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Talia Lavin

18 Dec, 6 tweets, 1 min read

i finally finished Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN. It is amazingly and also sometimes beautifully melodramatic. Like Goth monster Hamlet. The monster is SO ELOQUENT and I cant get over how that was totally erased in every film!

also Victor Frankenstein gets a horrible fever every time he gets bad news. for like months at a time.

also, SO many beautiful descriptions of lakes! made me really want to visit Geneva someday.

if the Creature had had social media, he would have had all of monsterfucker Tumblr to consort with. instead, he turned to Murder. alas

next on my Classic Melodramas I Unaccountably Missed Reading List: The Island of Dr Moreau and Wuthering Heights

its so gothhhhhhhhhhhhh

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