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Wells’s Time Traveller tells a bleak vision for the far-flung future of mankind, in which our civilization amounts to “a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end”.
My third novel by Wells. I quite like him as a writer. I also appreciated this while reading his “War of the Worlds”, but he has the ability to convincingly capture the humanity of the characters he’s dropped into his outlandish scenarios. His characters panic, acutely feel their physical d ...more
My third novel by Wells. I quite like him as a writer. I also appreciated this while reading his “War of the Worlds”, but he has the ability to convincingly capture the humanity of the characters he’s dropped into his outlandish scenarios. His characters panic, acutely feel their physical d ...more
I love time travel novels, but this was not good for me. This was obviously the book that started the time travel genre. The genre has grown so much since this. I was bored throughout. I usually love a story, but the first person writing made me tired. Nothing changed - the Morlocks and the Eloi stayed the same. Basically, the future sucked. I didn't get anything out of this book other than happiness that I checked it off my list. It was short, thankfully. I didn't like it, but am happy to defer
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I have had an amazing time while mentally travelling with our time traveler.
I have enjoyed so many books by H.G. Wells, but not this one.
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