Originally Posted by
SnakeEyes
... I've now also read the original Frankenstein and I gotta say it's pretty dry. If I hadn't read the movie novelization first I probably would have given up on the original 10 pages in.
No less a personage than Stephen King has written "Mary Shelley is- let us bite the bullet and tell the truth- not a particularly strong writer of emotional prose (which is why students who come to the book with the expectations of a fast, gory read-expectations formed by the movies-usually come away feeling puzzled and let down)..."
I too realize that Shelley's novel is a bit dry. I prefer Bram Stoker's "Dracula" or perhaps a good Lovecraft tale.
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Jamie
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