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Summary: Will you guys chill out?
Review: I just don't believe this. People keep complaining about the language and the slow style. It was written in 1813 for crying out loud. Do you expect it tobe modern? Why can't people learn to get behind the language of the time, and read the story in it's pure form? For it's genre, Frankenstein is by far and away the best. It sends a deep and chilling message days, which is becoming all the more relavent as time goes on, about how all experiments must be carefully controlled. I really liked the book, despite it's old fashioned language. This is a great book for those who can understand it.
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Summary: I recomend this book to people who like suspense.
Review: In this book Dr. Frankenstien learns that life is not a toy. The reader learns that if you give life to something you should not abandon it.This book creates suspense in the reader. An example would be when Dr.Frankenstien abandons the monster. I recomend this book to people who like suspense.
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Summary: suprisingly enthralling
Review: When assigned to read this book or an English class, I couldn't decide if I was excited or not. I knew that I must read it since it is a timeless classic and seems so popular. But at the same time, I've read many books from the same time period that were unbearable to read. This book, however, was an exception. I finished it in no time because the plot was enthralling and the language easy to understand. It is a rather short novel that provides lots of suspense, so I suggest it to everyone. But I'll warn you, it greatly differs from the movie. But as always, the book is always better.
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Summary: Better than the movies
Review: Frankenstein is probably the story which has been the most mangled in the transition from book to film. The book is much deeper and more philosophic than the traditional Boris Karlov-type movie. Victor Frankenstein is not a mad scientist and his creature is not a grunting, stiff-limbed automaton. Victor brings his creature to life and then abandons him. All other humans which the creature encounters treat him cruelly (with the exception of a blind man who can not see him.) The creature is initially pure and gentle, and becomes evil only as a response to mankind's rejection and brutality towards him. As in all great stories, the characters here can represent many things. Victor can be read as a symbol of God, a creator who may or may not at times abandon us, or of mankind itself as we acquire ever greater scientific powers, the results of which we may not be able to control. The creature may symbolize Satan, who resented and challenged his creator, or Adam, who fell from grace because of his sin, or man himself, who may become evil in response to his environment. This book is perhaps the best story of good versus evil that I have ever read. Having seen some of the movies made in the horror genre from this story, I can definitely say that "the book was better."
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Summary: Good Idea, Poor Execution.
Review: Mary Shelley had an excellent idea when she wrote this book, however, she had a poor execution of it. This book is uneven, boring, wordy, and Mary Shelley is unable to express simple emotions like sorrow and pain in words. While this novel is generally thought-provoking, it could have been much, much better. Although it may have been a breakthrough at the time, today it simply fades into the background.
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Summary: crazed feminist
Review: Mary Wol was obviously a hard-core feminist, and given that her mother, like, invented the concept, it stands to reason. the proof? she has a "man" create a "man", and screws up, big time. like the only person that can create a man is a woman, via a uterus and stuff. definitely hard-core feminist, especially in the modern day when male folks of a particular persuasion are hoping to have artifical wombs and what not. and what does the artifical man need to stem his raving insanity? well, a girlfriend, of course. if you can't see the agenda behind this you're as thick as two planks, and probably believe in gun control.
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Summary: Fantastic Book
Review: Mary Shelley's superb storytelling style sucks you in to Victor Frankenstein's world. The first appearance of the monster sent chills up my spine. As I was reading the book I felt compassion for the monster and resentment at Victor for being so selfish and heartless.
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Summary: Good
Review: Frankenstien was pretty cool and it was really i ntresting
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Summary: Lovely Story Of Pariah & True Inhumaneness Of Humanity
Review: With lyrical language, the story of a university student who animates a creature composed of parts of various corpses unfolds, exposing the shallowness of the human mind and its immature horror of anything different or strange. The hideous creature that young Victor brings to life, is spurned by his creator and forced to find its own way in the world, which it finds is impossible due to general human hostility. Ultimately, it is the story of an irresponsible parent who makes a life he is unwilling and unable to care for, and the terrible results of such a mistake.
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Summary: Victor is the real monster!
Review: Mary Shelley's classic book has often been regarded as the first science fiction novel. Brian Aldiss has referred to it as the first novel of the Scientific Revolution. It should be required reading of any college or college-bound student. The version I read was the original 1818 edition. In 1831, Mary Shelley made a number of changes (but, nothing of great import; for example, in the 1831 version Elizabeth is no longer Victor's cousin). I did read the author's new introduction to the 1831 edition however. This introduction is well done. In this novel, written in the epistolary form, a young (age 21) student at the University of Ingolstadt, Victor Frankenstein, discovers the method of imparting life to inanimate tissue. He uses his skills to construct a creature and to give it life. The creature's and Victor's lives are intertwined and the reader can detect much of Mary Shelley's early life as well. Her mother (i.e., her creator) died a few days after her birth. The female act of creation and its results is an aspect of this novel. Others have pointed out that this is a true female novel. Although, the monster "inspires loathing" in all who see him, I came to the conclusion that the real villian in this story was Victor Frankenstein. He allows his own creation to control him.
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