The Time Machine

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Summary: A real cool book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: The Time Machine is an outstanding book. Everybody should read this book. Especially the people who like sci-fic, adventures, and futuristic. This book can be read by all ages. Old, or young. So come on people read this excellent book by Mr. Wells!!

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Summary: Total oblivion of the Future
Review: The time traveler{Scientist}works in his lab on a time Machine. When the time machine is completed he asks a doctor, and a writer, with a few other professions and talks to them about it and how he made it. Well, of course they don't beleive it, but before he has dinner with these fine people he decides to take a test drive to the year 180,240,001, and there he finds things very bizarre, so bizzare that our whole humanity is changed into creatures you would never believe, the Eloi's and the Morlock's, one afraid of the dark, one afraid of the light!

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Summary: I thought it was cool!!!!!!!
Review: It was pretty interesting. The most interesting part was when the warlocks caught on fire. I recommend this book for seven year olds up to ten year olds. If the time traveler got stuck in the warlock's homes and they killed him and Ween ran and told her friends what happened then I think it would be a five star book.

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Summary: Truly a Classic!
Review: OK, we've all seen at least one of the movie versions of H.G. Well's The Time Machine, but none of them truly compare with the oringinal Sci-Fi classic. The book tells the story of the Time Traveler's journey nearly a million years into the future and the very unexpected and disturbing society he finds there. The Time Traveler formulates various theories based on what he observes of the society, which each, in turn, prove to be oh, so wrong! [Warning: mild spoiler] In the end, his realization of the future is especially terrifying considering it is the result of our current social structure (or H.G. Well's, anyway).

I especially recommend this book for those of us with short attention spans - it's only 140 pages (and that's the large print version). But don't get the wrong idea, this book still has more depth and creativity than most 500 page books i've read and is a great read, even compared with today's science fiction standards.

This book has to be considered a classic considering it spawned a whole genre of time traveling books, movies, and tv shows whcih imitated it. Get a hold of a copy and read it today!

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Summary: Original, exciting and very entertaining
Review: After reading The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, my immediate thought was that it was an idea ahead of its time because every movie that was ever made about time travel, was based on this book. Not only was the story incredible, but was also extremely well written and descriptive. All these qualities contributed to a book that I thoroughly enjoyed and now I understand why it is called a 'classic.'

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Summary: [e-mail] is right on!
Review: The alien voices tape is indeed excellent. I, too, am looking forward to more alien voices tapes. Especially since I am a Star Trek fan.

However, the Time Machine, in my opinion, is not one of his better books. It's boring. And the ending is a letdown. He could have done a better job showing what might happen if the gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots" keeps on increasing (which is what the book is about--all of Wells' books are satirical commentaries on European society)

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Summary: The best the storys been told!
Review: My first taste of Alien Voices has left me hungry for more. Having read the book (The Time Machine) and seen the movie, Alien Voices presentation sent chills down my spine! Leonard Nimoy and John DeLancie are masters of Science Fiction. I look foward to hearing the rest of the Alien Voices series and am purchasing my next one NOW!

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Summary: a great book from an acclaimed sci-fi auther
Review: H.G. Wells have once again marveled me with this elaborated novel of the future of mankind. Time Machine is a finely elaborated novel of how one man battles his way through the clutches of humanity in the future to return home safely. The book is very detailed, in that it described every event explicitly. I like this book a lot, even though I didn't willingly read it, but was to be read in school. I still enjoyed it, and this fine example of H.G.Wells creativity has tempted me to read his other novels.

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Summary: An old classic gets new life in this stunning performance.
Review: Familiar faces from all four of Star Trek's TV sagas lend their incredible vocal talents to one of the greatest science fiction classics of all time. The story of a time traveler and his horrific tale of life far into the future captivates and enthralls, and is made all the more incredible with the riveting vocal talents of Leonard Nimoy and John De Lancie. This first offering by Nimoy and De Lancie's joint audio venture, ALIEN VOICES, is a delight. I also highly recommend the other performances by Alien Voices - Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's THE LOST WORLD, and another classic tale by the classic H.G. Wells, THE INVISIBLE MAN. I thought all these performances were brilliant, and I eagerly look forward to the next offering from ALIEN VOICES. Don't keep me waiting long!

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Summary: Short and Sweet
Review: I had to read this book for school, but it was very interesting and enjoyable to read.