Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Book Three? Check
I just finished Frankenstein and I really enjoyed it. The ending was obviously sad, but it managed to wrap up the story very well. As I approached the end, I realized that in my rush to begin reading I had skipped the essential prologue. I went back, read it, then finshed the book. The entire story of Victor Frankenstein is contained within a small bracket story about a captain discovering Victor and recording his tale. Needless to say, the ending made much more sense once I went back. Overall, I thought it was a great book and would recommend it to anyone (unless you're impatient and simply cannot manage to finish a classic and will therefore insist that I recommend bad books . . . cough . . . cough) The fact that I liked it has encouraged me to continue reading classics. Next up is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and, hopefully, it will be just as good. I don't know much about it except that its a satire about knights. I like stories about King Arthur and sarcasm, so it should be good. I read The Once and Future King my freshman year and liked it, despite the opinions of my classmates, and since the premise is similiar, I hope I enjoy this as well. I've got a lot of reading to do this week! I have to finish Crime and Punishment by Friday and The Things They Carried by Monday. Talk about stressful. But hey, better than science - I wouldn't want to end up like Victor Frankenstein.
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