A Scandalous Creature

About Deborah L. Fruchey: Deborah Fruchey was born in California over 50 years ago. Her first novel, The Unwilling Heiress, was chosen as a.
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Mary gave him a voice and a literary education in order to express his thoughts and desires he is one of three narrators in the book. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. If we think of the creature as a badly made and unattractive human, his tragedy deepens.


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If you consider that Mary Shelley had lost her mother Mary Wollstonecraft at her own birth, had just buried her baby girl and was looking after her pregnant step-sister as she was writing the book — which took exactly nine months to complete — the relevance of birth and death makes even more sense. View image of Mary Wollstonecraft. View image of Cumberbatch and Miller. So could a new, cinematic version of Frankenstein be on the cards? Just like the Romantics, we edge towards a new modern age, but this time, of AI, which brings its own raft of fears and moral quandaries.

View image of The Shape of Water. The creator and creature, parent and child, the writer and her story — they went forth, and did they prosper? Stories that shaped the world Literature Why Frankenstein is the story that defines our fears. By Rebecca Laurence 13 June Sep 05, Sep 04, Aug 30, Deborah Fruchey rated a book liked it. Aug 29, Aug 27, Aug 25, Quotes by Deborah L. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

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Why Frankenstein is the story that defines our fears

Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. You can all imagine what happened after — same fits of anger, same bloodthirst, same physical transformations. The hormones that were introduced in their bodies turned them into humanoid beasts that ressembled monkeys, but, of course, no one could know what happened to the boys. No one could find out what TarrenTech was doing behind closed doors. So, naturally, they liquidated anyone that tried to reveal scandalous information about their company — they sent Charlotte LaConner to the sanatorium, they killed Doctor MacCallum, they were about to get rid of Mark's mother too if she weren't to escape though they had eventually killed her.

They came up with stories for people's disappearances and, in the end, everyone bought it. This is why the story is scary. It is frightening because of how easy people can be manipulated by a higher power. It is chilling because history proved that experimenting on humans was something that had actually happened. It is horrendous because we have no idea what happens behind closed doors. And this is why John Saul has done a great job writing this book.

Jan 17, Julie Akeman rated it it was amazing. Although Koontz tends to have happier endings, Saul was darker in his endings and I always wonder why do the children have to suffer?

The Creature

But I remember this book from way back and it's kinda short and it was a creepy read and loved it at the time of my creep fest LOL. Dark and enjoyable for those who love to read in the shadows. This was the first John Saul novel I ever read, and it still holds up 25 years later. If you want to know what happens when you try to improve on Mother Nature, Saul reminds us of the awesome or awful consequences.

Wow I must say I am torn, it has been 10 years since I last read this book, and I no longer feel it is a 5 star novel.

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This is the book that got me into books, it is the reason I read today. I think it could still have that kind of impact on a younger person. It's not a child or teen book I just think they are less concerned with the less than original parts of this book. The 'always evil big corporation' the 'too perfect town' these are things I have seen hundreds of times since.

I guess I can' Wow I must say I am torn, it has been 10 years since I last read this book, and I no longer feel it is a 5 star novel. I guess I can't say those are the reasons I don't love this book as much as I did. I am not smart enough to come up with a better word, but I am getting to be a bit of a snob. The 'classics' have changed the way I like a book to be written I think. There are new books that capture that style for me, this isn't one of them and so at this point in my life I would give Creature a 3.

Apr 26, Sharon Joag rated it really liked it Shelves: This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. A powerful high tech company has started a side project in Silverdale, which is a postcard pretty town; only it is just too perfect. An experimental project is being done in e town which transforms small boys into huge strong boys. Marty Ames, the scientist conducting the experiment doesn't know the true extent of what the growth hormone he gives to the boys does, and the experiment has its flaws. Three boys in Silverdale turn ino the monsters and only one of them survives in the mountains outsi A powerful high tech company has started a side project in Silverdale, which is a postcard pretty town; only it is just too perfect.

Three boys in Silverdale turn ino the monsters and only one of them survives in the mountains outside of town. The book doesn't end the story completely. There are still some loose ends. At the end, Marty Ames dies and so does. But Saul says nothing of what finally becomes of Silverdale after the head of the experiment project, and the coach is dead.

Dec 28, Boz Reacher rated it it was ok. But this is a bad book. The best thing I can say about this book is, I got it very cheaply at HPB but it had never been read and I kept sticking my face in it and smelling the pages. The book is bad, yes, but also somehow comforting. If you took out a hundred pages of pointless exposition and shaved down some of the more egregiously redundant prose, it would be like a cool pulp story with a good, stupid, funny ending.

But that's the difference between borderline-entertaining airport novels and good pulp fiction. I would watch a movie of this if it was made in and featured Craig Wasson as blandly evil Dr. Martin Ames, or blandly complicit football coach Phil Collins, or even blandly hapless sad beta dad Blake Tanner. Sep 22, Cgrant rated it really liked it. Some of Saul's books can be pretty disturbing and a little too creepy, but this one was disturbing on a different levelyou can actually believe something like this would happen the scientists genetically altering teenage males who are smaller, shorter, etc than their peers, in order for them to end up on par with or better than the teenage boys who are bigger, faster, etc.

I guess the best way to describe it would be to say it resembles a "steroids gone out of control" story, a very believa Some of Saul's books can be pretty disturbing and a little too creepy, but this one was disturbing on a different levelyou can actually believe something like this would happen the scientists genetically altering teenage males who are smaller, shorter, etc than their peers, in order for them to end up on par with or better than the teenage boys who are bigger, faster, etc.

I guess the best way to describe it would be to say it resembles a "steroids gone out of control" story, a very believable potential scenario in this day and age of athletes and the radical performance-enhancing measures that some of them take. Yes, the "moral" of the story indirectly delivers itself throughout and up until the end; sometimes it's best not to mess with nature and what God gave you.

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Jul 08, Thaydra rated it liked it Shelves: I read this book as a child and spent years searching for it again. I recently rediscovered it and was thrilled to reread it. Though not exactly as I remembered it, it is indeed the book I remember from my youth. Silverdale, Colorado is almost too good to be true, especially the high school football team. The boys are bigger and stronger than most kids, and the sports center they use for training is state of the art.

But is the training and vitamin regimen the doctor has them on really harmless? I definitely had to keep in mind the time frame when this was written, as much of what happened would never fly the way it did these days. It was still an enjoyable read. There were no likeable characters, except for Chivas the dog.

I only gave this an extra star because it started to pick up towards the end for a few chapters.


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Oct 09, Elliot rated it really liked it Recommends it for: John Saul fans, horror book fans. Creature, by John Saul, was a fun horror story about a town that appears to be too perfect and reveals the malignant machinations going on behind the scenes. I particularly enjoyed that John Saul would write a person's first and last name several times in the book, which allowed me to follow the characters in the book effortlessly. The ending held a surprising death or two, but it also left me a little sad. Jul 26, Tracey rated it really liked it. I actually give this book a 4.

It was pretty good.

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The beginning was slow and it was hard to catch on for me because I saw people like that in school, but I didn't totally understand. Otherwise, the experiments being done to the boys at this clinic was horrific and very sad. No child should be subjected to that. Football team that never loses. Sports center funded by a wealthy company. Nothing new but Saul tells the story so well I'm giving him 4 stars.

Won't he be thrilled? I also teared up at the end! And who the hell cries over a horror story? Jul 03, Dawn Gehler rated it it was amazing. This is a very good book, I actually finished this awhile ago but didn't have a chance to come on and write my review. It's amazing all the way through, the ending is a little different then what I was thinking it was going to end but it was good. Jun 04, C. Hard to put down. There was more PG language and gore than other books I have read by this author,but I could not stop reading!

I found the story fascinating,especially with the 'fanaticism' and corruption around sports,we see today!