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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

141 reviews

lawphenix's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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vi_violetrose's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A classic that was far ahead of its time. It’s honestly incredible how true to life the ideas presented here are, despite being incredibly subversive for the time it was written.

One of the more interesting stories that use an unreliable narrator, given the multiple layers of narration within each other.

I loved that we didn’t hear from the creature directly (since his story was told from Victor’s recollection, who is obviously biased) until the very end (and even then not directly because Walton, who has been influenced by Victor, is telling it).

Though sometimes I felt like Victor would reiterate the same points a bit too much in his narration, and some parts were a bit slow, I don’t have any major issues with the novel. Even then, I felt like there was a point to Victor constantly rehashing how miserable he was.

The prose is beautiful, and the dialogue, especially from the Creature, is striking. This is a book that 100% deserves its status as a classic.

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lang_junxias_therapist's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

did mo xiang tong xiu read this before writing mdzs i need to know (also i think Walton and Frankenstein should kiss btw)

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bubbles13's review against another edition

3.75

challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I liked how the story explores the themes of ambition,loneliness and moral responsibility as Frankestein created a living being (monster) which mirrors him and this led to tragic consequences. It is slow placed but thought provoking.

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puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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pozo67's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Made me shudder, cry then shudder again! Deep book that made me think a lot - more protagonist vs antagonist than hero v villain although the creature is really scary and does imo some unforgiveable things. Found the relationship between Elizabeth and Victor really weird - at the time would it be seen as normal to essentially adopt a girl so your son could marry her later? To me, that's a sibling. But it made more sense of why the monster thought Frankenstein could just be made for him. The language (a result of lasting the test of time!) and the philosophy slowed down my reading but I do like to think, pretty philosophical novel with no easy answers. Considering the time, it was fairly progressive about class and race, while the old fashioned notions of gender weren't modern but were brilliantly chivalrous rather than misogynistic (Elizabeth must be protected at all costs!). I think next time I read, I'll hold off til winter - it was hard to imagine all the ice on a sunny day! Skipped rather too fast over the scary bits at times.

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