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adventurous challenging mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This hasn't aged well
adventurous dark reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

The more I read of Wells, the more I really enjoy his style and creativity. Especially with The Time Machine, and the look into the future of humanity... consumed of course, from my perspective decades after Wells envisioned it.

The world's reality was so different in his time, far before the rapid and destructive industrialization we know of today. Without the knowledge of what technology was to come, with its modern computers, casual aviation, and advanced understanding of genetics and evolution, of course those men of science wouldn't know to conceptualize a Cyberpunk, a 1984, or a Brave New World as humanity's future.

I want to read more Wells, but I'm not sure where to go from here. I think I'll divert for a time to Verne, and pick Wells back up when I've looked into his works more.

Enjoyable adventure. Everybody needs one of those from time to time.

A masterpiece of time

Reading the original for the first time made me realised how beautiful and exotic the future H.G. Wells's Time Traveler went to.

Definitely a very advanced picture of the future from the time he wrote this masterpiece. He might as well have actually met the Time Traveler as he had described in his book, and maybe he did!

Such wild, yet might very well be a prediction, imagination of the future. Descriptive but still left enough room for the reader's imagination. A true masterpiece, of time!
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Preferred it to War of the Worlds. Wish it had been a bit longer and more developed, but was interesting to read Wells' 1931 preface which explains why it was rushed to print in this form instead of becoming a proper length novel.