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My favorite kind of hero – independently wealthy eccentric. Pursues the fourth dimension and with some crystals and brass can zip back and forth in time. Spectacularly unprepared on his first trip – no snacks or umbrella. Better preparation the second time, but that is the one he does not come back from!
Morlocks and Eloi – workers and capitalists – the world ends in twilight. Pretty dark view of progress, where with a long enough timeline it all basically goes to dust such as the books in the m ...more
Morlocks and Eloi – workers and capitalists – the world ends in twilight. Pretty dark view of progress, where with a long enough timeline it all basically goes to dust such as the books in the m ...more
It's kinda crazy that I had never read this before my book club decided on it as our November book. I listened to half of the book and read the other half, and I think it really helped me get into the rhythm of the writing style. H.G. Wells is a great writer. He somehow managed to combine eloquence with action in a way that keeps you enveloped in the language and the story at the same time. The Time Machine is also really fascinating as a piece of history and social commentary. I loved how the n
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Not bad. Somewhat anticlimactic. Aside from the communist sympathies, H. G. Wells still sounds fairly colonialist/condescending in some of his descriptions. Still, it deserves its position in the SF canon.
Oct 01, 2009
Stern Gaussmann
marked it as to-read
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Chris Fenton
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Terri Kinney
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Charlotte Kozak
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