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Title: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells ISBN: 0-8125-0504-2 Publisher: Tor Classics Pub. Date: 15 December, 1992 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.23 (201 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Colorful and Imaginative Book
Comment: H.G. Wells' timeless novel, "The Time Machine," was a great book and well worth my TIME. You will wish some elements of this story were real so you could go back and read it again and again. This story is about a man who studys about the 4th dimension (time). He comes up with a remarkable idea and decides to build a time machine! With this machine, he is able to travel forwards or backwards in time. He travels way into the distant future, about 803 thousand years from now. He lands in a mystical place with gentle, little inhabitants called the "Eloi." They are human-like people that have evolved over time. On his journey, he is faced with many qualms and incorrigible situations. How does he deal with these problems? Does he make it back to his old time dimension? Read the book to find out...
I particularly enjoyed this book because it kept me wondering and on the edge of my seat. It also stretched my imagination so much, as if I were back in the third grade! H.G. Wells' vivid interpretations of the future were interesting and suspenseful; For those reasons, "I dub thee 4 stars."
Rating: 4
Summary: Advanced, yet amazing!
Comment: The Time Machine was a very advanced book! It was written in 1895 but still H.G. Wells uses vivid descriptions and has one heck of an imagination. It starts with him in a meeting and he tells his friends of his plans to build a machine to travel through time with. I thought the book would tell about many different trips into the future or past, but it only told of one. The Time Traveller, as the main character is called, tells of his trip millions of years into the future where he encounters an evolved form of the human beings we associate with in our time. When I realized that the book would only be about one trip into the far future, I thought the book would just ramble on about a week or two, but it was surprisingly interesting. I really enjoyed The Time Machine and I thought it was a great book. The only thing that made me give it four stars was how tough some of the concepts were to grasp. You can still read and enjoy the book without totally understanding what it is based off of, but it makes you wonder and really think about all the crazy things H.G. Wells came up with. I thought it was very hard to make sense of everything, but like I said, you can still enjoy the book without understanding everything. I would definitely recommend this book for anyone who likes science fantasy.
Rating: 3
Summary: A good book
Comment: Although I didn't like this one as much as Wells' other books, I did enjoy it and I am glad I read it. His view of the future is one that is interesting and thought-provoking. The book remains fresh and suprising despite its age. Unfortunately, it doesn't really seem to go anywhere. The reader learns the theme of the book pretty early on, and the rest of the book the reader follows the time traveler home. I feel like Wells could have done more with this book and done more with the main character, the time traveler.
Although this book was fun to read, and the theme was very interesting and worth thinking about, more could have been done and the reader is left a little unfulfilled. If you have read HG Wells and enjoyed his other books then I definately think you should read this one. If not, I suggest you start with some of his other works like Dr. Moreau or The Invisible Man.
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