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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Wow. It wasn't at all what I expected. There are so many stereotypes about this book that are SOOO off, and I'm glad that I read it and found out what it was really like. If you think that Frankenstein is a stupid, green, square-headed monster, then you have to read this. It's really a very compell...
I think that pretty much everything has been said about this book, so this will be a quickie. I enjoyed the story, but the writing was tedious at times. I felt like the end dragged on for about 20 pages too long, honestly. I was also pretty frustrated by Frankenstein's willful ignorance and refusal ...
One of the few "horror" books I like. Very fun.
This book reads more like an economic manifesto than a work of fiction. A man from the late 1800s falls asleep and wakes up to find that he was in such a deep trance that it's now the year 2000. Nearly the entire book is a discourse on what has changed over the course of the century. Many of the cha...
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