I have to read this for school, but I really don't want to. :(
Has anybody read it? Is it any good? I love to read, but it doesn't look like a very interesting book.
So, if anyone can get me to want to read it, that'd be great!!
Thanks!! :wave:

Frankenstien has a book?

Frankenstien is a very difficult book to read. I'm a fast reader and it still took me about two and a half weeks to read it. So whatever you do, don't put off reading it until the last minute. Good luck. :)

Thanks! Cause I was planning on putting if off till the end of summer or even reading just the spark notes!!

Frankenstien has a book?

News to me, too :p

News to me, too :p

:lol:

Thanks! Cause I was planning on putting if off till the end of summer or even reading just the spark notes!!
sparknotes saved my butt way too many times in high school

Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

Haven't read it, but it seems like a lot of those books written in the 1800's had very "high-flung" language that makes it difficult for us to understand in the 21st Century.

Good thing Boris Karloff made a movie of it in the 20th Century. :cool:

Prometheus: a hero in Greek mythology who defies the gods by stealing fire for the benefit of mankind. They punish him by chaining him to a rock where he suffers horrendous fates (such as a bird of prey pecking at him) until Hercules releases him as part of his twelve labors.

Basically Frankenstein is a morality tale of what happens to people who "play God", that the results can be disastrous, in this case a scientist who "steals" the gift of life and imparts it onto the nonliving.

Well, I was right; it sounds pretty boring!

give it a shot, ive heard its excellent, though, ill admit, ive never read it :rolleyes:

That was the only book I never got through in high school. Some how I managed a 97 on the last test.

I agree with DAX that it is a hard book to read but reading isn't one of my strong points anyway so practically everything I pick up is difficult to read.

Hmm...I think I'll wait a few more days. Maybe read a book I'm interesed in, then read Frankenstien. I just hate reading books only because I have to, you know? Reading is supposed to be for enjoyment, not boredom! :mad:

I've read it before. It's no Harry Potter book I can tell you that. :lol:

I hated that book at first. The beginning is very boring. I almost didn't read it because I just couldn't take the beginning but it does get better eventually.

GOOD NEWS!! :)

I don't have to read it until the second semester!!! YEA!! :D

I've read it....I LOVED IT!

I read it this last year for English Literature. I'm not really into books from that era (it was published in the early part of the 1800s.) The descriptions were good, though.