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Sabrina
I read this book as a task challenge. I really dislike scientist books, therefore I do not want to give it a star rating, for it is not the author's fault I read something I knew I would dislike. ...more
Ben
Feb 01, 2013 rated it liked it
Summary: In a small english village an invisible man causes havoc when he (view spoiler)

Things I liked:

Style: The author used a sort of epistological style as if he was recreating the story based on the hearsay and reports of people that
had been around at the time.

Short: I always appreciate a book that manages to deliver something in less than 300 pages that other take 900 to do.

Things I thought could be improved:

Number of characters: In some
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Patricia Ng
Mar 05, 2010 rated it liked it
To be frank, this book bored me in the first half of the book. Thought the description of the Invisible Man and the people's reaction towards him is pretty interesting, Wells failed to create a suspense that can drive the reader to continue his/her reading. As the title of this book is 'The Invisible Man', the main character of the story is the Invisible Man, so we know that the man who enters the inn with odd behaviours has to be the Invisible Man. Since everyone knows who he is, it will be bor ...more
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Dioni
Jul 26, 2013 rated it it was ok
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Vivek kumar
Oct 13, 2014 rated it it was amazing
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Sep 13, 2016 rated it really liked it
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