I am seriously considering making a shelf for 'characters-I-wish-I-could-kill' Soooo Frankenstein is such a jerk! This book would've gotten 1 star if there weren't those couple of chapters from the creatures perspective. The beginning doesn't add anything to the story and the letters are pretty poin...
From the start I was thrown for a loop. My expectations involved creepy mountain castles and electric storms not ships sailing the Arctic seas. The beginning wasn't the only thing that broke the mould of my expectations, for the novel as a whole was wholly other than that which I had envisioned it t...
A utopian political tract, more interesting for its glimpse into 19th-century radical political idealism than its literary qualities.Although largely forgotten today, 'Looking Backward' was apparently a runaway bestseller at the time of its publication, spawning dozens of social clubs devoted to imp...
...and so I was born! A man, and not a man; a life, and an un-life. Hair and lips of lustrous black, skin of parchment yellow, watery eyes of dun-colored white. The stature of a giant. A horror among men! And so my creator fled me, horrified of his creation. And so I fled my place of birth, to seek ...
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