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Summary: Timeless and eloquent
Review: This novel is truly a great. It sucks you in in only that way that H.G. Wells can. A very intelligent and logical man discovers how to make himself invisible. That's great, except that the process is quite painful. You'd think being invisible would be great, only it's not. You can see through your eyelids, so you can't sleep. Sleeplessness leads to madness. And what about food? You must procure it somehow, and being invisible makes that difficult, as is making friends. All this leads to a madness no one can truly understand, only H.G. Wells makes you see behind this madness to see the logical man gone mad.
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Summary: This book was intersting!
Review: This story was about an interesting topic. It was cool that the man turned himself invisible. I thought that if you were invisible, you could go through walls, doors, etc. but when I read this story, I learned that you can't. But the story of this book was kinda boring. I think the author should have written this story more vividly so I could of liked this book better. Steven Yum, ASI
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Summary: Does The Invisible Man Get Sunburned?
Review: This was a fabulous novel by the likes of H.G. Wells. Though it may be science fiction, it does have a science fact sort of feel to it. Hearing the characters interact provides for the fleshing out of such personages.I read this book around the same time I read some Edgar Rice Burroughs. They both have a way with words which make the blatantly false seem all the more real, while I suspend my disbelief indefinitely. The world needs more writers like this.
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Summary: Great novelization
Review: Wells' novelization of the great Ray Milland classic, *The Invisible Man*, is a classic rendering of a classic film. It's a brilliant masterpiece at least as brilliant as the brilliant remake of the classic Claude Rains classic, also called *The Invisible Man.* Rumor has it that Gertrude Stein coached Herbert though the challenges of writing for Hollywood. If so, all I can say is, "A rose by any other name would be redundant." Herbert rose to the occasion, and when you meet the Invisible Man, fleshed out in type, so will you. This is not a book to miss, no matter how many movies it rips off.
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Summary: Impeccable plot, Lots of Action but little character depth
Review: Wells' writing style is easy to read and enjoyable - it's clear that he had fun writing The Invisible Man. The plot is truly impeccable, there is a great deal of action and the pace never slows. The only weakness here is character development. It is difficult to really care about any of the characters, even those that are hurt or killed by the Invisible Griffin. The story begins when the bandaged invisible man comes to Iping to rent a room. Though at first overjoyed to get a renter in the off season who doesn't quibble about the rates, Mr. & Mrs. Hall soon have their fill of their rude and truculent guest. When his suspicious behaviour begins to garner the attention of the rural citizens of Iping, the invisible man's rash and impudent reactions to them bring on a whirl of actions and reactions that ends up with the the Invisible man on the run and several of the citizens of Iping requiring medical attention. Events continue to escalate out of control when he runs into an acquaintence from school, Dr. Kemp, who knew the invisible man as Mr. Griffin. As Griffin explains how the story began, we lose all sympathy with our villain as we hear his callous treatment of his first victims prior to Iping. He then comes to the idea that his only method of 'escape' from his troubles is to bring about a reign of terror and declares the city of Port Burdock to be under his reign and not that of the Queen. By this time we are wholly ready for the resolution which speedily ensues. This story is not particularly scary although it had potential with the reign of terror bit. Good character development would have enabled this to cross the science fiction genre a bit more but you can't argue with results. As it is it will definitely be an enduring story and is well worth the read.
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Summary: Impeccable plot, Lots of Action but little character depth
Review: Wells' writing style is easy to read and enjoyable - it's clear that he had fun writing The Invisible Man. The plot is truly impeccable, there is a great deal of action and the pace never slows. The only weakness here is character development. It is difficult to really care about any of the characters, even those that are hurt or killed by the Invisible Griffin. The story begins when the bandaged invisible man comes to Iping to rent a room. Though at first overjoyed to get a renter in the off season who doesn't quibble about the rates, Mr. & Mrs. Hall soon have their fill of their rude and truculent guest. When his suspicious behaviour begins to garner the attention of the rural citizens of Iping, the invisible man's rash and impudent reactions to them bring on a whirl of actions and reactions that ends up with the the Invisible man on the run and several of the citizens of Iping requiring medical attention. Events continue to escalate out of control when he runs into an acquaintence from school, Dr. Kemp, who knew the invisible man as Mr. Griffin. As Griffin explains how the story began, we lose all sympathy with our villain as we hear his callous treatment of his first victims prior to Iping. He then comes to the idea that his only method of 'escape' from his troubles is to bring about a reign of terror and declares the city of Port Burdock to be under his reign and not that of the Queen. By this time we are wholly ready for the resolution which speedily ensues. This story is not particularly scary although it had potential with the reign of terror bit. Good character development would have enabled this to cross the science fiction genre a bit more but you can't argue with results. As it is it will definitely be an enduring story and is well worth the read.
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Summary: Fun!
Review: What a great idea to assemble scifi icons from Star Trek to perform various H.G. Wells's classics! Of the works they've performed are: The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The First Men in the Moon, and Journey to the Center of the Earth. This audio recording of The Invisible Man was easy listening, and fun too. It's definitely worth a listen. I'm going to have to check out the others! One side note, obviously the original work was abridged and adapted for audio drama. You'll still want to read the classic.
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Summary: Alien Voices have done it again
Review: What can I say? I'm a lover of the classics. H.G. Wells' THE INVISABLE MAN is one of the greatest sci-fi/horror stories of all times. Alien Voices brings this great piece of literature back to life with their version of it. John de Lancie and Leonard Nimoy bring their characters (Giffin and Kemp) a certain realistic quality which only they can do. Bravo!!!! Another Alien Voices success.
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Summary: Very good,but probably not H.G. Wells best...
Review: When the movie "Hollow Man" camed along, i thought it was going to be a modernized version of this book, so then i started reading it, this books it's very thrilling, smart, entertaining and suspenful, but this book didn't have to be that long, H.G. tries to make a long short story, but it would be a better book, if it cutted all those senseless chapters,also if he made a better descrpiption of what is he telling, it would be a better book, i give three and a half stars, because it feels just like if you are in there, and because it really has a very strong suspense and terror, but you rather read other H.G. Wells book such as "The Time Machine".
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