Why am I passionate about this?
I am one of those people who always feels sorry for the monster at the end of the movie. I am always more disturbed by the avenging townspeopleās bloodlust than the monsterās destructiveness. At a deeper level, for me these horror stories actually depict compassion, acceptance, and the hysteria whipped up by self-righteous mobs. They are books with very dark themes, and they generally do not have happy endings, but rather than being depressing, I find them instructive, even enriching, and certainly valuable. More than anything, they show me ā in bloody detail ā the terrifying limits of conformity.
Robin's book list on classics that expose the cruelty of society
Why did Robin love this book?
Similar in vein, a more opaque story than Frankenstein, and with a more indeterminate morality surrounding the main character, who is, after all, a crackpot murderer, but eliciting perhaps the same complex reactions toward him and the other characters at the bookās tragic ending.
1 author picked The Invisible Man as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 12, 13, 14, and 15.
H. G. Wells was one of the founders of science fiction and his novels have remained extremely popular since they were first released.