Frankissstein

by Jeanette Winterson | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0735279691 Global Overview for this book
Registered by CynthiaA of Brantford, Ontario Canada on 7/3/2019
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Journal Entry 1 by CynthiaA from Brantford, Ontario Canada on Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Received from Knopf Canada through an online giveaway.

Journal Entry 2 by CynthiaA at Brantford, Ontario Canada on Friday, September 27, 2019
This is one of those books that I had to stop and re-read sections several times over to make sure I was getting everything that the author was putting into it.

It is a re-telling of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, set into the politically fraught world of today (Trump, Brexit, etc). The very loose gist is that, just as Mary Shelley imagined "artificial life" in the form of Frankenstein's monster, today's AI developments are potentially our very own version of "monster". But it is oh-so-much more than just that.

Winterson is SO smart and weaves in hilarious sexually-crude characters and deep philosophical debates, all on the same page. The five characters of Mary Shelley's timeline are mirrored in the characters of the modern timeline. Eg: Byron becomes Ron Lord. (get it? Lord Byron? -- I think that's brilliant!!) The question of gender and identity is a key plot point as 18th century Mary laments the treatment of woman, while 21st century Ry (born female as a Mary) is trans and identifies as male but understands his "doubleness".

There are quotes from learned minds, from Ovid to Shakespeare to Alan Turing and the founder of Google. All of which blend together to ask us "what does it mean to be human?" and "must we have a body to have a mind"?

It's a brilliant entertaining and thought-provoking book and I will definitely be reading it again soon.

Journal Entry 3 by CynthiaA at Little Free Library -- Dufferin Ave in Brantford, Ontario Canada on Saturday, July 10, 2021

Released 2 yrs ago (7/10/2021 UTC) at Little Free Library -- Dufferin Ave in Brantford, Ontario Canada

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