Frankenstein

Im glad im finally going to know the real story of Frankenstein...all that talk we've been having of what Frankentstein is to pop culture is making me all the more curious because im consciously aware now how silly Frankentstein really is to Halloween, movies, etc. If the book had been recently written, i dont think it would have been any bit controversial. Fiction today has taken hundreds and hundreds of directions. I'd certainly like to rave over fiction again, instead of hearing constantly about biographies, memoirs, political novels, anything from Oprah's book club...i need some good old fashion classic literature. Honestly the only places i hear about the classics are in my english classes. I just dont see them around anywhere else...sometimes in movies...but so many are so altered its disappointing...like Dracula. Not one movie has done the book justice. "Bram Stoker's Dracula" is not Bram Stoker's Dracula. Major plot alteration. Today we're making these classic horror stories so cheesy. I'd like to see them represented in their true form. I cant help but think Boris Karloff when i think Frankenstein. I dont consider the question of reanimation of life, I dont consider the different perceptions of what is beauty, I dont consider the definition of a real monster. I just think halloween, costumes, green face and neckbolts...and black and white movie...this isnt Frankenstein...not the real one.