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bookmage's review
2.0
It wasn't anything like I thought it was going to be. The future world was kind of dumb, and it was just like all those utopia/dystopia stories writers were getting into during that time period. I'm kind of sad I didn't like this.
burnsbooks's review
3.0
I really enjoyed the narrative and the writing style. This is a fun adventure story at its heart. My main complaint is with Wells' classist, racist, and sexist remarks. There pressence seems to be to aid leftist themes in the book which is quite interesting but they feel limited by the language of the time and possible latent mysogeny and pregudice held by the writer.
missymay's review
5.0
After reading this book, I can see why it's a classic. It definitely stands out on its own due to the imagination of what the future would be like. The last line of the book just really brings it all together. It gives it all a sense of completeness and wholeness. Ill let you find out what the last line is for yourself :)
annyway47's review
3.0
"The Time Machine" has probably preceded it's time. I'm guessing it laid the foundation for sci-fi, time-travelling and speculative/dystopian literature. And it's beautifully written.
Still, the book left me entirely unimpressed. What may have been awesome in 1895 is no longer as deep or soul-grabbing in 2017. These ideas have been further developed after Wells, and he seems primitive, naive even, in comparison.
Still, the book left me entirely unimpressed. What may have been awesome in 1895 is no longer as deep or soul-grabbing in 2017. These ideas have been further developed after Wells, and he seems primitive, naive even, in comparison.
dachi25's review
5.0
This is a classic I hadn't read, I watched one movie adaptation (I belive from the early 2000s it was good) so I knew the gist of it, or so I thought because this book is actually pretty smart, and it's spooky how it predicts the future. Well, more like it warns us of the evil of class estratification and of the gap in wealth and privilege (also this book takes the 'eat the rich' to a whole new level xD) and that’s always nice on any book. Really short read but still so worth it.
camilleisreading's review
3.0
I may have read this before...? But not really memorable if I did .
Audio. Loved the narrator
Audio. Loved the narrator
missybblio's review
5.0
In the year 802,701 humanity has split into two separate species. One has become the predator, and one the prey.
With an insight and imagination that seems truly ahead of his time, H. G. Wells imagines a future where the separation between the working class and the upper class has taken (what he sees as) the natural path of becoming so extreme as to drive the working class underground. In the Time Travelers (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) reality, this separation between human classes for the past 800,000 years or so caused the human species to evolve into two separate mammals, with the once lower class now preying on the week and feeble upper class. The Time Traveler then goes on to visit the earth at the very end of its life cycle, and to describe the types of creatures living in this wasteland.
Taken at face value, this is an amazingly creative piece of science fiction. It is made better by the lack of hard to imagine futuristic machinery which I feel takes from the reliability of some science fiction. Then take into consideration this book was published a mere 40 (ish) years after Darwin published his theory On the Origin of Species, and you have a piece of fiction and imagination that seems very ahead of its time. This would be a must read for any sci-fi buff.
With an insight and imagination that seems truly ahead of his time, H. G. Wells imagines a future where the separation between the working class and the upper class has taken (what he sees as) the natural path of becoming so extreme as to drive the working class underground. In the Time Travelers (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) reality, this separation between human classes for the past 800,000 years or so caused the human species to evolve into two separate mammals, with the once lower class now preying on the week and feeble upper class. The Time Traveler then goes on to visit the earth at the very end of its life cycle, and to describe the types of creatures living in this wasteland.
Taken at face value, this is an amazingly creative piece of science fiction. It is made better by the lack of hard to imagine futuristic machinery which I feel takes from the reliability of some science fiction. Then take into consideration this book was published a mere 40 (ish) years after Darwin published his theory On the Origin of Species, and you have a piece of fiction and imagination that seems very ahead of its time. This would be a must read for any sci-fi buff.