Oxford World's Classics (Paperback): Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text (Paperback)

from mcelhra

Frankenstein might be one of the most analyzed and reviewed books of all time. Whole books have been written about this book and its author Mary Shelley. I'm not a literary scholar so my review is going to be short and sweet. You can dig as deeply as you want to on your own time! My book club lik...

from octoberdad

An incredible book. I expected it to be different than all the various popular conceptions of the story, but I had no idea how those differences manifested nor how happy I was to encounter them. If you have not read this story before, you know is likely wrong, and delightfully so. I also much enj...

from slarsoncollins

Wow. What a book. Just goes to show things aren't always black and white, but that there are many shades of gray in between. The story centers around Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant scientist, who creates life in his laboratory. Driven by an insatiable desire to bring back the spark of life, he ...

from Stormrose

10/20. Ooo, halfway through the goal! Yay! (although this is a class book, so it doesn't really count...but whatever). I absolutely loved this book. Loved, loved, loved, loved. The fact that Mary Shelley wrote it when she was eighteen is stunning to me. It's got gothic, science fiction, philosoph...

from slarsoncollins

Wow. What a book. Just goes to show things aren't always black and white, but that there are many shades of gray in between. The story centers around Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant scientist, who creates life in his laboratory. Driven by an insatiable desire to bring back the spark of life, he ...