So I decided to start reading more classics

[cinaed]

I have realized my knowledge of classic novels is sorely lacking in stuff I was not force-fed and loathed in school (looking at you, The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, Of Mice and Men, Heart of Darkness, and so forth), so I decided to start delving into classics.

So far I have read and enjoyed:

-Frankenstein (not going to lie, I want to do a skygiants-style review on it)
-The Little Prince
-Pere Goriot
-The Arsene Lupin short stories

However, I do occasionally run into a problem. See Treasure Island.

I am sure it's a fun book! It has pirates, after all. But man, reading the foreword and learning that there is literally only one woman in the book, Jim's mother, and that she doesn't show up again past the beginning bummed me out. I guess I was spoiled by the Muppet Treasure Island since Miss Piggy is awesome in that, but...I don't know if I can read a book where there's literally one female character.

I will give it a try, but man is that too many dudes. 

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[skygiants]

REVIEW FRANKENSTEIN DO IT DO IT DO IT (I have such a complicated relationship with that book)

[cinaed]

I enjoyed the book...mostly!

No one told me that it is an epistolary novel (MY GREATEST WEAKNESS), so that was unexpectedly delightful surprise. And Robert's letters to his sister going, "I want a boyfriend friend!" will never not be hilarious to me. (Word of advice, Robert, if you want a boyfriend, maybe going on a trip to the North Pole is not the best way to find one?)

Though I spent far too much of the book muttering, "Victor, LOOK AT YOUR LIFE, LOOK AT YOUR CHOICES." And I went into it only knowing that there's Victor and his Creature and that a little kid gets murdered, so I...foolishly got attached to people.... Whoops!