It's ok. I also watched the 1931 Frankenstein movie with Boris Karloff over the weekend, and it seems many of the popular aspects of Frankenstein come from the 1931 movie, rather than the novel which was written in 1818. The movie has Victor Frankenstein as a mad scientist, robbing graves for body parts with his hunchbacked assistant, and creating the monster in his laboratory with lightning and thunder crashing around. None of this is even in the original novel. The popular look of the monster, with his flat-topped head and bolts in his neck, lumbering around and grunting, is totally different from how the creature is portrayed in the novel as well. The 1994 movie Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, with Kenneth Branagh and Robert DeNiro, is much closer to the novel than the 1931 movie. But the 1931 movie was alot more fun.

Mary Shelley was 18 years old when she wrote her book, and it does read like a girl wrote it. There is alot of flowery language, and very little action (so far - I'm not done reading the book yet). I'm liking it well enough, but I can see where some readers would be bored with it.

I'm having a re-match with Samuel Beckett's short
stories. Love it but they are far from easy to
follow in English for a Swede. And he wrote many
of them in French to begin with Those Irish...

Thanks for the insight longshot. I didn't know that. Us she a good writer?

I finished reading Frankenstein, and I ended up really enjoying it. Shelley's writing wasn't what I first expected it to be, but it grew on me the more I read. It turned out to be a great book, IMO.

I started reading that a long time ago but couldn't get into it, maybe I'll give it another try.

Shelley was a very good writer!

I just bought a H.P. Lovecraft
that I will start reading tomorrow.

Corrections - Jonathan Franzen

Johan Franzen is a Swedish striker in Detroit Red Wings.
Who's Jonathan?

an author

I love the movie "the town" and while I awaits its release on Bluray I am reading this great book it was based on.

Very good stuff.