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Summary: Brings science fiction into the realm of literature
Review: A fascinating book. Wright has a marvelous way with words and his main character is bright and witty if not completely charming. This brings science fiction and literature together in a way that holds the reader on edge until the last page. The writing style remind me much of Arturo Perez-Revertes first two novels and that is praise indeed.
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Summary: An imitation of H.G.Wells
Review: Although I describe this book as an imitation of Wells, I liked the story. The visual image of a London turned into a jungle alone made the book worth reading. The visualization and the desire to know more kept me turning the pages. At times the author gets too metaphoric, but never too cliche. In order to connect to this book I believe you must like futuristic/apocalyptic stories. The author does not get too overwhelmingly "scientific" and I find that a strength. The humans of the 26th century are not very interesting, but the journey was worth it.
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Summary: Ugh
Review: Although the premise is interesting, Wright did not do justice to his own idea. The story is slow-moving and totally unbelievable. It's as if the author knew the outcome of his novel and had to go back and fill in the blanks, regardless of how senseless this makes the story seem. Furthermore, the character's (or is it the author's?) machismo is displayed on about every other page, and this rapidly becomes irritating. I regretted that I had spent the money on this book.
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Summary: Good Concept, Boring Writing
Review: First the concept - A man with an uncurable disease, discovers a time machine created by an associate of H.G. Wells. He decides to go to the future to seek a cure.Unfortunately the writing style to this book was excrutiatingly boring, written in the first person. The narrator (the man with the incurable disease) jumps from concept to concept, without anything interesting to say. There is virtually no action. When he gets to the future, everything is destroyed and you keep waiting for him to encounter people, which never seems to happen. I found H.G. Wells Time Machine to be vastly more interesting and that was written over 100 years ago. Many other readers have given this book very high marks for writing and I wonder how they can? I know I kept finding myself skipping over a lot of paragraphs throughout the book and had to fight with myself to keep from just jumping to the back of the book and reading the end so I could get on with it.
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Summary: Good Concept, Boring Writing
Review: First the concept - A man with an uncurable disease, discovers a time machine created by an associate of H.G. Wells. He decides to go to the future to seek a cure. Unfortunately the writing style to this book was excrutiatingly boring, written in the first person. The narrator (the man with the incurable disease) jumps from concept to concept, without anything interesting to say. There is virtually no action. When he gets to the future, everything is destroyed and you keep waiting for him to encounter people, which never seems to happen. I found H.G. Wells Time Machine to be vastly more interesting and that was written over 100 years ago. Many other readers have given this book very high marks for writing and I wonder how they can? I know I kept finding myself skipping over a lot of paragraphs throughout the book and had to fight with myself to keep from just jumping to the back of the book and reading the end so I could get on with it.
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Summary: After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
Review: For those wanting only wild science fictional action - avoid this book. For those wanting a meditation on life, literature, humanity - this is it. Wright's book starts slowly, and it's main character seems a bit of a whiner. But it quietly grows on you. It's a NY Times Notable Book - although curiously, not a notable science fiction book. One of the year's better novels.
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Summary: a good premise, a good book, could have been even tighter
Review: I certainly wish Wright would write some more novels. He's mostly a travel writer, but has proven with this release that he's capable of a lot. By taking this modern look at HG Wells, he joins the ranks of spec-fic's growing cadre of talented newcomers.
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Summary: Interesting but slow and over-romantic
Review: I liked the idea, the main character and it's adventures. Broken down into two sets, the past love affair, and the present adventures (in the future), it is too divided to appeal as either a romantic or scientific high-flyer. Instead it crawls in boredom and I cought myself skipping paragraph after paragraph.
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Summary: exquisite time travel romance for readers of all genres...
Review: I stumbled on this small masterpiece quite by accident & found it to be a rare find. It is truly a romance per both definitions proffered by the amazon review. The author is masterful in drawing the reader into the book. I felt as if I had travelled in time myself & felt vague unrest when i washed up "back" in the 20th century. I hope the author will loose his time machine again(soon). If you're looking for the usual time travel clap-trap look elsewhere... marvelous meditions on humankind & the milk of human kindness... imagine my surprise when I read that a group was mass distibuting a "jesus video" in which all the actors were native people except for a caucasian actor playing the lead... life imitates art once again... it's all in this wonderful book...highly reommended.
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Summary: An absorbing journey into the future
Review: I was fascinated by this re-casting of The Time Machine. Wright's vision of a tropical England, devoid of humanity, is the most arresting part of the story; the characters themselves are less developed, both in the 20th century and 500 years in the future. I found the ongoing ruminations upon a past friendship and lost love distracting, if literate. Tracking the future, searching in the ruins, the protagonist revisits sites associated with his own story. Scientific Romance projects present trends of overpopulation, disease, and global warming to describe an overgrown, and tragic, outcome. The protagonist uncovers fragmentary evidence as he treks north from London. Ultimately, he encounters human survivors in a remote area of Scotland, poor and unlettered, but still capable of violence.
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