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The Time Machine

H.G. Wells

Start date: February 1, 2021

Finish date: February 28, 2021

Discussion: Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Aug 28, 2017 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it did not like it

Shelves: classics, dnf, 1001-books

DNF. I tried to like it. I am not a SciFi fan, but loved 1984 when my book club chose it earlier this year. This past month they chose this one and I was hopeful it would be equally as good. Unfortunately I couldn't finish it. ...more

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Nov 21, 2019 Book2Dragon rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, fantasy, scifi, reread, owned, political-civil, dystopian, classics, horror

I read this many, many years ago and only had a vague familiarity with the plot, but it certainly came back to me. At my age and here in the 21st century, it is interesting to read science fiction and what the authors thought the Earth might be in the future. Especially from a 19th century author as skilled as H.G. Wells.

I looked at some trailers for the movies made of this story last night. Reading this horror is one thing, and scary enough for me, but seeing it on screen just a bit too scary! ...more

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Feb 07, 2018 Kavitha Sivakumar rated it really liked it

Shelves: ir-armchair-2018

The start was very promising and riveting, when the time traveler traveled to distant future and come back. The rest of the novel is his explanation of his time travel. He find that humankind had evolved into two races, one living above the ground and one under the ground. He didn't understand their language at first and so he tried to figure out what could have happened for such evolution where the author give his personal view about how it will be in the future. The time traveler went even fur ...more

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May 13, 2020 Barb rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Can you imagine going through time and its nothing like you would expect, and then the reactions of friends when you get back to tell them!!

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Jan 15, 2023 Natalie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics

This book was an easy read and had several of the same elements of books from that time period (1890's): a narrator retelling his experience, a focus on the scientific ideas, and formal language.
In this story, the Time Traveller is telling his experiences to a group of professionals who are at his home for dinner. The listeners include a psychologist, the mayor, a medical man, an editor, and a journalist.
The Time Traveller explains he constructed a time machine and used it to travel far in the f ...more

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