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Summary: a must read for any Wells or Verne fan!
Review: This book is one of my favorite Wells books.It is about this guy who gets 'trapped' on this island. and this island is inhabited by an infamous scientist/doctor who was 'exiled' from England. Anyway, the doctor is Moreau. And this Moreau guy gets animals and tries to make them more human. What really bothered me about this is that he really had no reason for doing this. It might be a different case if he was actually benifitting the world by doing this. But no, he was just doing this for his own personal curiosity. This also immedietly made me think of our own conflicting opinions and moral dillemas we have with genetic engineering.
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Summary: incredibly good
Review: I love this book! H.G. Wells is a first class master of writing fiction. When I read this book it seemed like I was actually watching a movie. His writing is so good it makes you see in your head what he is writing about. The book is about a scientist who tries to make animals into human beings and the vengence these animals take on the mad doctor. The plot,characterization, theme, descriptions and everything in the book is first rate. Wells is without question in the top ten list of the best writers of all time. Only Shakespeare and Poe are better. I have read a lot of fictional books and some of them are totally boring, but Wells has the ability to hook you into his stories. I really enjoyed this book and all of Wells books. HE IS GREAT!
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Summary: The law
Review: There is one scene: Prendrick has fled the compound and has entered the village of the beast people. He sits in on a bizarre ceremony where a leader recites the laws of the beast people. The reader, with a heavy ominous sense, can feel that these laws are ultimately meant to be broken . . .Though the story is crowded at the beginning with the plot logistics of stranding the narrator on the island with Moreau and his creations, and the ending is sort of rushed, Wells has created a horror novel of startling implications and fantastic imagination. You'll never look at your genetically engineered tomatoes the same way again.
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Summary: H.G. Wells is a genius.
Review: Wells story is about shipwrecked, Charles Edward Prendick whom is adrift in an open boat when the boat is sightedby a passing ship. He rescuer is a man by the name of Montgomery. This man has a strangley deformed man as his servant. Prendick can not understand why he finds this man so revolting. The ships cargo is composed of animals bound for a small island inhabitated by Montgomery and Dr. Moreau. The secret on this island is the terrifying lifework of Dr. Moreau, i.e., creatures that look a bit like Montgomery's deformed servant.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: Forget the cheesy film adaptations (Island of Lost Souls a notable exception) and stick with this classic novel that will curl the hairs on the back of your neck. A brilliant piece of specualtive fiction that is just as relevant today as it was over one hundred years ago.
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Summary: -
Review: 100-150 years ago, there were two visionary authors who became the pioneers of the science fiction genre. The first, who predicted the coming of space travel, sea travel, and modern geology, among other things, was Jules Verne. The second, who developed the idea of an Invisible Man, Martian Invaders, Time Machines, Atomic Energy, and Genetic Engineering, was H.G. Wells. The greatest works of Verne came true and yet men still strive to accomplish the ideas developed by Wells. Which one was the true visionary? However, two famous works of Wells HAVE come true. The first is his beliefs for the use of Atomic Energy in 'The World Set Free,' the other is man's perfection of nature in 'The Island of Dr. Moreau.' The main difference is that his modern day's 'viviseciton' has been replaced by OUR modern day's genetic engineering. Here is classic Wells; man's struggle with concepts of nature which he cannot comprehend, his inevitable downfall, and salvation and forgiving through nature. Yet in 'The Island of Dr. Moreau,' Wells's belief that humans are basically evil is never more easy to see. It also flows at a much smoother pace than some of his other novels, however certain parts can be hard to understand (I still don't understand exactly HOW the animals can talk and why they revert back to animals after 10 months WITHOUT Moreau as opposed to being half-humans for years WITH Moreau). And the end feels rushed as well. Overall, I would recommend it to anyone who appreciates science, literature, and the strange feeling that comes with the realization that a book that seems so modern was written so long ago.
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Summary: Memorable
Review: I would have given it five stars if it wern't so short.The Island of Dr. Moreau is about a man named Prendick who , after his ship was distroyed, ended up one way or other on a small island. On this island is an exiled scientist from London, who does strange and cruel experements on animals. The strange animals here live in a peaceful civilization. In this civilization there are laws, and if these laws are ever broken 'none escape' the 'Master'(Dr. Moreau) and are sent to the 'house of pain'. One of the laws is not to eat flesh or fish, and when this law is broken by one of the Beast-Folk all hell brakes loose and Dr. Moreau's world, and Prendick's, falls crashing all around them.
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Summary: They called Moreau their God
Review: Until I read this book, I didn't know that a serious novel about human like animals existed. Certainly H.G. Wells is not most well known as one of the fathers of sci-fi for this novel. It was one of his first, published in 1896, and the book lovers of the time must have really found this work disturbing and shocking. Maybe that's why The Island of Dr. Moreau has been playing catch up to The Time Machine and War of the Worlds ever since. I admit that I myself found the basic idea in this book very cruel, but I realized that the book covered other issues as well. Besides being the novel about an insane scientist who tries the hand at playing God, this book evokes thoughts of social responsibilty and freedom of all living things. Also, it shows that sometimes who we think of as being authority really have no right to be, and deals with anarchy and revolution. But it is the basic plot that has the most effect. Why does Moreau torture animals so that can make them in the image of man? Dr. Moreau beats Victor Frankenstein on who is a more of a nutcase. Frankenstein intended for something good to come out of his work. Moreau did his experiments just for curiosity. He didn't expect for his creations to have any real purpose. He didn't care for them. And yet he brainwashes his creations to fear and respect him, to treat him like a god, and follow his laws. And another thought occurs. What really seperates man from beast? What causes humans to sometime commit violent and brutal acts? What does that account for? When I read this novel, the reality of what genetic cloning may become years from now passed through my mind. If genetics had been an established science in the 1890's, Wells could of utilized it in this book, but he would probably have created a controversy beyond any proportion. But certainly the ignorance of genes back then was not his fault, and he came up with probably the best substition: vivisection. Being the substitute of what was unknown and likely more plausible, vivisection was more than enough to shock Well's audience of reading about the blasphemous idea of creating "Beast-People". I am certain that people in 1896 weren't ready for it. Neither are we. That's what I think is the main reason that The Island of Dr. Moreau isn't as popular as H.G. Wells other novels. I found, however, that this was a worthwhile read because its suspense and creepiness intrigued me, and it made me think of some social issues. If you're a person who can bear reading a grotesque story of cruelty and suffering, I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: More introspective than horrific
Review: Despite the many screen reditions of the classic tale it is lacking in much of the proported gore and suspense. I found the book slow and unappealing at first. It was not until the very end during the main characters return to london and his final monologue that I felt the book lived up to its "classic" status.
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Summary: The Island of Dr Moreau is a masterpiece.
Review: Written more than a century ago The Island of Dr Moreau is still read by many people to this day. An Englishman is shipwrecked and lands on the island where Dr Moreau portrays god and struggles to create the perfect race. Messages on evolution and the misuse of intelligence is found throughout the book. Issues on the role of God and his relationship with mankind are also discussed. Everyone can relate to The Island of Dr Moreau through the the beast people. We are the beast people surpressed by God, or Dr Moreau. We bury our intincts and our desires, and try to follow what society believes is right. Once in a while those emotions can no longer be hidden and they burst through our molded personalities. It is probable that this is what HG Wells was trying to express in his work since it was written in 1896, around the same time when Charles Darwin anounced the idea of evolution. There are passages in the book that make reference to the old testament. I enjoy this controversial aguement in The Island of Dr Moreau. This might well be the mystery that unkowingly intrigues poeple to read this book. Anyone will enjoy this classic science fiction thriller.
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