Read This: Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
Why?
Hello? The original Superman? The ultimate hotness? Tragedy? Betrayal? Plus, the movies absurdly did not do Tarzan any justice! Just read the book and you’ll know what I mean. (P.S. Do not read the sequels.)
Read This: Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Why?
For the same reason as above! No, the monster was not hot, however, the movies did not do Frankenstein any justice! The monster, an intellectual being who was clearly misunderstood due to his grotesque physique, therefore exacting revenge on the stupidity of human beings; meanwhile Frankenstein, the jackass, takes revenge against his creation because the monster is just too damn ugly. How rude!
Read This: She – H. Rider Haggard
Why?
Mysterious relics? Seeking a long lost God-like (Goddess-like?) creature? Mythology? Adventure? Avengers? Revenge? Grecian hotness? A scorned wife who seeks revenge upon the murder of her husband by an immortal woman, the said immortal woman fell in love with this husband, but could not have him, thus killed him! The scorned wife, then passed on a message to her descendants to seek revenge against this immortal woman; hence 2,000 years later, enter Leo Vincey. Leo Vincey and his adopted father Horace Holly journeys on an adventure to seek the truth about this woman, only to discover… the immortal woman believes Vincey to be the dead husband who returned from the afterlife! Again, the movies did not encompass the compelling story of the book!
Are we seeing a pattern here?
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