Frankenstein

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4.5
602 reviews
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7 hr 13 min
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A young scientist Victor Frankenstein experiments with creating a humanoid creature. His creation, the Creature, doesn't turn out as he expects and results in unintended consequences that devastate Victor. The story is told in the form of a correspondence.

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4.5
602 reviews
Jacob Guidry
9 October 2024
Good for a reading assignment, bad for enjoyment. The AI voice mispronounces words since the language has evolved and that old context is missing from its data. The voice itself is monotonous and draining to listen to. It also confuses past and present variants of words like saying "I read [past tense] and reread [present tense] the letter..." The book itself is a bit slow and rough to listen to, talking about the strange circumstances of how his father and mother met when she just dies in what feels like three pages anyway and that context becomes useless. TL;DR - There are all sorts of issues with the book itself, but it would be better with a human narrator.
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Traci Ross
10 September 2024
The AI reading is very good. It'd be helpful if the voice varied by character like a human-read narrator would do. The book, in the other hand, is overrated. Wow. Even for the era, the author is unnecessarily repetitive and wordy. Truly disappointed.
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Gary D (Unhacker)
23 October 2022
Love it! Yes it's a computer voice but the best quality and most natural currently available. Free reading of a sci fi/horror classic? Yes please, keep these coming Googs!
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About the author

Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote numerous novels and is most well-known for Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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