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In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, creating the iconic concept, and incidentally creating modern science fiction.
In 1935, Elsa Lanchester married the monster.
And now, Daniel M. Kimmel updates the myth, and tells us the tale from the point of view of the most important character: the Father of the Bride of Frankenstein.
This is not Ms. Shelley's monster, but (dare we say it?) a dazzling urbanite, literate and thoughtful....and Jewish?
Science has always outrun the guidelines of ethics. It's not unthinkable that interspecies relationships will be the next big question. And with those relationships will come a father's love for his daughter, and that father's fears for his bankbook when his doting daughter plans the most outrageous of weddings.
Making your daughter happy can be a wild ride when her fiancé is being called subhuman, sued because of his very existence, and trying to keep a good Jewish home.
Film critic and award-winning author Daniel M. Kimmel is the author of the Hugo-finalist non-fiction volume Jar Jar Binks Must Die... and Other Observations about Science Fiction Movies, and the novels Shh! It's a Secret: a novel about Aliens, Hollywood, and the Bartender's Guide, and Time On My Hands: My Misadventures In Time Travel. He is the winner of the 2018 Skylark Award (formally known as the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction), which is given by the New England Science Fiction Association for lifetime contributions to science fiction.
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An American girl finds her prince in this "fun and dishy" (People) royal romance inspired by Prince William and Kate Middleton. American Bex Porter was never one for fairy tales. Her twin sister Lacey was always the romantic, the one who daydreamed of being a princess. But it's adventure-seeking Bex who goes to Oxford and meets dreamy Nick across the hall - and Bex who finds herself accidentally in love with the heir to the British throne. Nick is wonderful, but he comes with unimaginable baggage.
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I deserve a medal for getting to the endless end.
- By Anne on 09-30-17
By: Heather Cocks, and others
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A Wild and Precious Life
- A Memoir
- By: Edie Windsor, Joshua Lyon
- Narrated by: Donna Postel, Joshua Lyon
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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In this memoir, which she began before passing away in 2017 and completed by her co-writer, Edie recounts her childhood in Philadelphia, her realization that she was a lesbian, and her active social life in Greenwich Village's electrifying underground gay scene during the 1950s. Edie was also one of a select group of trailblazing women in computing, working her way up the ladder at IBM and achieving their highest technical ranking while developing software.
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🏳️🌈 Wow! 🏳️🌈
- By Natalia Zimnoch on 10-15-19
By: Edie Windsor, and others
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To Love a Prince
- True Blue Royal, Book 1
- By: Rachel Hauck
- Narrated by: Louise Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Daffodil Caron is not a princess, even though she once dreamed of being one. After all, she grew up as a playmate to royal princes, running through the halls of Perrigwynn Palace and dining with the queen. But the day she stumbled upon a royal secret, everything changed. Flash forward 18 years, and Daffy’s living a sweet, non-royal life. A skilled art curator for the Royal Trust, she has friends, a flat in the heart of the city, and a handsome, successful fiancée. The last person on her mind is Gus, a prince she once called her best mate.
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Easy and light hearted
- By Anonymous User on 02-12-21
By: Rachel Hauck
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Dear Cary
- My Life with Cary Grant
- By: Dyan Cannon
- Narrated by: Dyan Cannon
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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With unparalleled honesty, Dyan Cannon shares the heartwarming and heartbreaking story of her magical romance and stormy marriage to screen legend Cary Grant.He was the ultimate star, defining Hollywood glamour as well as cinematic achievement. She was a bright new actress, beautiful and funny, who would one day prove her talent by being the first woman to receive Academy Award nominations for her work on-screen and behind the camera. When he asked to meet Dyan, she assumed it was for an acting part, but he had a different role in mind for her....
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A Wasted 10 Hours
- By NANCAN on 10-19-12
By: Dyan Cannon
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Fairy Tale Interrupted
- A Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss
- By: RoseMarie Terenzio
- Narrated by: RoseMarie Terenzio
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To everyone else, John F. Kennedy Jr. may have been American royalty, but to RoseMarie Terenzio, he was an entitled nuisance—and she wasn’t afraid to let him know it. RoseMarie was his personal assistant, his publicist, and one of his closest confidantes during the last five years of his life. In this, her first memoir, she bravely recounts her own fairy tale interrupted, describing the unlikely friendship between a blue-collar girl from the Bronx and John F. Kennedy Jr.
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Mediocre read
- By Rachel on 05-28-12
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The Southern Education of a Jersey Girl
- Adventures in Life and Love in the Heart of Dixie
- By: Jaime Primak Sullivan
- Narrated by: Jaime Primak Sullivan
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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Jaime Primak Sullivan, a Jersey-bred, tough-as-nails PR maven - and unlikely transplant in an upscale suburb of Birmingham, Alabama - has spent her entire life crossing the line: whether she's pushing the boundaries of what proper Southern ladies consider to be "polite behavior" or literally traversing the Mason-Dixon line in the name of love. She isn't afraid to say what everyone is thinking when it comes to love, sex, friendship, and many other topics that are all too often sugar-coated in polite Southern company.
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Awesome book
- By Gwendolyn on 09-23-16
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The Secret Bridesmaid
- A Novel
- By: Katy Birchall
- Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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As a professional bridesmaid, Sophie is hired by London brides to be their right-hand woman, posing as a friend but working behind the scenes to help plan the perfect wedding and ensure their big day goes off without a hitch. When she’s hired by Lady Victoria Swann - a former model and “It Girl" of 1970’s London; now the Marchioness of Meade - for the society wedding of the year, it should be a chance for Sophie to prove just how talented she is.
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The Secret Bridesmaid
- By whatcha.listening.to on 10-05-21
By: Katy Birchall
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The First Husband
- By: Laura Dave
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Annie Adams is days away from her 32nd birthday and thinks she has finally found some happiness. She visits the world's most interesting places for her syndicated travel column and she's happily cohabiting with her movie director boyfriend Nick in Los Angeles. But when Nick comes home from a meeting with his therapist (aka "futures counselor") and announces that he's taking a break from their relationship so he can pursue a woman from his past, the place Annie had come to call home is shattered.
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Meh
- By Bernice Holland on 05-16-21
By: Laura Dave
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City of Girls
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Blair Brown
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
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Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance.
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A strong story
- By Anita Kristensen on 06-08-19
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Babylon Sisters
- By: Pearl Cleage
- Narrated by: Pearl Cleage
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Catherine, busy working with refugee and immigrant women through her small firm, Babylon Sisters, has taken on a powerful new client. She doesn't have much time for Phoebe's complicated questions of paternity - that is, until Phoebe's real father, B. J., a renowned investigative reporter, shows up in town to work on a story connected to Catherine.
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Sister Love
- By Florence Graydon on 03-26-21
By: Pearl Cleage
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Finale
- A Novel of the Reagan Years
- By: Thomas Mallon
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
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From the author of the acclaimed novel Watergate comes a galvanizing new novel about the tumultuous administration of the most consequential and enigmatic president of modern times - Ronald Reagan. Finale takes listeners to the political gridiron of Washington in 1986, the wealthiest enclaves of Southern California, and the volcanic landscape of Iceland, where the president engages in two almost apocalyptic days of negotiation with Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Gore Vidal for the 21st Century
- By philip on 10-31-15
By: Thomas Mallon
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On Turpentine Lane
- A Novel
- By: Elinor Lipman
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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At 32, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown, where she writes institutional thank-you notes for her alma mater. It's a peaceful life, really, and surely with her recent purchase of a sweet bungalow on Turpentine Lane, her life is finally on track. Never mind that her fiancé is off on a crowdfunded cross-country walk, too busy to return her texts (but not too busy to post photos of himself with a different woman in every state).
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A little slow...
- By Mary on 06-15-17
By: Elinor Lipman
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- sander
- 05-06-20
Understandable and entertaining for a non-Jew
Full disclosure: I received a free copy of this to review. I am also what is called a goy, aka a non-Jew. My analysis of this work may miss some of the nuances a Jewish person would pick up on.
I've been a fan of Frankenstein since high school, so when I saw this book I had to check it out. It has no relation to the book or movies, though. The plot kicks off when scientists re-animate a corpse and the media nicknames the resulting being "Frank" for Frankenstein. (It was here that I wished Herbert West was a little more well known, since he would have been an even more fitting if obsurer reference to make than Frankenstein).
Technically, we open in media res on the day of the wedding and backtrack to explain how everyone got there, including the above-mentioned backstory. And it's quite engaging. It starts off humorous, but the story develops some serious depths as it continues, even as it remains mostly light-hearted and optimistic. I loved seeing Frank grow to become part of the family and the trials everyone faced because some deemed Frank less than human.
The Jewish practice and traditions were mostly understandable to me, a non-Jew. Part of the narrative delves into Frank's choice to convert to Judaism, which allows for natural-sounding explanations when needed.
Fife continues to be an amazing narrator. I've loved his work on Jane Austen's Dragons and I love him here. Especially impressed by his pronunciation of Jewish phrases. I tried to properly pronounce challah after the narration explained how to, but couldn't quite manage it. I'm sorry.
The book ends with about 17 minutes left—the rest is an afterward, a bonus short story, and acknowledgements.
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- A
- 10-24-20
Father of the.....
Definitely better than I expected.
And definitely not what you expect!
***I received a free copy of this audiobook via Story Origin and am voluntarily leaving a review.***
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- Emily S.
- 05-26-19
Fun, funny, and more.
I don’t often listen to humorous fiction, but this book may have changed my mind. I thoroughly enjoyed the story, the characters, and the humor. Underlying all that, Dan Kimmel conveys a sense that despite various crazy and bad things that happen, the world and life are essentially good. That’s a welcome perspective theses days!
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- BMcLean
- 07-09-20
Stunning
Loved this story! So hilarious, I love Frank's sense of humor even when he was facing possible death.
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- MolllyT
- 08-16-19
Laugh your sox off!
situational-humor, verbal-humor, angst, discrimination, reanimation
Laugh your sox off hilarious! The dad relates the story of all the weirdness related to their grad student and only child loving and wanting to marry a nearly normal looking man with no memories of anything before his reanimation by an unscrupulous group of scientists other than a reasonable command of English. Fortunately, although he has no sort of religious affiliation he has made a decision based on logic and conviction to become a Jew, and not just because his love and her family are also Jewish. Can you see Mel Brooks here? I highly recommend it!
Benjamin Fife is a fantastic choice to be the voice actor! He manages to make it even funnier!
I won the audiobook in a giveaway! I really win!
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- txbonnet
- 10-05-19
Funny and comforting
This story is pretty wonderful and heartwarming. It’s a nice break from all of the stories where the monster is bad and goes on a rampage.
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- grammatoni
- 04-16-20
Father of the Bride of Frankenstein
Total chaos ensued when it was discovered that scientists created a living (!!??) person. He's named Frank. He is highly intelligent and gets his BS and eventual Master's. At the college he goes he meets a young woman named Samantha. They develop a romantic interest in each other. Then one day Sam takes him home to meet her family. After the hoopla about Frank her parents are totally flabbergasted and go beyond when she tells them they're engaged. Now Sam's dad has to try to survive her daughter's fiance being made, opening his wallet to pay for the wedding and suffering through Frank taking lessons to become a Jew. He isn't sure which is more harrowing...paying for the wedding, Jewish customs he never realized existed or Frank's heritage.
Benjamin Fife is fantastic in telling the story of a harried father.
Fantastic audio and story!!! Hollywood so needs to update the Bride of Frankenstein!!!
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-23-19
An amusing mishmash (appropriately for Frank)
A comedy about all the usual drama of planning a wedding. Sorting out the guest list. Sending invitations. Finding a band. Avoiding the angry mob trying to murder the groom. Okay, so it's a LITTLE different when the groom is a reanimated corpse. But it's not his fault he was reborn this way. The whole thing is told from the perspective of the loving but very confused father of the bride. There are some interesting digressions into medical ethics, obscure Jewish customs, and some of the strange legal and philosophical questions raised by Frank's very existence. He's a pretty cool guy, all things considered. The "bonus" short story is unrelated and not much of a bonus. I got a free code from the narrator, who has informed me that the chapter splicing error I noticed is being fixed, so that shouldn't be an issue anymore.
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- Rusty Miller
- 02-27-20
Funny, charming and thought-provoking
I went into this book expecting a funny take on the classic movie given the witty title, and I was partially correct. There was plenty of humor, and most of it deserved a generous smirk. Beyond that, I didn’t know what I was expecting.
This story is set in our modern day, and it is in a scientific lab that Frank is brought to life. This book shined the most when it explored the morality and “human” rights of someone who is alive through non-traditional means. It dives into the societal opinions of this technology, and it runs the gamut from wholesale approval to just short of torches and pitchforks.
The story is also filled with insight into the Jewish culture since that is the faith/culture of Frank’s bride-to-be. We see this all primarily through the father-in-law’s perspective, but much of it comes through as Frank is considering converting to Judaism. (As an aside, as someone who is not Jewish, there were times when I felt this was done very well and explained in a way that was approachable for me. However, there were other times when it either seemed excessive. I applaud the author for pulling in their heritage, and don’t take off much for this. I just mention it to say it hindered me a little from enjoying it more. That said, I bet it would be VERY well received from a reader who shares the rich traditions of the Jewish life.)
Overall, I think this book was successful for what it was meant to be: funny where it was intended, as well as charming and thought-provoking. 3.8 out of 5 stars.
(I was given a copy of the audio book in exchange for my honest review. Thank you to the narrator for the copy – well done!)
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- David Haynes
- 09-15-19
Funny and Unique Despite its Flaws
I received this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
If it's not clear from the title, Daniel M Kimmel's story is essentially Father of the Bride meets Frankenstein. Father of the Bride was a great film (Steve Martin is one of my favorites), so I came into this work with a level of uncertainty. It seemed like an overly wacky concept that would be difficult to write, but Kimmel pulls it off in a great way. I recommend this book to anyone who's willing to suspend disbelief for an entertaining adventure.
The narrative is told through the father's perspective, and he is a compelling character with flaws and a big personality. The remaining characters are interesting, although Frank the monster has the most depth. The story shares a series of events that lead from the reanimation of Frank through the wedding day. These characters really can't catch a break, as craziness and mayhem follows their every move. Although this seems like a light read, Kimmel tackles topics of ethics, morals and religion. The religious aspect was particularly interesting, although it bogs down a bit towards the end. Nevertheless, the story remains humorous and engaging through the nearly 6.5 hour duration.
Benjamin Fife does a good job with his narration, although I did have a few complaints. He conveys emotion and adds humor in his inflections. However, he seems to catch on some words throughout the work. The narrative doesn't exactly flow as well as it could. Nonetheless. I never grew tired of his voice, and he did a fine job differentiating between each character. My other complaint isn't exactly focused on Fife, but it's more focused on the recording in general. Occasionally, background noises can be heard during the recording. There is also a chapter where the audio cuts off early and then includes brief narration from another chapter.
Despite it's flaws, this was a fun, entertaining book that kept me interested throughout. Kimmel is a good author, and Fife does a fine job narrating. I'd be happy to hear more works from them both in the future.
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