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Summary: The Time Machine by HG Wells
Review: The Time Machine is one of the most imaginative works to be
created in late 19th century England. The work is well written. The author integrates theoretical physics with
literary themes to create a challenging scenario well into the
far future of existence on planet earth. When the book was first
written, the notion of time travel was pure fantasy. Today,time
travel is occupying more space in the Scientific American and
other respected bastions in the world of science and mathematics.
This is a model book for students in regards to sentence
structure, advanced vocabulary, writing elegance and
the use of standard english to communicate novel ideas.
The author takes us into the far future and back by utilizing
a yet uninvented time machine to traverse the time dimension
which is beginning to be understood in reference to the
elliptical path of comets. The futuristic half-human and
half-beast life forms stretch the imagination; however,
this should be encouraged for young readers in particular.
The work helps to develop visual and nonlinear ways of
looking at things. It is highly recommended for students
in early high school and beyond. This work helps to reinforce
sentence structure and advanced vocabulary usage and
formulation. H.G. Wells, Nostradamos and Leonardo DaVinci
all spoke of yet uninvented instrumentalities that would come
into being at some time during the 500 or so years following
their lives on this earth.
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Summary: A Colorful and Imaginative Book
Review: 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."
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Summary: A Very Imaginative Book
Review: I found The Time Machine to be very imaginative story. It takes you away from reality and opens your mind to the future. It actually makes you use your brain and think. It was nice to read a book that turned on your imagination skills. H.G. Wells had an extensive vocabulary. I really enjoyed this book. I would recommend it to people who enjoy science fiction books.
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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: Interesting ideas create a base for amazing writing.
Review: The book The Time Machine by H. G. Wells is written well, poses interesting ideas, and is unable to put down after one starts reading it. In the course of reading this book one starts to dwell on the idea of what the future will be like and if the horror in the novel will come to pass. The book is written in an easy to understand manner, so reading it takes a shorter amount of time. Wells takes the position that the ideas posed are more important than the fashion that they are posed in the writing of this. The emotions that are described in the book are illustrated in such great detail that one becomes immersed in the story making it unable to stop reading. The main idea conveyed is that after strength and mind have left humanity only compassion will be left to characterize us.
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Summary: The Time Machine Is A Great Book...A Must Read!
Review: H.G. Wells' timeless classic, The Time Machine, was a great read. I thought it was well worth my "TIME." I gave this book, **** (4 stars). The story is about a time traveling scientist who studies the 4th dimension...Time. He builds this incredible machine, (the time machine) in order to travel through time forwards or backwards. He moves forward about 800,000 years from now in only a matter of minutes! He meets mystical young people named the Eloi. They were humans, but have evolved over time into smaller, gentler people. The story follows him on his journey through this brave new world, where he suffers many hardships. I thought this book was very imaginative and creative. The book made me pull out my rusty old imagination and made me feel like I was literally back in the third grade! For example, when the time traveler lands in the new world, H.G. Wells describes the Eloi people and their surroundings. He does a great job using imagery and colorful details. Another reason I gave this book 4 stars was because it was suspenseful. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time I read this book. I wished the book never ended. H.G. Wells builds up a lot of suspense and then just when you would think its over...he hits you with another suspenseful event! He does that many times throughout the story, yet, it never gets old. This book can almost be considered a "suspenseful, yet colorful, thriller," from my point of view. That is why I gave this book 4 stars.
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Summary: A "TIMELESS" CLASSIC
Review: Written by H.G Wells in late19th century London, the style, pace, and language used in the book are what you would expect from an English book of that time. Very old fashioned and complex- but beautiful and captivating. The Time Machine has become an undisputed classic, almost everyone has read it. A short book, it is only 123 short pages, but a powerful and moving one. Raising legitimate and puzzling questions about the future of the human race, and illustrating just how easily humans can be reduced to animalistic behavior make this book more than just a light hearted adventure story. The Time Machine makes you seriously think, and takes you on one hell of an adventure along the way. Although it was written in England more than 100 years ago, it was far ahead of its time. Ironically, I believe this old, English book to be the quintessential modern American novel. Why? It's short, fast paced, action packed, highly enjoyable, and easily digestible. Sounds what Americans nowadays look for n books, music, and movies doesn't it? At the same time, it brings up serious questions about the fate of humanity and invokes powerful emotions. All books have some problems, and The Time Machine is no exception. Despite its flaws, it is a "timeless" classic. Strong points of The Time Machine include lovely prose, ingenious plotting, perfect pacing and rhythm, thought provoking and meaningful questions, and a clearly expressed distaste (on the part of H.G. Wells) for theatrical devices, conformity and predictability that so often haunt most books (even those that have attained "classic" status). Wells does do a fantastic, and nearly unrivaled, (so far as I've read) job of describing emotions and feelings, particularly negative ones: "I felt hopelessly cut off from my own kind - a strange animal in an unknown world. I must have raved to and fro, screaming and crying upon god and fate." Unfortunately, Wells falls short in some aspects just as much as he excels in others. The imagery and synesthesia is underdeveloped (one reason for the brevity of the book), the story is everything. Wells has great ideas and stories, but can't develop a character for his life. Mysterious (in a bad way) characters, most of which have no names, are given no physical descriptions, no information is given about their background, and no impression of their true temperament revealed. In fact, he can't really describe anything (characters, animals, buildings, scenery, etc) beyond vague measurements. That being said, this does not detract from the book at all. Some of the greatest Sci-Fi novels of all time (including everything by Asimov) all suffer from these problems. It's just the way Sci-Fi is written. Characterization in the book was weak, so there is not much to say about the unnamed "Time Traveler." We know he is male, and we know he is a brilliant scientist that lives in the 19th century. No family history or background information is given, and we have no idea what he was doing before the story began, or what his life is really like. He has one objective: to find out what happens to the human race in the future. Through the rest of the book we do learn a little more about him, and gradually we come to realize that he is a good deal more complicated than one might first assume. The beginning of the story sees his arrival in the future as a composed and intellectual man. From the point his time machine is stolen on, he goes through a transformation. Desperate and isolated in a strange new world, he becomes over-emotional, upset, frustrated, and seriously disturbed at finding the human race in its current state. As he learns more about his future society, his own humanity begins to slip away. Anger, hatred, vengeance, sadism, replace his previous feelings of helplessness. "I could hear the succulent giving of flesh and bone under my blows, and for a moment I was free. The strange exultation that so often seems to accompany hard fighting came upon me." This transformation happens in a matter of days. H.G. Wells is trying to show that given the right circumstances, how easily a supposedly "refined" and "civilized" can be reduced into a snarling beast. Or in the case of all humanity, simple and ignorant children. "It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers."
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Summary: A good book
Review: Although I didn't like this one as much as Wells' other books, I did enjoy it and I am glad I read it. His view of the future is one that is interesting and thought-provoking. The book remains fresh and suprising despite its age. Unfortunately, it doesn't really seem to go anywhere. The reader learns the theme of the book pretty early on, and the rest of the book the reader follows the time traveler home. I feel like Wells could have done more with this book and done more with the main character, the time traveler. Although this book was fun to read, and the theme was very interesting and worth thinking about, more could have been done and the reader is left a little unfulfilled. If you have read HG Wells and enjoyed his other books then I definately think you should read this one. If not, I suggest you start with some of his other works like Dr. Moreau or The Invisible Man.
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Summary: TIME TRAVELLING
Review: Overall I thought THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. WELLS was a very excellent book. It was suspenseful, thrilling and not at all like the bomb, they called a movie. It starts off with an interesting introduction with the narrator, the time traveller and a group of men who the time traveller intends to preach to. He demonstrates to the group of men with a small machine he has built that is about the size of a clock. The spectators are sceptic and quickly criticize the man. I really like chapter one because I started to imagine myself in this situation as the time traveller. It puts a seed of imagination in the readers mind and feeds it as the book continues. The seed grew into an amazing tree of thoughts and wonders of "what ifs" by the time I had finished the novel. The narrator explains of how the time traveller gets into a much larger machine and quickly disapears with the pull of a lever. He experiences feelings of headlong motion as it turns into exhileration. And becomes frightened as he is about to stop, so he pulls the lever to go farther into the future. I liked this part, because it is explained in elaborate details and the first characters from the future are brought in to the scenes. The narrator describes them as "foolish and indolent"(CH.4). The novel ranges in setting from modern time to the year 802,701 AD to the end of the Earth three million years into the future and back to modern times. This kept me interested throughout the entire book. The author displays great detail into the detail of the main character, the time traveller. It is explained throughout the many chapters that he is intelligent. He reflects on his theories more than a normal person should but I don't blame him for i probably would do the same were I in his situation. I thought this fact was very strange but also very interesting. The narrator explains how when the traveller goes through time at thousands of years per second, he notices night and day go by very quickly along with the seasons and years. It is also explained that the sun begins to become larger and redder. And the Earth has stopped rotating. The Earth still circles the sun just like the moon used to do before it died. This begins to explain the end of the world as the sun is dying out and all life is fading away. This part was very interesting but also quite saddening because the world is coming to an end. But one must realize that he will be long gone and dead and reincarnated, if you believe in that, before the end of the world comes. I really liked this part, it opened my mind and I thought into this book alot more than any ohter book I have read. I really liked this book and would recommend it to anyone who might think to read it.
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Summary: The Time Machine
Review: The Time Machine, written by H. G. Wells was an interesting book about a man who travels through time. Not a whole lot of information is given on this character, other than he is a scientist who has created a time machine to travel through time. Not even his name is given, although he is addressed as the 'Time Traveller'. Other than this, that is just about all that is said about him. The other characters are not described too well either, their names and their profession are given but not too much else. I feel H. G. Wells does this to try to stir the reader's imagination and make them form their own characters and conclusions.
The story starts out with the Time Traveller just returning from his travels and is hoasting a dinner party with other scientists and people who have a high status in society so he may explain his travels to them.
The Time Traveller tells the guests that he entered a whole different time, the year 802,700. He then goes on to explain about the people he met there. He met two kinds of people, or creatures. They were known as the Noli and the Morlocks. The Noli were peacefull creatures and also very childlike. They were small and very kind. "Indeed, there was something in these pretty little people that inspired confidence -a graceful gentleness, a certain childlike ease." On the other hand the Morlocks were just the opposite, they were big and hairy, mean and very cruel, they also eat Noli at night. Therefore the Noli are terrified of the night time because they fear they are going to be eaten. Through the story the Time Traveller becomes friends with the Noli and learns their language and their way of life while he tries to find his time machine. The Morlocks stole the machine and prevents the Time Traveller from finding it.
H. G. Wells uses very descriptive words to describe some of the landscape, but not so much the people. "The big doorway opened into a proportionately great hall hung with brown. The roof was in shadow, and the windows, partially glazed with coloured glass and partially unglazed, admitted a tempered light." He then goes on more to talk about what the floor is made up of and all these other details that can clearly paint a picture in your mind. There are other parts which he does not describe so clearly such as "The arch of the doorway was richly carved, but naturally I did not observe the carving very narrowly, though I fancied I saw suggestions of old Phoenician decorations as I passed through." I did not find this to be too descriptive, but it still gave the reader a basic knowlege of what it was like.
Overall i found this book to be very interesting as it made me think of how it can relate to today's society. I urge anyone to read this book because it is a classic and a must read.
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