Frankenstein(The Novel)

[buttonpresser4815]

Has anyone ever read it? I just decided to because it was laying around the house as a reading assignment for someone so I read it over vacation, on the plane, waiting in the terminal, riding up to Mt. St. Helens, etc. It was a very good concept, many credit Mary SHelly, the author, to be the founder of sci-fi, it having mentions of cryogenics and biotechnology(written around 1816) She wrote another book in the plotline of last man on earth because everyone else died from a plague line. I haven't read it. She was inspired to write Frankenstein through a dream and through a neghborly competition with another author (who wrote the first novel about vampires) She won the competition and her friends told her to publish it. To the thing about inventing sci-fi, I am more partial to Verne and Wells myself, but she is a defineite contendor, I consider her to be the inventor of the defribulator, a device that shocks people to bring them back to life. The movies are much different from the books however, Frankenstein is not a Zombie, no Egor, no bride, (although he almost makes one before angrily destroying it) and there is no mention of any lightning used, but there is this:

"It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs."

So discuss.

I will look forward to your posts tomorrow morning Drizzt. And read that PM i sent you.

[Jarlaxle]

It's amazing how movies make changes from the book. The books clearly have more detail and the shows are often dumbed up to appeal to average people.

I'm surprised that person thought of things so advanced, not wonder she became an accomplished author.

[buttonpresser4815]

She impresses me.

[Jarlaxle]

I can see why, and here career started as a simple competition? I guess authors just come randomly.

[buttonpresser4815]

That they do. Well i don't know the full details of the competition.

[Jarlaxle]

(With only 3 words, it leaves little to respond to, many topics have died because of that...namely mine, oh well, you win some you lose some.)

What was the book about the Vampires all about? I'm curious to see what Frankenstien's competitor was like.

[buttonpresser4815]

Here you go: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampyre

[Jarlaxle]

...wow. That too was a good story! No wonder it rivaled Frankenstien. In fact I think that story would have had my vote.

[buttonpresser4815]

I had a feeling you would support that one a bit more.

[Jarlaxle]

What gave you that idea? (Just curious) Both were appealing. I think that the fact the Frankenstien was because the other one was more subtle and the truth was only fully known at the end. Frankenstien I think had more of the creature earlier.

By the way you mentioned a PM from you I should read? I don't think I ever got it.

[buttonpresser4815]

Oh it was just over at the proboards support board i saw a user named drizzt there with a DOB a few days from yours.

[Jarlaxle]

(What does DOB stand for) So you just sent the message wrong or what?

[buttonpresser4815]

Date of Birth. I don't know about the message.

[Jarlaxle]

Well, whatever happened I never got it. If you don't mind could you roughly re-create it and send it too me. I don't care too much if you don't but I was courious as to what you had to say.