I've only read Frankenstein, though I do also know a fair bit about Mary herself. She was only about my age when she began writing Frankenstein, a die-hard romantic. Shelley's writing style is exceedingly loquacious and she has a tendency to indulge in extremely vivid metaphor. I suppose the goodness of this depends on the reader's disposition, but I'm rather fond of it. Shelley was a bit of an oddball herself and like the monster in her book was not raised by her creator (her mother died conceiving her), as such I see much of her personal feelings coming through in her writing which makes the central warning about social alienation all the more powerfully conveyed in her angsty masterpiece.

What a great book, one of the best monsters ever created.

"Frankenstien" was a brilliant book and a great read.

she obviously put a lot of effort into this book, but it just started to bore me more & more as I read along.However the story line was good and it has all the criteria to make into a brilliant film!

The only thing I have read by her is Frankenstein, but it's a good book.

I feel fairly certain that this woman was a prodigious genius. After I read her masterpiece several years ago I had no doubt that she was an extremely gifted writer. It is difficult to believe that she penned “Frankenstein” at the youthful age of nineteen - though, when you think about it - it is when we are young and still not exactly sure of what lives in the back of our closets that our imaginations are more capable of creating such things. She said it started in a dream – which is an interesting tale by itself. I know I was surprised when I read the book at how the “monster” – unlike his usual screen persona – is much more pathetic and sad than he is ever really evil. He is more like an unwanted and abandoned child than a homicidal maniac. As a matter of fact, I can’t remember ever feeling more heartbroken for a fictional character than I did for this one. Shelley very skillfully draws the reader into the creature’s sense of hopelessness and despair which is so obviously the result of an ego driven man who has gone too far in trying to play God. Absolutely timeless stuff!

If you look into the eyes of a picture of Mary Shelley, you see a great woman, and a gifted writer. Frankenstein was an extremly long and tiring book, but it has to be called classic because of all of the work that the woman put into it.

Wonderful author. Did you know at age nineteen she wrote her first novel? Frankenstein. This book has become an important classic. Read this book. Then watch the Karloff movie. You will be amazed that it is out of context with the book. Take Mary Shelley seriously as an author. She has true imagination and stands by herself without the help of her husband, Percy.

I loved Frankenstien. I got really into that book. I think her writing is really descriptive and the story has so much meaning.

Boring and outdated