The Last Man - Mary Shelley

The_Minister

Has anyone read this?

I loved Frankenstein, but I stopped a quarter way through The Last Man - it was dragging and woeful.

Is it worth giving another try?

sxt

Never read it but as there are so many enjoyable books out there that you could be reading , i'd put in on the back burner for the moment and move onto someting else . There is nothing worse than trudgin through a
long book that you are not feeling or just not in the mood for.

Permabear

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sponsoredwalk

Shelley did have a pretty big hand in Frankenstein's origin.
Didn't he tell her to make up a story on the spot as they were on a
get-away orgy/holiday & they all kind of worked on it that night?

In any case, if you appreciated that book I'd suggest getting some Shelley,
if you'd like to learn about Shelley before you read him all I can do is advise this unbelievably amazingly brilliant (:D)
mp3 lecture on Shelley & how society has purposefully corrupted his memory in statue-form as well as poetically

Part 1
Part 2

I'd recommend Prometheus Unbound & The Masque of Anarchy, but most of all those lectures in order to understand
a lot about Shelley you wouldn't have guessed & why he's so worth reading.

Earthhorse

Shelley (PB) is well worth reading alright. Not sure about him writing Frankenstein (which I wasn't mad on personally). It's certainly possible but it seems equally likely that Mary Shelley only had the one great book in her.