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WhiskeyintheJar Romance
WhiskeyintheJar Romance rated it 4 years ago
Rereading this 20yrs after the first time was quite a different experience, I wish I had time to reread a lot of other books.Catherine's nativity was more pronounced, John and Isabella Thorpe made my blood pressure rise, the Gothic satire portion didn't play as big a part as I remembered, Henry was ...
Elentarri's Book Blog
Elentarri's Book Blog rated it 4 years ago
TITLE: Frankenstein AUTHOR: Mary Shelley PUBLICATION: Oxford World's Classics, 1818 Text PUBLICATION DATE: 2009 (originally 1818) FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 9780199537150 ___________________________ DESCRIPTION: Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein whe...
Merle
Merle rated it 6 years ago
This book was lovely, unexpected fun. After reading Mansfield Park and Persuasion in recent years, I concluded that Jane Austen’s work was not for me: their characters seemed bloodless, their heroines prim and infallible, their subject matter a tedious catalogue of the social lives of the independen...
The better to see you, my dear
The better to see you, my dear rated it 6 years ago
Why did I take this long to read this? From Austen's big six, this is the last I got to. I mean, I know what my reasoning was: satire and humour was not what I was looking for when I searched for an Austen volume. But I was wrong to, because this was a great romp. (On that note, one day I have to ...
Tannat
Tannat rated it 7 years ago
I went into this pretty blind aside from having heard that it counts as gothic and that it was apparently a kind of satire of gothic novels of the late 18th century. I'll definitely second calling it a gothic satire. I'd say its only real fault was was taking the satire a bit too far sometimes and t...
Melissa Wiebe's Blogs
Melissa Wiebe's Blogs rated it 10 years ago
I first read this book back in November when doing the Unputdownables readalong for this book. And like I said my previous review of this book, this book needed a second reading to understand it better (I read it the first time for the sake of saying said I had read the book) and also to appreciate...
Melissa Wiebe's Blogs
Melissa Wiebe's Blogs rated it 10 years ago
I first read this book back in November when doing the Unputdownables readalong for this book. And like I said my previous review of this book, this book needed a second reading to understand it better (I read it the first time for the sake of saying said I had read the book) and also to appreciate...
kneubeck
kneubeck rated it 10 years ago
Victor Frankenstein creates a monster, brings it to life and immediatly abhors it. He leaves his appartment and when he comes back the monster is gone. Meanwhile, the monster learns how to live, to speak, to read and to write by watching a family. He slowly loses faith in humanity because everyone h...
wordchasing
wordchasing rated it 11 years ago
Time for a re-read!Four for you, Mr Tilney, you go Mr Tilney.
BlondeBookBee
BlondeBookBee rated it 12 years ago
I'm having an inner conflict about who to feel sorry for. You have Frankenstein who has suffered a lot during this book but also did some bad things and you have the monster who did some horrible things but was abandoned by his creator. I think this is a great aspect of this book since it therefore ...
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