed that Mary Shelley had written this novel when she was only 18 years old. She was also writing about places she had only read about e.g. the Arctic, but I was able to visualise everything so well. I did feel sorry for the monster and I thought his feelings of rejection were well described. Sometimes I wanted Frankenstein to stop feeling sorry for himself and realise he had caused so much misery. The author does describe depression very well and I feel she must have read a lot about the subject. I am very glad that I have read this classic. So many people will not know the true story and some will even think Frankenstein is the name of the monster-but in a way Victor Frankenstein was a monster too.
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School recommended for my 15 year old son who has just finished his mocks. Good price, good quality and delivery.
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Nice story, and arrived quickly
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You'll never be able to take side in this story. For the parts where Dr Frankenstein narrates , we feel sympathy for him and disgust for the creature. On the contrary, when the creature narrates, you feel that he has been wronged by Dr and those nice people who loath him just for his distorted and wretched appearance. The author has ended the book with narration from the creator and that part is probably the best disquisition on ethics in science and overall morals of men. It is a classic for a reason.
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Excellent read: very different to the movies. Even the monster creation was an insightful biochemical process which was astonishing for being written 200 years ago. The opening chapter was so different to what I was expecting that I checked a few times to see if I had opened the wrong book.
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