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Title: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, Greg Bear ISBN: 0-451-52855-7 Publisher: Signet Classics Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.23 (202 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Advanced, yet amazing!
Comment: The Time Machine was a very advanced book! It was written in 1895 but still H.G. Wells uses vivid descriptions and has one heck of an imagination. It starts with him in a meeting and he tells his friends of his plans to build a machine to travel through time with. I thought the book would tell about many different trips into the future or past, but it only told of one. The Time Traveller, as the main character is called, tells of his trip millions of years into the future where he encounters an evolved form of the human beings we associate with in our time. When I realized that the book would only be about one trip into the far future, I thought the book would just ramble on about a week or two, but it was surprisingly interesting. I really enjoyed The Time Machine and I thought it was a great book. The only thing that made me give it four stars was how tough some of the concepts were to grasp. You can still read and enjoy the book without totally understanding what it is based off of, but it makes you wonder and really think about all the crazy things H.G. Wells came up with. I thought it was very hard to make sense of everything, but like I said, you can still enjoy the book without understanding everything. I would definitely recommend this book for anyone who likes science fantasy.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Colorful and Imaginative Book
Comment: H.G. Wells' timeless novel, "The Time Machine," was a great book and well worth my TIME. You will wish some elements of this story were real so you could go back and read it again and again. This story is about a man who studys about the 4th dimension (time). He comes up with a remarkable idea and decides to build a time machine! With this machine, he is able to travel forwards or backwards in time. He travels way into the distant future, about 803 thousand years from now. He lands in a mystical place with gentle, little inhabitants called the "Eloi." They are human-like people that have evolved over time. On his journey, he is faced with many qualms and incorrigible situations. How does he deal with these problems? Does he make it back to his old time dimension? Read the book to find out...
I particularly enjoyed this book because it kept me wondering and on the edge of my seat. It also stretched my imagination so much, as if I were back in the third grade! H.G. Wells' vivid interpretations of the future were interesting and suspenseful; For those reasons, "I dub thee 4 stars."
Rating: 5
Summary: Still a Great Adventure
Comment: H.G. Wells, in The Time Machine, spins a classic tale full of adventure, vivid landscapes, sci-fi speculation and even a bit of veiled socialist politics.
An eccentric scientist, known only as the Time Traveller to us, invents a machine that can travel along the fourth dimension, which he has discovered to be time. He flings himself into the far future. Is there high civilization? No. Is there high technology? No. What he finds in the future is far more curious...
Personally, I couldn't put it down. I was reading it on a train trip, and I was so involved, I almost missed my station! Well's style really drew me in. It was like being told the story by an old friend. His descriptions are simple and effective, and you can almost feel the curiousity of the Time Traveller. Like him, you will want to know what happens next, from the speculations at the beginning, to the question filled ending.
Though much of it has been imitated and repeated in time travelling stories since, I thought the "scientific" parts of the book were still fresh today, particularly the reasons Wells gives for why we can't naturally go back in time, and why you will never see a person in the process of travelling back in time. Very clever.
In some ways, the "future" part of the book is a cautionary tale, in some ways it's a social commentary. Either way, the general message I got is that the actions of the past will have consequences in the future, even if we might not see them. Extensions of this concept have been very well used in science fiction since.
If you're looking for a well written adventure to capture you're imagination for a few hours, the Time Machine is a book worth checking out. Exciting and thought provoking all the way.
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