Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus

The story gets 5*, but the ebook format loses a star. The ebook didn't keep track of the pages properly. It only told me what % of the book remained. I also wasn't always able to access the dictionary/ thesaurus (to me, that is the best part of having an ebook).

Overall I liked the book; it was fun to read and the detailed descriptions of the scenery in it were wonderful. However, I think there are a few major flaws with it. First, the moral of the story was to not judge a book by its cover. The author conveyed this theme by making the Frankenstein monster sympathetic and a good being until he was mistreated by man because of his ugliness. However, the Frankenstein monster was also a serial killer who strangled 3 innocent people. Yes, he had been mistreated by man, but that didn't justify him killing three people. To me that appears as though he was actually pretty evil, which means that he could be judged by his ugliness in a way. Also, Victor Frankenstein is the most selfish and stupid hero I've ever read in a book. He is completely obsessed with himself and never once considers the dangers his actions may have on others. Reading his thoughts in the book made me frustrated over his stupidity more than once.

I knew going into this book it was going to be starkly different from the movie, but I still had hope that I would enjoy it. Sadly, I did not find much to enjoy. It feels overtly stuffed with flowery language (I know this was made around the period where romanticism was made but still) and uninteresting. It's a book where a man creates a human being who then goes and kills people, and yet it's still very uninteresting. I had this book on my shelf for a while, but I never got to actually reading until my English professor asked us to do a paper on it. Writing a paper about something is pretty easy if your interested in the subject matter of said paper. One can guess how much I disliked this book by how the paper I had to do on it was the most excruciating paper I've ever written.