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Archer Book Club: October 2025

Welcome to the Archer Book Club, or the ABC!

Selection Of The Month

From Simon & Schuster:  "When ambitious young scientist Victor Frankenstein animates a humanoid figure he crafted from stolen corpses, he gets more than he bargained for. While his creation is brutish—large, strong, and horrifying to look at—it’s also an intelligent, emotional, and eloquent creature who blurs the lines between monstrosity and humanity. Unable to cope with the fallout of his experiment, Victor abandons his strange creation. The lonely monster, now cast out into the world, fruitlessly seeks happiness in a world that rejects the unnatural and the ugly. And then the unthinkable happens: the monster turns against its own creator with a powerful threat, setting into motion a truly tragic series of events."

 

Bonus Quotes From the Novel (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley):

"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe.  If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."

"The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone."

Discussion Questions

SPOILERS! Discussion questions will be similar to the following (adapted from Penguin Random House Canada):

  • Why does Frankenstein become obsessed with creating life?
  • Why is Frankenstein filled with disgust, calling the monster "my enemy," as soon as he has created him? (p. 62)
  • Why are Frankenstein and his monster both ultimately miserable, bereft of human companionship, and obsessed with revenge? Are they in the same situation at the end of the novel?
  • Was it wrong for Frankenstein to inquire into the origins of life?
  • What makes the creature a monster rather than a human being? Is he really a monster? Is there someone else who is?