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Summary: My personal Opinion
Review: The I.M.by H.G.Wells isn't a standar sci/fihorror book.He wrote in a different era of time,and used a different style that what youmigth noexpect. This book has benn wrote in the 18's,for this time wells does a masterful job by presenting each characters with their own style.The story begins on England.The I.M.man appears in a small village in England,called Iping.The I.M.present himself wearing bandages around all of his features to hide his invisibility.After he stays at a local inn,the I.M.begins to star his experiments all over againg,trying to found the way back to be visible.The people of the town were curius about what could be the reason,that griffin wears all those bandages.Mrs.hall who rented a room to griffin begins to senn odd situacions where him was envolp.Soon the man's secret us uncovered by the suspicious towns peolpe After a wild getaway sequencce,the I.M.must escape the angry people of iping.This novel take more atencion when the i.m.met his oldfriend dr.kemp After he told kemp how he got invisible heasked for help.Kemp promes to help him and try to found the way back to be invisible.But,kemp betrayed griffin for his own good,because he realize that griffin is a dangerous person who has benn killed several persons.finnaly,one element that caught my my attention was care should be taken so that valuable informationshouldn't be used for evil.
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Summary: The Invisible Man
Review: The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells was a good book. I enjoyed it most because the plot was great and it was suspenseful; I could not stop reading the book. The Invisible Man is about a scientist named Griffin whose goal was to becomes invisible. He quickly learns many of the disadvantages to being invisible. I found a great deal of meaning in this book including power could lead to a deadly downfall. I wanted to read this book because I have read The Time Machine, also by H. G. Wells. I liked reading that book and The Invisible Man turned out to be just good. This book was quite easy to read and the content was not very difficult. If you enjoy science fiction books, you will enjoy reading this book.
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Summary: The More Things Change...
Review: The Invisible Man is a short, well-plotted story of a scientist who made an experiment without considering the consequences of his work. Although it was written in the late 19th century, it still speaks to readers in this current age of technology. Each day we reap the benefits and suffer the consequences of our cleverness. Like King Midas, Griffin found his dream was really a nightmare.At the same time we see a portrait of a violent man, a man who could not love himself and,thus, could not love others. This too, perhaps, has relevance in this age of high school shootings and other random acts of rage.
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Summary: Not nearly as good as I thought it would be...
Review: The Invisible Man, granted, was written in a completely different era, maybe that is why I really did not enjoy it, or maybe it was the fact that it was just pointless. This book was basically about trying to find the Invisible Man. I cannot think of something in this book that intrigued me really in any way. I would NOT recommend this book!
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Summary: Terror Unseen !
Review: This book had me on the side of the Invisible Man for most of the book. Its hard not to root for something that more than once in our lives we have all imagined. The problem with rooting for the Invisible Man is that Wells writes of him as being an insane, out-of-control pychopath so you teeter back and forth with wondering if its the right thing to do. This is the second book of H.G.Wells that I have read, the first being The War Of The Worlds, and I enjoyed this one more.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book was astonishing to me because it's not a traditional science fiction novel. It's a novella. Making it easier to follow the actually complex plot. This is not a mad scientist story. It is about a young, immature, and brilliant chemist who saw only the benifits and none of the drawbacks. This book makes you take a second look at a lot of your fantasies.
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Summary: Good story, dark
Review: This book was much different then I had expected it to be. The invisible man is a dark and somewhat angry story. It was also very fascinating to see it unfold. Don't let the movies tell you about the invisible man, read the original!
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Summary: A Very Successful Melding of Sci-Fi and Horror
Review: This is a very good book, and as another reviewer has stated, Wells gets the most out of his words, an astonishing amount of detail and plot is put into what is really a rather short story. One of the great things about this book is that Wells takes a seemingly impossible task (making humans invisible) and makes it seem possible. After we find out a lot about Griffin we learn about his adventures and difficulties as the invisible man. The main themes of the book seem to be the horrors that would abound if a major discovery was found by an evil person before a person who would use it for good causes. Also, it is a definite attack on egos and narcissism, as most of Griffin's terrible acts were spurred on by his needs and his disregard for others.
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Summary: There is no democratic control of science
Review: This novel can be understood at several levels and each one is fundamental and excellent. First, the crazy scientist. A young physicist discovers the secret of invisibility. He implements it on himself and the situation in which he projects himself makes him absolutely crazy and his only objective becomes the desire to dominate the world in a reign of terror. New inventions change the relation between science and the world, between scientists and society, and produce a complete unbalance by projecting the inventors into some unknown land for which they are not prepared. They become crazy. Here Wells seems to advocate a socially-integrated science, a science that answers demands or orders or needs duly expressed by society. Second, the desire to discover new territories. There is no science if the desire to go beyond any known limits is not implemented, no matter what the consequences may be. The quest for this new knowledge has to come from one mind and has to be encouraged no matter what. But the danger we have already seen leads Wells to the conclusion that such quests must not be solitary and have to be shared among scientists. Hence the scientific community must encourage such research. Here Wells criticizes the scientific community : some try to plunder the research of young scientists for their own glory and interest ; some refuse any innovation that would disturb the social balance from which they draw their prestige and income ; some are even more negative and refuse any innovation because it disturbs some « established » truth. This condemns these young scientists to isolation or alienation. Third, modern society is severely criticized, and here Wells becomes very ironical. Some scenes are funny like the invasion of the department store by the invisible man. Wells takes an obvious pleasure in describing the puzzled reactions of individuals who are confronted to this invisible man. But Wells also becomes very critical at this moment and shows how society defends itself by becoming a military body of man-hunters. They do not try to negociate the integration or re-integration of the mad scientist. They just aim at mobilizing people into a vast hunt that has only one objective : to kill. Society is ready to kill any one who may disturb their social order just to eliminate the disturbing element and go back to the established normal order of things. In other words Wells shows us a deeply conservative society. In other words he is from his own age. Today science and technology are moving things at a tremendous speed without the possibility for any one to stop it. But Wells had seen something absolutely fundamental : change produces conservatism, or even extreme reactionary attitudes that can lead to fundamentalism and the total exclusion of groups that are seen then as scapegoats. Wells had foreseen the rise of fascism, nazism, and any other ideology that leads to the exclusion of one group of people, be they those who supposedly slow down change, or be they those who supposedly impose their version of this change. For Wells there seems to be no democratic way to manage change and scientific progress. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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Summary: An Imposible story.
Review: This Scientific novel in spite of the fact of being very emotional from the beginning to the end is based on impossible realism, because a human being needs red corpuscle (red blood cells) to subsist. Without a doubt the good coordination and imagination of the writer transports the reader to a false reality that could see through in suspense and curiosity. The narrative capacity of Wells, The characterization of the actors in time, place and space give this novel a high rating for this type of scientific novels. Even though this novel was written more than one hundred years ago (1897) is consider a classic in science fiction. This novel also has a lesson for the present generation for which consequences should be measured and the possible results before making experiments with the unknown.
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