Reviews

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

leilabp4's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

luckywitch's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective 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

3.0

anastasia_elise_w's review against another edition

3.0

What I understood I liked

bexlrose's review against another edition

2.0

Meh. Seriously don't get the hype, found it really boring. 1.5 stars.

theheartbrekker1's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

philosoph's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

ferlosofo's review against another edition

3.0

Una buen relato breve de uno de los clásicos de la ciencia ficción.

szymek_w_rodawski's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Death

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Racism and Racial slurs

the n-word is used 2 times i think, and i would say one mention a bit racist (it talks about africa as an underdeveloped continent, while africa is way to Diverse to describe it like that) i would probably blame it on the times when it was written

britlaccetti's review against another edition

4.0

At first I was skeptical of reading this. However, I had to read it for my British Literature class. I loved it! I did only give it 4 stars because I felt like it was lacking substance for the part of the very future, or end of the world. I wish Wells would have gone into a little more detail and explain why he thought the end of the world would end the way he described it- evolutionary theory should have been expanded on in my opinion.

Basically The Time Machine is a novel dated in the early 1900's (?). The time traveller builds this time machine and is retelling his story of his traveling to a group of men, or friends. The time traveller goes WAY into the future, so far that humans have kind of lost their intelligence and skip around picking flowers when they aren't busy fighting cannibals. Then the time traveller continues to go into the future to the "end of the world" where the sun has burnt out and the Earth is ruled by a kind of nothingness besides huge butterflies and enormous crabs.

Great book in my opinion, great ideas about social classes and communism and the theory of evolution.

snekmint's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0