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  <title>The Island of Dr. Moreau (Bantam Classics)</title>
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  <read_at>Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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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 It really is an excellent book, though some of the sentiments are a bit outdated.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 frightening and at others poignant. The description of the screams of animals as Moreau vivisected them is very disturbing. The story reads as both a nightmare and a commentary on man. I’d like to read more by Wells, especially after reading the biography of him in the front of this volume. Apparently he was extraordinarily prescient in predicting the future.]]></body>
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