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Summary: Five stars!
Review: I first read this book when I was a little kid. I read it over and over. Wells' magic is unsurpassed. I love it!Now, about the reviews that clutter up this place. Are these class assignments that some stupid teacher gave to his dumbed down students, having them put their little reviews about how "the plots to hard" and "its boring" and "it sucks" onto amazon.com? I see that a lot. It messes up the rating system, too. Then there's a guy giving *Time Machine* a low rating for some political message that he fancies he sees here. Look, this book gets five stars. Five freakin stars, and that's that. Do you understand? Five stars. Maybe the plots too hard for you and the Morlocks aren't Politically Correct enough for you, but The Time Machine is great and wonderful and it is a five freakin star book!
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Summary: The Time Machine
Review: I think this is a good book because had a lot of cool things in it. It had ghosts and morlocks in it.This is a good book to read because was kind of easy but some words were hard.I like this book how the time traveller made the time machine but at the end of the book the time traveller gets killed by the morlocks.None of the villagers never knew that the time traveller was gone.
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Summary: Wells did not have an accurate view of society.
Review: H.G. Wells used science fiction as a medium in which to promote his ideas. This book is typical of his work in that it supports the following ideas: 1) People are, in general, bad, wicked, and evil. 2) As time goes on, the condition that we live in will get worse and worse. 3) Technology is bad, and causes more harm than good. 4) Capitalism causes suffering. 5) Socialism is good. Contrast this with the wonderful book MYSTERIOUS ISLAND by Jules Verne. That book expresses a very deep appreciation for freedom. And the characters are portrayed as heroes while they use their minds to develop technology to improve their quality of life. You can get MYSTERIOUS ISLAND right here at amazon.com. And if you like MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, then you might also want to read ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand, which is also available here at amazon.com Wells was a pessimist and a socialist. Verne was an optimist and a lover of liberty. And I think that your political views are going to have a big influence on how you feel about each of these two authors. Of course there is nothing wrong with using fiction as a medium for discussing political ideas. It's just that when I read a book such as THE TIME MACHINE, I can't help but noticing how flawed Wells's view of society is. If only Wells were alive today so he could witness the millions of poor people who flee from socialist countries and move to the capitalist USA because they are seeking a better quality of life. I wonder what kinds of books Wells would be writing today if he were alive to see this.
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Summary: Classic time travel
Review: H. G. Wells was the first to write about quite a few of the standard science fiction themes, discounting books such as _Gulliver's Travels_ which were written before the genre was really established. This book, obviously, is the original time travel story. I read it as a young teenager when I went through most of Wells' work but I still remember the main points. The main character builds a time machine and travels tens of thousands of years into the future, at least. There he finds that the human race has evolved into two distinct groups. There's a surface dwelling race which appears to be living in a carefree utopia, but after dark they hide from the underground, predatory group. I only gave this book four stars because the book didn't strike me strongly enough for me to remember the plot or details vividly. In contrast, Wells' _War of the Worlds_ still stays with me in broad outline, including the ending.
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Summary: Interesting but dissapointing
Review: While this was a rather interesting book, it was disappointing. Not enough happened.
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Summary: The Time Machine
Review: I think that "The Time Machine" was a great book. It left me hanging off the edge of my seat. I like the book because the Main Character risked his life to prove a theory about time.It was very exciting and I would recommend this book to a friend. The suspence in seeing if the time traveler would ever get home was breath-taking. If anyone who likes science fiction will love "The Time Machine" By H.G. Wells.
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Summary: The Time Machine
Review: I think this book was an excellant book. I liked it because one of the main characters risked his life so many times to prove a theory. I would recommend this book to a friend. one reason is because the time traveler had to get home if he could.I beleive that whoever likes Sciencefiction books will love this book as a favorite.
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Summary: Blast into the Future
Review: The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells is a classic science fiction/fantasy novel. It is based in England around the late 1800's and also thousands of years into the future. It is an epic tale of a journey through time. Every one of the Time Traveler's friends and colleagues doubted him. They didn't believe that he had gone into the future. But he did. He visited a gentle breed called the Eloi. They were all alike. They dressed the same, walked the same, looked the same, and even reacted to life's conflicts in the same way. These identical "people" served him gratefully, giving him all the fruit he could ever want. He tried to learn the Eloi language, but their short attention spans caused him to not learn very much. The Time Traveler began to dream as to why this race of people was so alike. He couldn't figure it out. He decided that he had found himself in a utopian society, where neither reason nor strength was needed. He didn't find the real reason out, until he had discovered his time machine to be missing. Night fell and all he could do was search. When he found it he also discovered a horrifying secret about the reason as to why the Eloi were so perfect. It was a terrible secret, one that you will only know if you read this book. Believe me, it's quite a twist. All in all, I would have to recommend this book to anyone. It has elements of every genre in it: horror, science fiction, fantasy, drama, and comedy. It is just a really well rounded book that all can enjoy.
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Summary: Time Machine
Review: It was a great book, but the plot and the setting was a little bit hard to understand. I would recommend this book to young adults only due to shortness of it. The vocabulary was a bit complicated but overall it was a pretty good book. When the Time traveler stepped out of his time machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700 and everything has changed, as he knows it. In another more different age, creatures seemed to come together in perfect harmony. The Time traveler thought he could study these marvelous people find out the secret of the future and then return to his own time, until he discovered that his invention, his only way to escape, had been stolen. So the Time traveler has to recapture his time machine in order to return to his own time, but it is not an easy task because he soon finds out that the people are being control and he would have to get by these Morlocks in order to go back to his own time.
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Summary: My Review
Review: In this book, the fact that the future that the The Time Traveler goes to is mostly like the world he actually lives in is fascinating. The Elois are very childish and ignorant, so the Morlocks are able to walk all over, and take advantage of them. Some places in the world today are like this. One specific group is inferior to another, simply because their kindness is mistaken for weakness. The future in the book is also different from the future that is reality, because there is some cannibalism in the story, and the Morlocks being big, hairy creatures who live under ground. The similarities and differences in this book are what make thhis book unique. It gives the reader many different interpritations, and ways they can look at the story. H.G. Wells, being a socialist was trying to caution us, that if Capitalism keeps on, we might turn into a world, such as the land in the story.
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