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    <body><![CDATA[This book is much more compelling than Time Machine.  I had to keep reading and wanted to finish the story.  As usual, he has some interesting and thought provoking themes which are still relevent to us.  Should we be manipulating plants and animals to suit our needs?  In our search for understandin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15198142">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Something I'll never forget--Wells' favorite adverb in this book is &quot;presently.&quot;  He makes good use of this word as his character Edward Prendick vividly retells his experience of being stranded on an island with the &quot;mad scientist&quot; Dr. Moreau and his sot of an assistant Montgome...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9586162">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had seen at least one movie version of this book, and perhaps even read it before as a child, when I picked it up last night. It really is an excellent book, though some of the sentiments are a bit outdated. It addresses the meaning of humanity, religion, scientific progress. At points it is frigh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1151889">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Review – The Island of Dr. Moreau<br/><br/>I was wary when I picked up The Island of Dr. Moreau, having for some reason not liked H.G. Wells in my younger days. I was surprised at how refreshing and strange the book was, and how well it read.<br/><br/>The book is not without its flaws. The den...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49784314">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The novel opens with an introduction in which the protagonist feigns amnesia in order to escape responsibility for ambiguous episodes in the history.  Prendick’s account of events in the dinghy sounds unconvincing, self-justifying, or at least as if much has been left unsaid.  At the very least, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62681817">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was great fun reading this book.  Wells had a real knack for telling compelling stories involving complicated scientific issues of his day.  But the real force of this story lies in the underlying theological/philosophical issues he brings up and develops.  Wells was definitely a Darwinian evolut...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45488765">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There must be few educated people alive today who are unaware of the theory of evolution of species, even if they do not know the technical details or if they reject it out right.  It is difficult in such a society to imagine the startlement, even shock, many people experienced when Darwin's ideas b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46740758">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was motivated to read this book after listening to a disturbing interview on the ethics of human enhancement from an Oxford Philosopher (Download at iTunes U - <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/ox-ac-uk-public.1678408153.01678408158.1678426095?i=1716466711" title="http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/ox-ac-uk-public.1678408153.01678408158.1678426095?i=1716466711">http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core...</a> ).  I was disturbed not only by the reasoning of this philosopher but by what kind of things a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69961790">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got this as one of my 100 free classics.  I vaguely remember the movie.  The book is good.  Fortunately HG Wells doesn't write in too crazy of a style.  I've never made it through lots of the classics because I prefer modern English to anything else (no Grapes of Wrath, no Jane Eyre, etc.).  I rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37930138">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first time I've read any H.G. Wells, and i don't know what took me so long. I picked this book to start with because it was alluded to in Kings of Infinite Space, plus of course there are many references to Wells' classics in popular culture (I know there was a Simpsons Halloween episode...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76169617">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After Darwin’s theories of evolution were published, Victorians had to come to terms with the fact that they were descended from apes rather than angels - could they take a step down the evolutionary ladder as easily as they stepped up? This idea of reversion is obvious in Dr Moreau.<br/><br/>We...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60901242">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A &quot;classic&quot; book that truly is one.  A man is on a remote island with a Dr. performing surgery/vivesection on animals in an attempt to make them human.  Yes, not a subtle way to explore what it means to be human or difference between humans and the animal kingdom but very well done.  Also,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50910156">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first impression of this novel was that it seemed fairly straightforward. My initial suppositions on what sort of experiments the doctor was conducting were wrong, and I soon discovered the true premise of this novel, which is far more disturbing. There isn't a lot of direct terror in this novel,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66074305">more...</a>]]></body>
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