I first read Frankenstein as a Great Illustrated Classic as a child. I felt in the mood to revisit it and read the full version. It was an enjoyable read in the relaxing and thought provoking manner of writing employed in older books, and full of plenty of quotable material. Rather than the fast paced plots and frequent cliffhanger chapter endings used by modern writers as if they feared losing the attention of their readers, Mary Shelly instead develops the character slowly from childhood until you feel you know him and are wholly invested in his outcome. The only thing I disliked was the first 4 Letters it took to get into the main story, which I thought too long and filled with trivial information that didn’t pertain to Frankenstein.