Frankenstein

Welcome back to the book club. I won't be able to read books fast enough to keep up with my posts, but for now I can.

So I read Frankenstein. I don't usually read anything but non-fiction, but if a fiction book is really famous, its like it moves into non-fiction. I got into the idea of reading it because I saw the movie on TV. I recorded it anyway. I decided I would read the book, then watch the movie. By the movie, I mean the original with Bela Lugosi.

It turns out the book is way different from the movie or what most people think what Frankenstein is all about. The movie is cool as that is where the legend really began. Frankenstein looks like you think he should, the townspeople are after him, there are graveyards, lightning, Victor saying "He's alive".

The book is interesting, but way, way different. Where the monster comes to life is hardly mentioned. Victor Frankenstein (he's the creator) was a science nerd and decided he could create life. He did. It takes about a page to do it. What happens in the rest of the book? Not a whole lot. Victor regrets his action. The monster roams the countryside and learns to speak and read and all kinds of things by spying on people. That seems a bit implausible, but then again so does the whole premise of the book. The monster confronts Victor about how he abandoned him to the world. He talks Victor into building a mate for him. But Vic changes his mind and doesn't do it. Oh, that really ticked off the monster. He went on a killing spree. A good book and not super long, but don't read it looking for the typical view of this story.