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bookishgoblin's review
3.0
The two stories - The Door in the Wall & A Slip under the Microscope - were actually pretty fun, short reads, but unfortunately not nearly as well written or as mind blowing as The Time Machine. Sorry Wells <3
neekah's review
3.0
I preferred the door story to the slip one; the latter felt like something was missing. Although I have to admit I expected a scifi angle to it, so I'm biased.
rukmini's review
3.0
"Of one fact about professed atheists I am convinced; they may be - they usually are - fools, void of subtlety, revilers of holy institutions, brutal speakers, and mischievous knaves, but they lie with difficulty. If it were not so, if they had the faintest grasp of the idea of compromise, they would simply be liberal churchmen."
hjung's review
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
obscuredbyclouds's review
3.0
Two short stories by Wells, neither really Science Fiction but both with a dream-like quality to them. I preferred "The Door in The Wall", and didn't fully understand the second one. I once read "The Invisible Man" ages ago, but I'm curious now to read more by him.
curiously_curious's review
5.0
What an absolute masterpiece of fantastic writing. Its something you cannot put down. A slip under the microscope, what a fantastic piece of writing. "Memories are not dead things, but alive; they dwindle in disuse, but they harden and develop in all sorts of queer ways if they are being continually fretted." What a charming way to put something we all experience daily. Memories, those things we constantly tinker with, which do harden when we go over and over the many things we do in our life. This is about life, about us, about you. It's about what we all go through our regrets. Mr Hill, a character after everyone's heart, a poor boy who worked himself up and joined the ranks of Cambridge, stuck against the likes of the Wetherbes of this world.
Mr Hill, you honest man. It's quite sure Wetherbes cheated again, but the rich cheat and lie and the poor don't cheat and own up. That's why ones one and the others the other.
Mr Hill, you honest man. It's quite sure Wetherbes cheated again, but the rich cheat and lie and the poor don't cheat and own up. That's why ones one and the others the other.