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1. Beautiful and absorbing
   A strange, very funny and wonderful meditation across time and space, life and death, on what it means to be human.

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2. Thought provoking
   I didn’t read Frankenstein before this, I wish I did even though I have a basic understanding of the story. It would have helped me understand Shelly more but that’s my problem not the authors!! this book reads a lot like my midnight thoughts about what the world would look like if you could re-activate the brain and it was really satisfying to have the discussion play out with all arguments acknowledged. I enjoyed this book a lot (:

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3. A thought-provoking, very well written book.
   Several months ago after watching the movie Mary Shelley I reread her Frankenstein book and the books of Yuval Noah Harari on the history and future of Homo sapiens. Then I came across this book and was delighted with it. Like the other authors she addresses two of the questions we humans eternally ask: Who are we, our good and our bad? and What do we want to become?Seventy or so years ago Philip Wilie, a popular author of the time and one of the founders of The New Yorker, suggested that when organisms evolved from single to multiple cells they gave up eternal (or at least longer) life, but received sex in return. To keep us interested, I guess. One of the many questions that Ms Winterson poses is: Will we soon be willing to give up sex in return for eternal (or at least longer) life?I certainly hope not.

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4. Ultimately unsatisfying reflection on Mary Shelly, a.i., transhumanism, & transgender
   Winterson’s reflection on Mary Shelly, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and transgender, all coalesce into a frequently amusing but also occasionally troublesome (the primary narrator is trans, but at times seems more fetishised as such than anything else) tale, with an ultimately pointless and unsatisfying ending.

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5. Great Oddball Read
   Just reading the premise, I’m sure you’ve realized how quirky this book is, and it definitely lives up to that. It’s a lot of fun, with some clever ideas and concepts that make you think more deeply. There are a couple challenging scenes, especially one that might be triggering, but for that one particular scene it does seem… obvious(?) that that’s where it’s going to go, so theoretically can be skipped without missing any of the story.

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6. An old tale- woven into a newer one
   Winterson’s genius for leaving the reader never certain where she’s taking them is in full force here. I loved her imagining the Shelleys and their romantic impulses to produce pieces of literature. I was kept uneasy as a contemporary story developed, deftly sketched and amplified. Not a horror story, but an unsettling one.

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7. Spectacular, beautiful, and very, very strange
   I’m not much of a fan of science fiction. This is listed as such, but really it’s a poetic musing on the meaning of living, wrapped in a gripping set of intertwining stories. The insights and vision of the self are memorable. This makes the book sound like a dull philosophy treatise but it’s anything but! Read it and you’ll think about it all day, and be eager to get back to it as soon as you can.

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8. a great literary fiction read
   If you don’t know the novel FRANKENTSTEIN by Mary Shelley, please read it before reading this book. And be prepared for a great deal of strangeness. I wasn’t at all sure in the first quarter of FRANKISSTEIN that I would finish it. But I ended up really loving it. Great commentary on the impact of technology on the world.

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9. Gostei da forma paródica com que a autora retoma e reescreve, com respeito, a obra original de Mary Shelley. Ela retoma os principais temas de Frankenstein, muda o foco da narrativa (que passa a ser a do monstro) e questiona a ideologia presente naquele texto, buscando problematizá-la.

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10. Jeanette Winterson ist seit 30 Jahren für ihre feministisch genderfluiden, dabei aber stets humorvollen und gut lesbaren Romane bekannt. Ihr neuer Roman verbindet zwei Erzählstränge: einen historischen (es geht um den Genfer Aufenthalt der Frankensteinautorin Mary Shelley im Sommer 1816) mit einer Science Fiction Handlung (hier geht es, teils satirisch, teils dystopisch um die posthumanistischen Anwandlungen eines Dr. Stein). Sehr anregend und intelligent.

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11. Where lies the future of sex, love, brains and body parts in a post humanist world? A story within stories

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12. So appropriate for the age we live in. Brilliant writing!

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13. Very accurate and inventive, at points hilarious.

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