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Book: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Title: Frankenstein
Author: Mary Shelley
Genre: horror
Book Number/Goal: 15/52
My Rating: 2/5
Notes: for Coursera Fantasy and Science Fiction course (reread)
Download: Project Gutenberg
Review:
A young scientist assembles an artificial human from dead people's organs, just to see if it can be done. He succeeds, but the result falls short of his aesthetic standards, so he immediately abandons the "monster", who escapes from the lab and haunts the scientist till his untimely death.
The main character is extremely unlikable. He's obsessed with appearances to such a degree that "ugly" is equivalent to "evil", and vice versa, for no reasons and without any explanations. Even worse, he's a wimp; his preferred method of dealing with problems is noble suffering. The monster is a somewhat better person; he knows what he wants and he acts upon it, and the part about his self-education, from his own POV, is quite touching.
The writing style is old-fashioned and long-winded, as expected from a novel published in 1818. There's not much sense in reading this novel, besides getting acquainted with the history of literature.
Author: Mary Shelley
Genre: horror
Book Number/Goal: 15/52
My Rating: 2/5
Notes: for Coursera Fantasy and Science Fiction course (reread)
Download: Project Gutenberg
Review:
A young scientist assembles an artificial human from dead people's organs, just to see if it can be done. He succeeds, but the result falls short of his aesthetic standards, so he immediately abandons the "monster", who escapes from the lab and haunts the scientist till his untimely death.
The main character is extremely unlikable. He's obsessed with appearances to such a degree that "ugly" is equivalent to "evil", and vice versa, for no reasons and without any explanations. Even worse, he's a wimp; his preferred method of dealing with problems is noble suffering. The monster is a somewhat better person; he knows what he wants and he acts upon it, and the part about his self-education, from his own POV, is quite touching.
The writing style is old-fashioned and long-winded, as expected from a novel published in 1818. There's not much sense in reading this novel, besides getting acquainted with the history of literature.