Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

I was just wondering about people's thoughts on this book! I've had very mixed opinions on it! Personally I loved this book, but as most of my friends were forced to read it for GCSE's they hated it! What do you think?

I read this book a few years ago (in the Dutch translation) I think it was a rather good story. But I found it hard to come into it. In the begining nothing is happening and I thought it was boring. But when the story really starts and Frankenstein starts working on his self-made man, I liked it.
And a good thing I found out, was that the created man wasn't as horrible as always shown, but that he has feelings but isn't understand. So I think it's a good read!

The Book Club has read it some time ago. Here is the link if you'd like to have a look: http://www.online-literature.com/for...ead.php?t=2167

I read it at the end of 6 plays in 12 weeks of summer stock theater in R.I., after all our work was done. Really thought it was amazing. Actually, Frankenstein was our last play, and we were so bad that we almost all jumped on the train and headed back to NYC, but stuck it out.

we read the novel this term for our gothic literature course in the third year at uni and my god was it awful. the story is overwritte and, having written a 4000 word essay on it just a few days ago, i can tell you that its bloated with meanings that don't work together well. a good idea just executed poorly by a woman who couldn't write then or ever.

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I read it one year ago and I loved it. It left me sort of disturbed for a while...i sympathised with the monster far too much. I loved its themes, I found really sad how the monster was judged only for his appearance at first, and i honestly found it hard to blame him for becoming evil (my favourite quote: I am malicious because I am miserable)... I really liked all the thems I found in the book, mainly because most of them are stuff that usually catch me in a book. In the past few years I havent felt deeply passionate about many books, but Frankestein was one that made me really feel and get involved in it. (I wish I could NOT write like Mary Shelley... :eek: )

When I was reading this book I had to write a Monologue for the monster before we read on to find out if he had or had not murdered Frankenstein's brother! I had so much fun doing that and I had already made up my mind that he hadn't done it and the true murderer was Frankenstein himself, maybe not the murderer of hs brother but the murderer of the monsters feelings and chance in life!