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ItemImageAmazon.com's review of "Frankenstein": Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece.

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Strijdom (8)
09/15/2008
A wonderful book that explores many of the most important human attributes, by contrasting what is human with what is monster. No monster story can compare with this, as the monster really tries to do what it believes to be right rather than rampage senselessly like in modern day simpler incarnations.

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somalicat (11)
03/23/2007
Too bad no movie has truly done justice to this great novel. And justice is a key word. It's more than just horror and science fiction, but a commentary on society. Mary Shelley couldn't help it: after all, her parents were Mary Wollstonecraft (one of the first modern feminists) and William Godwin (erstwhile supporter of the French Revolution and quasi-anarchist) and her husband was also a wanna-be Tom Paine-turned poet--Percy Bysshe Shelley (yes, you read his Prometheus Unbound in college!). Frankenstein was and is still a powerful reflection on the evils prejudice: man creates "monster" and abandons him on account of his ugliness; monster tries to do good but is punished by society for the same reason; monster avenges himself on society, etc. In short, injustice only creates and perpetuates further injustice because man can sometimes be more monstrous than a monster. (Film adaptations--with the possible exception of Branagh's in 1994--tend to focus on the ugliness and evil of the monster: precisely the opposite of what MS was trying to convey.) It's a truly perceptive work for a sixteen-year-old writer.

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numbah16tdhaha (156)
10/31/2006
Psst... MARY Shelley. A woman wrote this! I hate to throw things and make fun, but... wait, I don't. Anywho, she wrote this during the "year without a summer" if I remember right and that is the cause of all the dreary images in the book. To think that if a volcano hadn't blown its top that this book may not have ever been written!

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CanadaSucks (50)
10/31/2006
Grandfather of science-fiction. . .underrated and often overlooked in the canon. . .

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oscargamblesfro (81)
10/31/2006
A fine, thoughtful, prescient book, sort of on the border between science fiction and horror. As I'm sure most of you know, the Karloff movies are quite different in many respects from what actually occurs in the novel. I actually haven't read this since I was about 15, but remember liking it.

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trebon1038 (65)
07/08/2006
Frankenstein is one of the best books I ever read. It is so different from most movie portrayals and Mary Shelley had some real insight to human feelings. (and in this case human feelings in a NON human!)

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