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Summary: The father of the time travel story
Review: A Victorian inventor uses the time machine that he has created to visit the far future, where the class divisions of his time have caused the human race to develop into two distinct species. The working class has developed into the Morlocks, who have become physically repulsive creatures of the night yet retain some knowledge of technology. The aristocrats have become the Eloi, attractive yet utterly useless, living like sheep. Without the constraints of economics to protect the elite class, the Morlocks have begun to feed on them literally, just as the upper-class could have been said to feed on the workers figuratively during the Victorian Era. Besides such social commentary, Wells also treats us to a haunting glimpse of the Earth at the end of time, where great crab-like creatures scuttle beside a drying sea under a dying sun. Superior to the vast majority of the time travel sub-genre that this novel spawned.
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Summary: HG Wells is a gifted writer!
Review: HG Wells describes the effects of time speeding up so vividly. He's a writer who can make a reader feel a situation is real. I wish I'd written THE TIME MACHINE...The central character in THE TIME MACHINE, the time traveller badly tries to understand time and wants freedom within it. War has become a problem in his own time and he wants to escape it...
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Summary: A fascinating classic still relevant today
Review: I admit that I didn't see the recent Guy Pearce movie. However, I picked up this book out of curiosity fostered by all of the hype. I was pleasantly surprised by the calm preciseness of the narrative, and the fascinating issues the book raises. I expected more actions or descriptions, but most of the events seemed to be emotional or visceral. (With classics, your level of enjoyment seems to correlate with your level of expectation.) The most fascinating part of the book is when the scientist tells the tale of what he did at the end of his initial journey into the future. This is a must-read for anyone. If you don't like it, it will at least give you some meaty topics to think about in our modern, tumultuous society.
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Summary: The Time Machine
Review: Recently brought to cinemas again by Well's great-grandson Simon Wells, it's pretty obvious why this landmark science fiction tome has been visioned by Hollywood so much. Wells' story starts off with a man known only as the Time Traveller, who tells a group of friends his extraordinary tale of how he went into the distant future with his time machine. Wells weaves his masterful storytelling traditions brilliantly. You can always tell if a book is superior if you can envision the settings, the landscapes, and, to the Hollywood filmmakers, the camera shots. The story consists of the Time Traveller journeying to a distant earth where beings of the surface are haunted by the creatures of the underground world. H.G Wells created a story that has amazed and fascinated readers for years. And like his other incredible book, War of the Worlds (Also a popular Hollywood dipping well), the Time Machine is a shocking vision of what we are as people and what we, as humans will become. This amazing story holds a deserved place in the library of all-time greats. H.G Wells' talent for storytelling is unsurpassed.
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Summary: An Essential Strory in Time-Travel Literature
Review: What makes Wells so enjoyable to read is how pessimistic he is about human nature. When the Time Traveler goes into the future, man has not evolved in a Darwinian sense - he has devolved into the Eloi - the stupid surface-dwellers - and the Morlocks - the monsters that live underground and feed off the Eloi. As the traveler goes far into the future, man eventually shrinks into some kind of rabbit-like creature on a barren planet. Say what you will for him, Wells wasn't a humanist.
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Summary: a darn good book
Review: The Time Machine
by: H.G. Wells This book is about a scientist that has conquered toe "fourth dimension", time! He has spent three years perfecting this art. None of his fellow scientists believe him. They say that it is impossible. When they meet again, they find a note on a desk that says that he had been traveling through time and that he would be there shortly. Three hours later he tells of his adventures through time and how he saw what the future was like. The human race had split. An underground species grows the above ground species to eat like cattle. He is nearly eaten too. This was truly a darn good book.
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Summary: A Classic of literature
Review: What can i say about this book? It's a classic, and that sums everything up. As a young science fiction fan, i couldn't put this book aside and last weekend decided to read it. It was everything i hoped for. A scientist builds a time machine. Why? Because of mere scientific curiosity. I know that's not enough for the modern fans, but putting the book in its historical contet, we go back to a time where the advancements of science were increasing every day, each scientific field being researched. Of course, Time wasn't the exception. The time machine leads the scientist and the reader to a dark, bleak future, where the enthusiasm for knowledge has been exchanged by the pleasures of a dull, easy life withou work or preocupations, an utopia for a small group called the Eloi. But underneath their feet live the Morlocks, a group of cave men who toil for the Eloi and are paid with their meat, for they are cannibals. Wells surely wasn' an optimist regarding the future of our earth, for the time traveller ends his dark journey at the end of earth's existence, no longer inhabitted by men but by gigantic creatures such as crabs and butterflies. Most readers might complain about the lack of characterization, thence my four stars, the weakness of the plot, nowadays very common,and even the lack of scientifical explanations, that makes today's science fiction novels so wonderfully complex. but this was a classic among the classics, that gave birth to so many books... A lot of people owing a lot to H. G. Wells, who never got anything for his unique book.
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Summary: H.G. Wells strikes again--and keeps your mind racing!
Review: Is THE TIME MACHINE a dreadful prediction about how the human race will eventually miss its opportunity to rule the universe and simply slip back into a primeval stupor...or is it a kindly but firm warning shot designed to make us wake up and take charge of our destiny? The great thing about this book is the fact that the reader is trusted to come up with individual answers, but only after H.G. Wells thoroughly frightens us and shakes things up a bit. The ideas in this little book are enormous. Read once every decade for a lifetime, the book is different each time, and its implications change and transmogrify. As if the book itself isn't exciting enough, editor Nicholas Ruddick provides us with enough background material to earn an advanced degree in science and philosophy, should we take time to read and study the full texts of great 19th Century thinkers he has briefly quoted. The amazing thing is, H.G. Wells did read and study all those great thinkers, and in his lifetime wrote more thought-provoking material than Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare combined. Wells' brain was indeed a world brain--one that kept developing right up till the end. And at the end, Wells charges us to continue developing or, he warns, we will perish after a few screams and whimpers, imploding from our own laziness. --Jim Reed, author, DAD'S TWEED COAT: SMALL WISDOMS, HIDDEN COMFORTS, UNEXPECTED JOYS ...
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Summary: A classic
Review: This book is about an inventor from the late 1800's who builds a time machine and travels far into the future. Wells' vision of the future was unique for its day and still is, for the most part. He first encounters a race called the Eloi, who live a perfect life filled with abundance, never wanting food or anything else. Then...well, I won't spoil the surprise. I will, however, warn you that Wells does not go in for thorough descriptions or explanations. The ending of the book leaves many unanswered questions that might be frustrating to some readers.
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Summary: The Time Machine
Review: A book to return to; there is always more there. The first time I read this book I found it dull however recently I re-read it and was surprised that I enjoyed it much more the second time round.It is about a man who creates a time machine and travels ahead in time to what seems like a utopian world. However, not everything is quite as it seems...
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