It had me thinking about the theory that all horror movies are modern day cautionary tales, reinforcing the rules and taboos of our society and showing the macabre fate of those who transgress. Such a reading on Frankenstein has Victor Frankenstein, creator of the monster, thoroughly castigated for his greed for knowledge. The early parts of the story has him describing the feverish state in which he worked and worked to finish his creation. He even says something to the effect that «nobody who has never done research can understand the hypnotizing effect it has» - painting it like drug abuse or at the very least a serious vice. How biblical! ( )

I have been trying to read this book for months, but that doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy it. It's a great scary story with plenty of misery and death to satisfy the best scary story lovers. Shelly's writing is incredible, some of her passages really stuck with me and I am amazed at how young she was when she wrote it. Really enjoyed it, but don't think I'll pick it up again anytime soon. ( )

I really didn't like this one. Maybe it's because of all the hype about it - surely after that anything would be a letdown.

The reason I didn't like it was this: I felt that the themes of the novel were very interesting (knowledge, humanity, etc.) but I felt the execution was poor. Some key events in the novel depended on far too convenient plot devices (The monster needs to learn about humankind and morality! Oh, look, there's a random suitcase of philosophy texts lying in the woods! How convenient!) and because of that for me the plausibility of it suffered. And I KNOW it's meant to be a fantastic as opposed to realistic story, but I feel that with really, really good writing an author can make readers believe in things that are fantastic and implausible - and the writing in this book definitely didn't do that. Giving it two stars only because it's remained popular this long, so I suppose there must be something going for it. ( )

I thought I knew quite a bit about this story, but it wasn't really what I expected after all (which was a pleasant surprise). Overall, I thought the book was okay, but it was hard to keep moving forward at times. Also, sometimes it seems like main events are barely even mentioned, while descriptions of 'less important' things and details go on forever.

Glad I read it once, but probably won't re-read. ( )

I sorry for the monster who was made by scientist Victor Frankenstein. Victor wanted to only know the secret of life.
So he made the monster. He didn't think of what will doing after that.
The monster was dislike everyone because he is big and has ugly face. The last is not happy.
I felt painhul while reading this book. ( )