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There's not much I can say here that the other reviewers have already said. If you've seen the new movie (with the freaky genius Morlocks) this book will surprise you. I actually read this book years ago, before I ever saw the movie. The book might feel somewhat bland if you've seen any of the Time Machine movies (or compared to modern-day sci-fi books), but it stands out on its own as a creative novel at a time before science-fiction was a recognized genre.
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I love this bok. Read it in a few days. It's easy to see why this is considered a science fiction classic. I just bought a load of H.G. Wells books as a result.
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With a Kindle in one's hands, downloading and reading many older books that are no longer in copyright is both free and simple. Having thus come into possession of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine the other day by way of experimenting with the Kindle, I found myself reading it at once, and so, almost without meaning to begin it, I've finished. In the book, first published in 1895, an unidentified narrator relates what he and others were told by the so-called Time Traveller, at whose house they were accustomed to congregate on successive Thursdays. The Time Traveller had built a time machine which he showed to the assembled one week. The following week, arriving at his own house for dinner late, sockless, and apparently injured, he told them of the experiences he'd had in the future since their last meeting. The Time Traveller had in fact gone very far into the future, looking to discover the ultimate fate of the earth, but he spent most of his time in the year 802,701. There he was greeted by strange descendants of humanity, the Eloi--small, childlike, sexless, pasty people, all of them having "the same girlish rotundity of limb." They spoke an uncomplicated, mellifluous language and all dressed similarly. (Here is the antecedent for that Star Trek trope, noted by Jerry Seinfeld, wherein everyone in the future always wears the same outfit.) The Eloi were strangely uninquisitive, apparently fearless, and they seemed to live in a sort of paradise, where man had thoroughly subjugated nature to his needs and, having nothing further to fear or for which to strive, had become soft. So, at least, the Time Traveller thought at first. But his first impressions turned out to be horribly mistaken, and the novel, in the end, is deeply pessimistic about the ultimate progress of mankind, Wells having taken the development of the relationship between the haves and the have-nots to its distressing extreme.
-- Debra Hamel
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I attempted to read one more "classic" story - H.G. Wells' The Time Machine.
The way people wrote stories back in the day is very different than what I'm used to. For the books I read, I don't know all the answers until the final twist.
For books that fall under the genre, "Classic" (i.e. Jekyll & Hyde, Invisible Man, etc...) you already know how things turn out.
Take this book for example. The Time Traveler invites his audience to his flat for dinner. As they are waiting for him to join them at the table, he stumbles out of a doorway and proceeds to tell them the story of his adventure traveling through time.
There shouldn't be any suspense because you already know that he survives the ordeal. Perhaps the purpose of this book, like it's classic cousins, is to inform the reader of some deeper point than just to deliver an action adventure story.
Having said all that, I am glad I finally picked it up and finished it.
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I thought this was a mostly good book,but some parts were a little creepy. Also some words were a little too big (but hey, more dictionary practice!).On the plus side, the plot is interesting, and it is a definitely a book i d recommend. It seemed to me like it was a cross between mystery and science fiction. For younger kids, I'd advise a retold version because of some of the big words and creepy parts. Overall, I'd say this is a good book to read.
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