Please reconsider using Sparknotes for this book. It spoils the plot of the book that you spent 350+ pages getting to, the part that the narrator hints at throughout the first half. I got it spoiled for me. Watch out!

Also, The P&V translation is closer to his real style but also clunkier and more difficult to read. I switched to the Garnett one and is was so much easier and I flew through the second half of the book, but I did lose some of the style by doing this. The second half of the book also is just easier to read in general, so once you hit the 400 page mark, I think you'll feel more confortable with the writing no matter which edition you read.

That sounds very similar to notes from underground which people seem to compliment a lot

Isn't ASOIAF considered the best fantasy series by many? I would still read it even without an ending.

The Brothers Karamazov was supposed to have follow-up books but didn't, people still read it.

And if you are including any series that wasn't completed from the original author, that takes away a lot of good books. Including Wheel of Time, Dune, Foundation, James Bond, Sherlock Holmes, Odyssey/Iliad, the Bible, Grimm/Arabian Nights/Aesop's Fables/pretty much any older compiled story collection of old.

The Garnett version is a lot easier if you wanted to try that, the P&V translation might be closer to his prose style, but it is also clunkier.

For a last ditch effort, you could try to look up the laws in the early 1800s (1818?) or whenever the book is actually set, to see about negligence laws. Most likely, it was lax or nonexistent, so your mock court proceeding shouldn't be taking place at all. And if they say that they are having a modern court proceeding, bring up statute of limitations since the actions occurred.

It has been ~205 years since my client allegedly committed this crime, ~185 years past the statute of limitations or whatever if he is guilty of anything. Also a funny ending could be saying that your client has been dead for hundreds of years, and thus cannot be charged.

These probably don't really help you that much.

You could argue that instead of acting in disregard for obvious risks to human life and safety, he does the exact opposite. He protects humanity by refusing to create a second supernatural being from coming to life that could threaten thousands of lives.

Plus, right when the being is created, there's no way of knowing if it's actually living. Living means the seven criteria in biology that we specify, so you could maybe refute that Frankenstein is indeed a living being since it cannot reproduce (maybe??).

Along the same vein, right when it awakens, there's no way to know its intelligence, capacity to understand human language, speak, or possible danger to humanity. It could've stood up, walked over to him and then fell over dead again, how was he to know when the galvanization would stop working? We find out later that the monster can jump great distances, run at a speed much faster than humans, has superhuman strength, and withstand frigid temperatures well. Maybe it is even a different species at this point, and that could nullify the negligence part for Victor as creator/parent/assumed guardian.

I was shocked at the number of times I thought, "Holy shit, that was good writing" while reading Blood Meridian