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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

56 reviews

niles_reads's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I hate the author, I hate the book, I hate the fact I know how to read, I hate that I relate to the monster so much, I hate the ending, I HATE Victor Frankenstein and every other human in the book!

This book shattered me in ways I didn't think were possible. Waterfalls after waterfalls fell from my eyes. My heart squeezed with sadness and cried out in despair when I read the last sentence!
After everything the monster went through, to let the story end with that, is a sin itself.

Shame on you, Mrs. Shelley! I hope you're satisfied with the despair you caused!

Also, the story's gay as hell.

4.99 stars, since I won't forgive her for the ending…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

galindokait's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Murder, Abandonment

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, Confinement, Gun violence, Abortion

merita29's review against another edition

4.25

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Injury/Injury detail

breadrollkol's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I love this book to bits. I see why it’s a classic, it keeps aging like the finest of wines. And as time progresses, I’m sure this book will still hold up 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Murder

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death of parent

reallife_kazbrekker's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Complicated

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I can't believe I finally found another classic I love besides The Picture of Dorian Grey, this was so unexpected!

I absolutely loved the writing, the beauty of it definitely made up for how confusing the story got sometimes... But yeah I really loved the writing, it's some of the best writing I have read in a while!

Not usually a big fan of classics, eventho I read quite a decent amount of them, but I highly recommend this one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying

shanaya_ron's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The teachings of literature covers vast fields yet the most beautiful of it that of the human mind. The minds of the flawed characters represent the truest amalgamation of human interests, greed, ambition, love and knowledge.

Victor Frankenstein is one such great character whose wretchedness reaches the human heart and strikes at the dark doors of ambition. The monster whom I like calling adam, is by far my favourite character, his misery is grounded and his hatred justified for a being that did not receive anything but disdain, disgust and pain every time he reached out. While his body and mind were made by Victor, the monster was the creation of the world

. This is probably the second horror classic that I have read and I cannot help but look forward to parallel reading Frankenstein in Baghdad next.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body shaming, Death

hooraeitsmeme's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder

sashajwolf's review against another edition

2.5

dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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It's difficult for me to review this fairly, since Gothic horror is generally not to my taste. I read this for a challenge and would have dnf'd it otherwise. I recognise the role it played in the development of the horror and SF genres. However, I found the story unconvincing. It's a teenage work, and it shows. Characters make impulsive and implausible decisions, and the general atmosphere is overwrought. There are odd time jumps, and I had trouble suspending my disbelief at the creature's ability to educate himself. There are three narrators, but their voices are indistinguishable. Frankenstein's travels seem to be motivated by an authorial  desire to cram in as many picturesque landscapes as possible rather than any real contribution to the plot. The parallels between parenthood and creation are to me the most interesting aspect of the story, but are not adequately explored.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Classism

Minor: Mental illness, Alcohol

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

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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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Dysphoria

Moderate: Incest, Suicide, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent

Minor: Racism, Islamophobia

asparagusfern's review against another edition

4.25

dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book was a powerful and poignant fable about the dangers of creation. Surprisingly small at a mere 200 or so pages and with stripped-down, archetypal characters, I think Frankenstein succeeds not in spite of but because of this simplicity. The focus of the book is on the philosophical terror of creating life and then having no control over it, of realizing your mistakes too late and having no easy way to fix them. I was able to both hate and sympathize with Frankenstein and his monster.

In our modern world, with DNA editing, artificial intelligence and all sorts of biological and technological developments, I think the book’s message is as relevant today as it was in 1818. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Body shaming, Confinement, Grief, Stalking

Minor: Body horror, Colonisation