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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
medium-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
A scientist has mad a time machine. He tells his dinner guests what he found in the future. I liked this better than the single other book by H. G. Wells that I've read (The War of the Worlds). But like that other book I think it would have interested me a lot more if I had better knowledge of its cultural and litterary context. Said another way, H. G. Wells was exceptional in his time and has since been largely overtaken. This make his books most interesting as a reflexion of how people thought in his time, about the future, about science.
The premise of what happened to humans in the future is obviously unrealistic, which makes it weaker and less interesting than it could have been (divergences of that magnitude could only really have happened if humans were put in different and mutually inaccessible environments), but it is an interesting thought experiment. There is some unpleasant talk about "savages", a single female character that is even worse than the average femal characters in adventure books from the 1800s tend to be, and the main character is an arrogant, unpleasant man who I'm fairly certain isn't meant to be. I found some parts of this to be genuinly interesting and other parts to be genuinely creepy (a good thing).
Read this if you like others H. G. Wells, I suppose, or if you are passionate about the history of sci-fi as a genre.
The premise of what happened to humans in the future is obviously unrealistic, which makes it weaker and less interesting than it could have been (divergences of that magnitude could only really have happened if humans were put in different and mutually inaccessible environments), but it is an interesting thought experiment. There is some unpleasant talk about "savages", a single female character that is even worse than the average femal characters in adventure books from the 1800s tend to be, and the main character is an arrogant, unpleasant man who I'm fairly certain isn't meant to be. I found some parts of this to be genuinly interesting and other parts to be genuinely creepy (a good thing).
Read this if you like others H. G. Wells, I suppose, or if you are passionate about the history of sci-fi as a genre.
adventurous
medium-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
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
An absolute classic, And a must read.
Not what I was expecting at all but an interesting book and view into what HG Well's idea of where the future of the world is
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
adventurous
mysterious
medium-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
I was intending to read the entire book and I finished The Time Machine, but I struggles a bit with Wells' more descriptive writing style so I unfortunately had to DNF after only The Time Machine.
Proponents of atavism, entropy at work, leaving the ruins of a dead culture. It remains for us to live as though it were not so.
Conrad told R. B. Cunninghame: ‘If you believe in improvement you must weep, for the attained perfection must end in cold, darkness and silence.’
Conrad told R. B. Cunninghame: ‘If you believe in improvement you must weep, for the attained perfection must end in cold, darkness and silence.’
challenging
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