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The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance
by H.G. Wells
"When I hit his cuff," said Cuss, "I tell you, it felt exactly like hitting an arm. And there wasn't an arm! There wasn't the ghost of an arm!''
H.G. Wells is without a doubt one of the most influential authors of all time, namely in the sci-fi and horror genres, more of the former than the latter. With that in mind, I found The Invisible Man to be the most dull and boring book from Wells that I have read so far. I didn’t connect with any characters, the narrator shifts confused me, and I never saw an end goal or a set target that the book would wind up in, each chapter kind of flowed into the next without any remark or celebration. By the end of the book, I wasn’t really sure what I should have taken away from it or what the point of the journey was. If it was to scare me, it didn’t succeed. If it was to spark some scientific interest in invisibility, it failed in that, too. This was a brilliant idea that is so sadly poorly executed, and I feel that Wells has achieved this many times in his bibliography, unfortunately. Overall, not too impressed, wouldn’t really recommend.
H.G. Wells is without a doubt one of the most influential authors of all time, namely in the sci-fi and horror genres, more of the former than the latter. With that in mind, I found The Invisible Man to be the most dull and boring book from Wells that I have read so far. I didn’t connect with any characters, the narrator shifts confused me, and I never saw an end goal or a set target that the book would wind up in, each chapter kind of flowed into the next without any remark or celebration. By the end of the book, I wasn’t really sure what I should have taken away from it or what the point of the journey was. If it was to scare me, it didn’t succeed. If it was to spark some scientific interest in invisibility, it failed in that, too. This was a brilliant idea that is so sadly poorly executed, and I feel that Wells has achieved this many times in his bibliography, unfortunately. Overall, not too impressed, wouldn’t really recommend.