Frankenstein

I will be extremely honest. The October 2025 release of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein movie is what inspired me to read this book again. I was reminded how much I enjoyed the book when I first read it, and while the movie is not strictly a one-to-one adaptation (what adaptation could ever hope to hit that mark), it was good enough and captured the spirit of the book so well that I simply had to read it again.

When I got a job with a daily commute by train, that was a perfect opportunity to find some time to read. I thoroughly enjoyed the classic horror that some (including me) call the first novel that could be considered in the science fiction genre.

If the only way you’ve experienced Frankenstein is by adapation, especially if del Toro’s movie is not inluded among them, I can not recommend reading the original enough. So many adaptations turn the creature (who has since been dubbed “Frankenstein’s monster”) into a mindless brute who deserves the hate of the angry mob that pursues him. The book is far more nuance. The creature is far from perfect, but… well, to reveal more would be to spoil the story. Go, and read a book that has survived the test of time for over two hundred years and become the quintessential gothic horror classic.