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Summary: an astonishing book!!
Review: This book is amazing and is well worth your time no matter who or what age you are. The story is about a man who studies time and has a dream to travel in it. His dream comes true and awaiting him is a journey like no other. He travels very deep into the future only to be disgusted by its inhabitants and their culture. Even though he's still on Earth it's like he's on a different planet, and nothing is the same. While the Time Traveler is in the future his time machine is stolen by the evil Morlocks. The Time Traveler is faced with no help as he battles his newly found enemies to try to recover his machine. Does he recover the machine and return safely? Read the book to find out.I really enjoyed this book because it definitely keeps you on the edge of your seat. The book was written extremely well and ties together magnificently. This book is like no other and I highly recommend you to read it!
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Summary: A Concise Sampling of Wells' Remarkable Vision
Review: First published in 1895, THE TIME MACHINE was Wells' first novel--and it immediately established him at the forefront of writers of his era. And although Wells would go onto a very long and distinguished career that included some one hundred published books, THE TIME MACHINE remains one of his most popular novels to this day. The story has been famous for over one hundred years. The narrator, identified only as "The Time Traveler," has created a machine capable of moving through time. He boards the machine and rushes headlong into the future--where he finds himself in the strangely utopian society of the "Eloi." But unbeknownst to the time traveler, that society is built on the back of a much darker one, the underground world of the "Morlock," who supply the Eloi's every need in order to harvest them like cattle. Wells was an extremely didactic writer, a social reformer whose thoughts inform virtually everything he wrote. In many respects THE TIME MACHINE is the perfect example of this, drawing the reader in through an exciting story that Wells turns into a social parable. Born under the rigid class system of Victorian England, Wells had quite a lot to say about the benefits and evils of such a social system, and his thoughts on the subject are extremely clear here--as are his thoughts about the then-new theory of natural selection. The result is an elegant but often fearsome portrait of how class systems and natural selection might combine to create a uniquely horrific civilization. Wells would return to these themes again and again, perhaps most obviously in THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU and THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON--both excellent novels in their own right. But if you are new to Wells, THE TIME MACHINE is an excellent beginning, for it offers a sampling of his mind in remarkably concise fashion. Strongly recommended. GFT, Amazon Reviewer
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Summary: Science Fiction Classic study on society
Review: The Time Machine is one of the great classics of Science Fiction. Though there is not much to the 'science', merely the idea of a machine which could travel through time, no attempt is made to speak of the science involved in time travel. But, that's not really the point. This is a good work of societal study of what could happen with the division of the classes over time. Now, over a century after this work was first pened it's not so apparent...a person of any level has the ability to work thier way upwards in class, and class division isn't as much as it was then with a strong middle class and extreme lower and extreme upper classes in the minority. This is an important historical aspect to consider in relation to H.G. Wells's work. In the distant future, a world of polar opposites exists. The Eloi live in comfort and ease, they are the distant decendants of the upper classes who were waited on hand and foot, and who had achieved the ultimate in mastery over nature, and archetecture. Evoloution takes hold and intelligence and strength are no longer nessicary traits for survival, and so the Eloi are childlike, simple, and weak. They enjoy a simple life of playing, eating and sleeping when they feel like it, not bothered with providing themselves for food, clothing or shelter. The Morlocks, decendants of the miserably hard working, toiling servant classes live underground and tend to machinery. Thiers is a world of darkness, they are the unseen, just as thier forefathers 800 thousand years before were the unseen of society, needed, but not noticed, and relegated to the world of cellars and serving thier rich masters. However, evoloution has taken an ironic turn. With the excessive division of the classes, they have become different species. The Morlocks now keep the Eloy as we keep livestock, providing them with food, shelter, and clothing, and letting them live thier peacefull lives frolicking in thier pastures. And, as with cattle, the Eloi are little more than food for slaughter. We read of the Struggle of the Time Traveler, who remains unnamed in this work, as he must confront the Morlocks to regain his time machine and find his way home again.
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Summary: The greatest?
Review: Awesome book. Yeah, it was recently made into a movie, which was pretty good too. The book is much more straightforward, has (obviously) been around longer, and puts forth some of Wells' opinions and some good science of its day. Particularly striking is the central issue of the split between upper and working classes of people. While Wells' futuristic rendering of this rift may seem fantastic now, it does have the ring of ominous prophecy to it. Considering he wasn't too far off the mark about the future of communism in his fore-seeing War of the Worlds, readers may do well to take note of the message here.
There's a reason why Wells is possibly the greatest science fiction writer of all time. This read is evidence clear; and it'll only take you an afternoon.
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Summary: This is amazing book!
Review: i liked that book alot because it was really suspense and interesting book to me ..its just a science fiction but author put a strong thoughts and feelings in it so when are reading you get involved in it actually it grabs ur attention as far as you started to read. This something that tells about the future life and i its about a time traveler who was excited to know about the future so he builted an "time machine". This is novel is just something so different like i also try to make the new things.
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Summary: The Time Machine Book Review
Review: This book was completely riviting and compelling. It was a spectacular adventure and the perils the characters faced were extreme with excitement. H.G. Wells has written a masterpiece with The Time Machine.
The settings were so completely illustrated through the author's words that you were practically trasported with the Time Traveler. Even though it is fiction, H.G. Wells makes it a wonderfully real world and shows that things are not always as they seem.
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Summary: Superb!
Review: Now, I wont tell you the story too much but yes there is a slightly eccentric scientist in it but he's more a gent and a genius than an eccentric. It actually fuses sci-fi with a very emotional side. H.G. Wells is a genius. How many Sci-Fi books can be so touching that they make you cry? It has quite a bleak view of things to come but a few things give this away as pure fantasy. At first I hated the ending but it leaves your imagination on 10 gallons of fantasy petrol!
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Summary: A very good science fiction novel. READ THE BOOK FIRST
Review: H.G. Wells properly deserves the title of the founder of science fiction. His novels are disciplined, very well-written, and devoid of the open ends and sheer fantasy that plague so much of this genre. (See the commentary to my review of War of the Worlds.) The present work deals with Wells's view of the far future. Only a fleeting, rather optimistic, view of the near future is offered in the second chapter. Well's nameless time traveler ventures to the warmer world of 802,701 A.D. and finds man divided into two camps, the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi are a gentle, winsome, idle race, who are served by, (and to), the Morlocks, a subterranean group of more barbaric beings who use the Eloi for food. The Morlocks only come up at night, of course. Many people feel that Wells based this division on the growing disparity between the working class and the English aristocracy. This viewpoint is easily understood. The two latest movies based on this novel destroy both its essence and its meaning, in my view. The movies' intellectual content is zero, whereas the book exhibits Wells's genuine concern over future evolution based on present sociological trends. The book is extremely interesting, and displays the wide range of intellectual gifts enjoyed by this eminent novelist and writer. Perhaps the most fascinating part of the book is the further travels into time, after 802,701 A.D. In the unexpunged version, the time traveler goes into a period where the sun has faded to an orangeish color, and the world is dominated by 30-foot-long insects who prey on the rabbit-sized animal descendants of man. Even more fascinating is Wells' vision of the dimly distant future when the sun has expanded and faded to a reddish hull filling half the sky. The only living thing seen on Earth at that point is a crab-like creature foundering on a cold ocean shore. Wells's phraseology captures this forlorn event better than any movie ever could. The time traveler then returns with only a faded mallow, and a bruise, to show for his troubles. He informs Wells' narrator that he will travel again, but he then disappears, never to return. Wells accurately envisioned then-unkown developments in astronomy, biology, global warming, and physics with startling accuracy, even though his time calculations are amiss. Even today, his ability to create things out of his imagination that have since come to pass is unmatched. The book is entertaining, thought-provoking, and marvelously written; a true gem. I recommend it to one and all, very highly.
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Summary: A 7th Grade Review
Review: In "The Time Machine" by:H.G. Wells,
a respected scientist invents a time machine. He demonstrates a model to several people and insists that traveling through time is possible. Also, he claims, that once he completes his machine, he will attempt to do so. When they meet again at his house, they find a note saying that if he's not there by 8:00 to start eating the food on the table. At about 8:30, they hear someone coming down the stairs who turns out to be, as they call him, the Time Traveller. What worries them is that he's walking with a limp and his clothes are in rags. He insists on eating before he tells them his story, which I won't tell you about.
I would recommend this book to people 12 and up. It's quite complicated and at times can be tough to understand. It's also very graphic about his revenge on the Morlocks, which are intelligent, sub-terranian creatures that come out at night.
I rate this book with four stars. I give it this rating because it takes forever to get to the point and isn't very descriptive about the way things look. I can hardly get a picture in my mind of what his time machine looked like.
I give "The Time Machine" By:H.G. Wells 4 stars
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Summary: No 1 book of all times
Review: Simply superb. From start to end. And the last paragraph of the book is really heart-breaking I must say.
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