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Summary: mega review for The Time Machine by Luke Merlini
Review: The time machine is a story written by H.G Well. it is a thoughtful story about the future. The story takes place in the 1880's with a man known as the time traveler. He is a scientist who invents a machine, which allows him to travel through time. The time traveler, very doubtfully, saddles the machine one-day and takes a trip in to the great beyond. The time traveler goes forward 800,000 years into the future. When he gets there he finds that the human race has turned in to two very different creatures. Some live on the surface, they are small, soft looking baby like creatures who love to have fun and eat. The traveler is very confused about what happened. The other people are hunched over and hairy, they also have large glowing yellow eyes. These people live under ground in the old sewer tunnels. There is a constant battle between the top world and the under world people and the scientist in the middle.when I read this book it was very enjoyable for me. I liked the way it was written and i also liked that the book was a perdiction about the futuer also from the authors point of view since the book was written a very long time ago.
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Summary: The time machine
Review: I read The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. I thought it was a great book, because theres always something exciting going on throughout the book.In this book there is a man who's name they never really give through the the book, but instead just call him the time traveler. In the book the time traveler goes into the future were he discoveres that man has evolved into two different species. one species was small,cute,and strictly not nocturnal and all of them were vegitarians who slept together in large buildings. Also there is an uglier more resourceful creatures that only came out at night and ate the other prettier species.These uglier creatures were called "Morlocks". Through the book the time traveler tries to communicate with the prettier species until one day he saves one of the daytime creatures from drowning, this creature becomes attached to him and becomes like a guide for him after the morlocks stole his time machine. The traveler then traveled to a large museum were he found matches and other burning chemicals to fend off the carnivorouse does he get back his time machine? Does He survive?
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Summary: Natures Laws Deal a Backhand to Segregation
Review: The Time Machine is about a person who builds a time machine and portals himself through a dizzying time warp far into the future, seeing along his journey the rapid transformation of humankind. Once arrived at this mysterious, foreign destination the Time Traveler comes accross a vastly transformed world. He makes good company with a shy, caressing young Eloi and takes part in the relaxing luxuries of their civilization. However, once his Time Machine gets stolen he uncovers the deep-seated exploitation of this society.
Another race of humans, the Morlocks, has been set to do the dirty work (sound familiar - 3rd World Countries during globalization) of manufacturing and economic stabilizing. However, they have adapted to their dehumanizing, stratified, controlled lifestyle and have set out to unleash their vengeance upon their captors through nightly "inspections".
This society and the many themes of social stratification, economic disparity, human control, playing "God", and human evolution/devolution toward a utopia/dystopia are central themes of this Verne classic. Very simply written, but very far ahead of it's time for the themes it covered especially considering it was just in the wake of Darwin's Theory of Evolution and Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity of the space-time continuum (first couple of pages address the dimension of time philosophically), Verne the visionary penned a classic. Truly a forebearer of the fundamental aspects of great sci-fi writing.
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Summary: A GREAT CLASSIC
Review: Published in 1895, The Time Machine was one of the first scientific thrillers in our language. It was H.G. Wells' first major work, and was praised both publicly and critically. It has gained a strong following, and its popularity has never abated. The story focuses around an unnamed scientist, known as The Time Traveler, who creates a machine, which takes him hundreds of thousands of years into the future. In the future, what he finds is an unexpected disturbing society, consisting of "Eloi" and "Morlocks." The "Eloi" are childlike creatures, all identical. The "Morlocks" are hideous beasts, living underground in a system of tunnels. The Time Machine is a great novel, filled with a few unexpected twists, and turns. H.G. Wells is a fine writer and his talent is shown in this work. He is so descriptive in every sentence, and his description of the creatures of the future is fantastic: "He was a slight creature - perhaps four feet tall - clad in a purple tunic, girdled at the waist with a leather belt. Sandals or buskins - I could not clearly distinguish which - were on his feet; his legs were bare to the knees, and his head was bare." "He struck me as being a very beautiful and graceful creature, but indescribably frail. His flushed face reminded me of the more beautiful kind of consumptive - that hectic beauty of which we used to hear so much. At the sight of him I suddenly regained confidence." Throughout the story I had a distinct image of the creature in my head, along with many others, due to the authors great choice of words. He also perfectly structures his sentences. He gets as much he can into each sentences without being overly descriptive, and boring: "As I walked I was watchful for every impression that could possible help to explain the condition of ruinous splendor in which I found the world - for ruinous it was." The Time Machine is a classic. However, some things in the novel I didn't enjoy. For one, the story is sometimes slightly boring. Another thing that I thought hurt the novel is that the main adventure of the novel is told in as a narrative, with the "Time Traveler" telling his story to other guests. I think the book could have been more exciting, and suspenseful, had it been happening right then and there. But besides those two minor problems the book is great. H.G. Wells' vision of the future is different than any others. In The Time Machine the creatures of the future are not at all intelligent, which is completely opposite of what I expected. The Time Machine is a highly interesting novel that I recommend to fans of the author, and fans of sci-fi thrillers. However, if you don't want to think, and want an easy reading, this, although short, is not the right choice for you: "Filby became pensive. 'Clearly,' the Time Traveler proceeded, any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and - Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact. There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of space, and a fourth, Time. There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives." With this novel H.G. Wells gained popularity, and rightfully so. The Time Machine is a classic, which will not be forgotten any time soon. "And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of a man."
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Summary: The Time Machine
Review: The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
Science Fiction The Time Machine is the story of The Time Traveler. The Time Traveler built a time machine and traveled through time to the far future. He traveled to the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One, and discovered a very strange and different world. I liked "The Time Machine." Another book I have read by H.G. Wells is "The War of the Worlds" "The Time Machine" was a quiker read that I found more enjoyable than "The War of the Worlds." I thought that "The War of the Worlds" was to long and had to much description. "The Time Machine" was shorter and always exciting. I think that "The Time Machine" was a good book. I would reccomend it to most people. H.G. Wells wrote about interesting subjects and the stories and events that occured in his writing were original and interesting. H.G. Wells wrote about an interesting view on the future of the Earth and of Humanity.
"Have you ever thought about traveling to the distant future? Visiting your great-great-grand children? Or your own town, one hundred--two hundred--years from now? We have all dreamed about traveling through time. But imagine a time when no one had ever thought about it. Imagine no one had ever even talked about a time machine. For us the idea is perfectly normal, even if we know that a time machine is impossible. Imagine being the first person to dream up the idea of a time machhien that could travel through time like a boat over water or a plane through the air. If you could, than you could imagine being H.G. Wells." "The Time Machine" does not have many, if any drawbacks. It is a little discriptive and slow at some points, but is usually action packed and exciting.
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Summary: A full-cast dramatization of Wells' classic story
Review: The St. Charles Players provide a full-cast dramatization of Wells' classic story of a time machine which travels to an unusual, alien future. The result brings alive a story which has received much print coverage and some single narrations, but without the high drama of this presentation.
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Summary: Feast for the mind's eye
Review: With its images of pink forrests and dying suns, The Time Machine by science fiction pioneer, H.G. Wells, is a tale from the very brinks of the imagination. Wells' nameless physicist is a scientific genius who built a machine capable of making him a nomad in time. When a trial run sends the time traveler more than one hundred thousand years in the future, he finds himself in an unindustrialized, tropical climate surrounded by odd vegetation, magnificent and mysterious citadels, a race of childlike humanoids called the "Eloi" and a frightening, subterranean apish race called "Morlocks." The timetraveler surveys his surroundings, attempting to discover whatever happened to humanity. Although the prose is somewhat dated and unsophisticated, the Time Machine is a true original of speculative fiction and a fantastic stimulator of the mind's eye.
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: This book includes many great adventures. The Time Traveler encounters many problems on his journey into the fututre. The main problem the gallant man faces is when he arrives on this strange island. The people he meets do not speak a word of English. The Time Traveler tries everyday to teach them his language as well as he tries to learn their's. While he is on this strange land he begins to explore. He finds many strange tunnels that lead to the underground. He soon finds out that Warlocks live in these tunnels on the land. The time Traveler does not want to hang around and be a Warlocks lunch. He returns to his time machine and goes back to the present. When he returns he staggers in the room and starts this story.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: "The Time Machine," by H. G. Wells is a brilliant and entertaining novel about a scientist who invents a time machine and travels hundreds of thousands of years into the future. There he finds the Eloi, a group of people who live in peace and harmony. The Time Traveller is curious about the people who do not grow old or work, yet have everything they need. He wants to learn more about the Eloi, but someone has stolen his time machine. While searching for his time machine, the Time Traveller discovers a group of hideous underground creatures called the Morlocks. He learns the Morlocks have been providing everything for the Eloi who has lost all ambition and curiosity. The Eloi's passivity have made it possible for the Morlocks to take the adult Eloi underground and make them their slaves. I highly recommend this book of adventure and science fiction. H. G. Wells is a genius.
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Summary: I saw the movie first. The book difference was a surprise.
Review: I grew up on the Rod Taylor /George Pal movie ASIN: 0790747324 (see my review November 26, 2000). When I started the book I expected it to be slightly different with a tad more complexity as with most book/movie relationships. I was surprised to find the reason for the breakup of species (Morlock and Eloi) was class Vs atomic (in later movie versions it was political). I could live with that but to find that some little pink thing replaced Yvette Mimieux was too munch. After al the surprises we can look at the story as unique in its time yet the message is timeless. The writing and timing could not have been better. And the ending was certainly appropriate for the world that he describes. Possibly if the story were written today the species division would be based on eugenics
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