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Summary: A must read science fiction book
Review: H.G. Wells (the father of science fiction) has written a masterpiece with this novel. Wells and Jules Verne who I consider to be the best science fiction writers to date are extremely similar in their approach, but both write brilliant novels. The Time Machine is not only a book about science fiction. I do believe that Wells' main purpose for writing this book was to comment on the social picture of London in the 1800s. As you will notice if you read this book, Wells goes into detail (though not commenting directly) on how an aristocracy (Eloi) can destroy themselves by becoming complacent and allowing a working class (Morlocks) to do all of the work. The Time Machine is in addition to being a political dissertation a wonderful science fiction/adventure novel as well that you will not want to put down until the end. Do not rent the movie (version with Guy Pearce) though in place of the book - the plot does not mirror the book at all and it is subpar.
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Summary: Why this book is too confusing.
Review: I am a 7th grader who was assigned this book for a school project. I do not like the Time Machine for several reasons: first of all, H.G. Wells writes a bit over a teenager's head. There are many words that are I can't understand. Things are confusing. Second,for someone who doesn't believe in evolution, this book is just not good at all...And last, but certainly not least, this book should not be considered science-fiction. There is no science in this book! I can see how evolution could be considered the science, but the Bible totally disproves that theory. So this book should be considered total fiction.
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Summary: The Time Machine
Review: The book The Time Machine uses a lot imaginative vision into the future. The main character of this book is the Time Traveller and he was experimenting and seeing if he could build a machine that could travel into the future. So as he made plans for the actual model, he made a mini of it. When the mini was done he brought it to one of his meetings with his other friends, and he pushed the lever forward and the mini disappeared. His friends just thought he made the machine go under the table. Then he convinced them that it went into the future. At the next meeting he was very late and he was all dusty and dirty. He told them that he had finished his actual model and traveled into the future. As they should, they believed him and they demanded to tell him what the future was like. As he was telling his story he started to talk about two bizarre races, the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi are human like people and the Morlocks are like apes the hate light. He thinks that the Morlocks have taken his time machine and he has to get it back to go home. Then he meets an Eloi that's name is Weena and she helps the Time Traveller through the future land. This book is very exciting and every chapter just makes you want to read more of the book. You have to read the book to figure out the conclusion, and it's a good one.
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Summary: Still One of the Best
Review: Having recently seen the 2002 film version of "The Time Machine," I decided to pick up the book and get reacquainted with the story. As I suspected/remembered, the film departs greatly from the book (and not for the better). For those who have only seen the film, take the time to read the original story. You'll be glad you did.That story is about the Time Traveller and his journey into the very distant future - to the year 802,701 AD. The Traveller chooses to go out of pure curiosity, hoping to see what the future had in store. What he found seemed like something out of the past. The semi-humans he encountered lived in an era not unlike the Bronze Age, with limited communication skills and little else. These Eloi seemed content to while away their time, without a care in the world - except when it was dark. For at that time the other semi-human species, the Morlocks, emerged from below...with a taste for Eloi. The Time Traveller struggles to understand how mankind could have degenerated into such a state of affairs. His distaste for the Morlocks and their actions (including the theft of his time machine) soon causes the Traveller to confront them, with disastrous consequences for both. Generally accepted as one of the first Science Fiction stories, it is believed Wells was also using the story to advance his criticism of the capitalist system. Specifically, the story relates what happens when one group of people is continually subjugated by another higher, elite class. Wells' tale of the fractured relationship between the Eloi and the Morlocks is his warning of the dangers of allowing such a system to continue unabated. All politics aside, the story remains excellent. Although written more than a century ago, it has lost none of its power or appeal. It is also a short read, at less than 150 pages, and is also very "readable" - despite its age the story does not seem at all antiquated. That Wells was able to accomplish this in the 1890s is no small feat, and is an indication of his prowess as an writer. Five stars.
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Summary: Amazingly fresh.
Review: Things in the science-fiction world haven't moved on much since 1895, with respect to Science Fiction and its love affair with time travel and the paradoxes thereof. I suppose this is because the Time Machine by H. G. Wells is very much a philosophical piece on the nature of man and abstracts to do with multidimensionality, more so than any technology to do with time travel. I was surprised at some of the ideas put forward at the beginning of the book, one of which postulated that time could be a state of mind as much as anything. Something along the lines of Groundhog Day, with only a possible glimmer of memory as indication of what might be happening. A notion given a touch of reinforcement at the end of the book where the Time Traveller finds himself forgetting details of where he's been in the future because of the intrusion of his normal surroundings and associations. The white flowers given to him by Weena, acting as a mnemonic jolt. This is more a novelette, than a novel. Even so, it does tend to get on its soapbox on occasion, instead of keeping a tidier eye on a few odds-and-ends details as would have been more appropriate.
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Summary: The Time Machine
Review: The Time Machine written by Herbert, Gershwood Wells is a book with action, science, and suspense. Which leads to being a science fiction. Main Character of the book was the Time Traveler who is a scientist that is interested in time travel. Once he makes his memorable time machine, he travels to the very distant time of eight hundred million two hundred seven thousand and one. While there he met a perfect human and her name was Weena. Weena is an Elois, which is one of two species of the human raise. The other raise is the blood thirsty Morlocks, which live under the feet of the Elois in the caves. The Morlocks are cannibals that survive off of the Elois. The Time Traveler needs to go back home but he lost his invention to the Morlocks. While there he tries to find the machine in many different areas. Like the Emerald Palace, the forest, and in the den of those little monster's. His largest problem was finding a way to communicate since the Elois have a totally different language. In order for him to get his machine back he must fight the Morlocks. Even thought the Morlocks are small but there very strong. He ends up using a metal pipe for a weapon since there wasn't any other kind of weapon in that era. All of the other parts of the book were good but the best will be unmentioned. The ending was a little out of there if people have seen the two very different movies. But if people haven't seen them the ending will be even more odd. People recommend seeing the older movie instead of the recently made movie. The Time Traveler just wanted to see what was going to happen to the human species in the future. He was definitely in for a ride he wasn't about to forget. H. G. Wells is an author with very detail work and sophisticated words. If someone is interested in scientific words this book is just for them. His other books like "The Invisible Man" is another good book to read.
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Summary: Great Read!
Review: Honestly speaking, I did not expect much out of this novel, and I thought it was going to be a B-rate science fiction story. I am delighted to say I was dead wrong. This book deals not only with the issue of time travel, but also of some uncanny predictions of future society, social stratification, futility of human achievement against the cogworks of time, and of human compassion. I was unable to put the book down to the end, and was filled with delight at the excellent story-telling skill of Wells. It is one of my most favorite books now.
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Summary: The first SF novel I ever read
Review: And I even remember where I encountered in: in a school library
during summer school, between sixth and seventh grade. I saw the title _The Time Machine_ on the shelf, and that was it: I was hooked. Almost 110 years old, and stilll it holds up wonderfully. Indeed, it's a classic. Even today the images stay with me; the Time Traveller sitting on his machine at the end of Earth's life, watching a gigantic red sun swelling the sky, for example. Even though almost ornately-written, it's a short, quick read, very suitable for children. And the movie that was made from it is very good, too.
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Summary: The Time Machine
Review: The time machine had to do with the time traveler who went back in time then he told some people that the time traveler about his journy thruogh time. The time traveler first went back in time and told the people about the people about his journy. Next he talk about how he had lost the time machine how he got it back.
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Summary: A great book
Review: This book is about a man named the Time Traveller who constructs a time machine. With it he ventures hundreds of thousands of years into the future. The future world is covered with plants and flowers. He finds out that man has evolved into the Eloi people and created a small society. By night, he discovers the other side of the Eloi, called the Morlocks. The Morlocks are carnivorous, white, nocturnal apes that operate machinery underground. The Time Traveller goes even further into the future only to find the Earth turned into a gigantic wasteland with giant monsters roaming about. I read this book because I wanted to read other works of H.G. Wells. The Time Machine is a fairly short, but interesting book. I stumbled over some difficult vocabulary words, besides that this book is good overall. I enjoyed reading this book from the very first page to the last. I recommend this book if you are in to science fiction.
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