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berlinbibliophile 's review for:
Frankissstein
by Jeanette Winterson
I think I'll be thinking about this novel for quite a while yet. Winterson switches off between several different storylines, and they each inform and enhance each other's meanings. There is the story of Mary Shelley writing "Frankenstein", a contemporary story about artificial intelligence, sex robots, and gender, and many more. But the question the novel revolves around is what makes someone a person. Is it the body? The brain? The soul? What do those terms even mean, and can we actually define concepts like intelligence, life, and death? Winterson does not answer these questions definitively in this book, but she certainly gave me food for thought and made me consider them in a new light. I'm not sure what to feel about the book now, but I do know that I enjoyed reading it and would recommend it, because I wanted to keep reading more.