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    <body><![CDATA[Wells was a Fabian socialist and pacifist who devoted much of his work both in his fictions and non-fictions towards educating people.  In the Days of the Comet he presents a thought-experiment:  What if everyone became rational?<br/><br/>By &quot;rational&quot; I mean, upon first consideration, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65352602">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book appears at first glance to be about a comet endangering the earth. I bought this book when I was 10, but really couldn't get into it, because it really wasn't so much about the comet. When I picked it up again in college, it all made sense. This is a book for twenty-somethings, filled with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56372689">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading Utopian novels during a time of unrest is... interesting.  Are we really better off now than the masses of HG Wells' time?  Have we really learned anything since then?  Or have we just shifted the problems and discontent to a new stage?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This one is a little odd. It's another first-person narrative by Wells, and it draws its power from the author's own early life. There are serious references to class in this book. There are references to the desperation of the poor, and the rage which comes from being powerless. It's heavy stuff.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32213246">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was very disappointed with this book.  I expected this to be science fiction, like the other Wells I had read prior to reading it, but found instead a book of social comment, which ends with a magical deus ex when mysterious green gases from the comet in the title unaccountably make everyone see t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35261491">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The plot is wonderfully original and ridiculous - but it holds up, and I think Wells' intentions here are as relevant today as when the book was written.  And still probably just as lost on people.  If it held my attention, I can't help but be impressed.]]></body>
    
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