me, reading mary shelley's frankenstein: huh, the melodrama and extreme emotionality remind me of "the sorrows of young werther"
frankenstein's monster, a few chapters in: so i found a suitcase with "the sorrows of young werther" in it and read it and based my personality on it,
amazing that the monster is chilling in his hovel and someone just leaves a valise in the woods with goethe, plutarch and milton in it and its just never explained
frankenstein's monster in movies: *grunts, groans, shuffles*
frankenstein's monster in the book: *eloquent discourse for like a hundred pages straight, heartrendingly articulated emo laments, relays an entire subplot that could be its own novel about some people he stalked*
the sorrows of young monster
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the replies to this are in the long term demonstrative of a harrowing erosion of even the barest faith in our democracy, but in the short term kind of nihilistically hilarious
i finally finished bram stoker's DRACULA and regret to say that despite its towering reputation its kind of shit, as a book
too much:
-incomprehensible speechifying from Van Helsing in a weird clumsy iteration of a Dutchman's English
-chasing, and I cannot emphasize this enough, after boxes of dirt, for like the entire back half of the novel
-the phrase "I am but a poor weak woman"
-train schedules
not enough: -ACTUAL VAMPIRE STUFF beyond the kickass beginning in jonathan harker's journal. the Count gets like 3 scenes and the rest of the time its just sloppy friends chasing dirt boxes
-the entire potential of Renfield is completely squandered????? what was the point????
really wondering how the "operation warp speed" plans are gonna mesh with the literally millions of americans who sincerely believe the coronavirus vaccine is the mark of the beast, a thing from revelations
a student dmed me to ask me to summarize my book bc it got assigned for a class project and she hasnt read it. amazing on so many levels
mostly im just hype to be on a syllabus, hmu professors i will Zoom into your class
this tweet seems to have made a lot of people mad so i'll just say: empathy for students struggling right now; it didn't seem to be an issue of inability to afford the book, or i would have responded differently; and no, i did not assign my own book, i am not a professor