Finally finished it!

I just took one off my “must read” bucket list - so I can check Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN. No longer astride my parade of incompletes, I finally finished it last night, after many previous stabs at it over the years.

Slow going - a lot of meandering first-person narratives. But in the end, worth it. I think. Yeah.

Still, I wondered how they got from this story line to the actual making of the old Boris Karloff movie. Probably too lurid for the 1930s, so they took great liberties and made a film classic in its own right. Add to that “Bride of Frankenstein” and you have another classic - but even together, both movies combined still deviate majorly from the original story.