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A review by aundie27
The Time Machine by Dobbs, Mathieu Moreau, H.G. Wells
2.0
Plot
The Time Traveler has figured out time travel, as his nickname suggests. He holds round table sessions with intellectual men in town and discusses his scientific findings. The narrator is most intrigued, and shows up regularly to hear what their host has to share. When the host shows up late and bedraggled during a dinner, they are left to believe he's pulling their leg when he begins a 3,472 page monologue about his travels to 800,000 years into the future. He finds strange peaceful beings, and pale underground dark-dwelling monsters. There's a museum that somehow still has artifacts from his time, though dinosaur bones still exist, so it could be feasible. Then he travels even further into the future until everything has died out and become so bleak that there's unlikely to be an atmosphere, but he's totes fine. Once he's back in his present day, he's decided to go off in his machine and is never heard from again.
Review
I'd never read The Time Machine before, though I'd seen it reproduced in various movies and tv shows in different ways. H.G. Wells certain contributed a lot to science fiction literature, and that's commendable. However, I wasn't a fan of this book. For as short as it was, it seemed to drag interminably.
The first paragraph of this book was probably something that Wells perfected and went through many times, as it had two words that I definitely had to look up and also was rather eloquent. It was also one of the most interesting paragraphs to me. For some reason I had it in my head that the Time Traveler went back in time, not 800,000 years into the future. His idea of the future is interesting, but I didn't understand his strange father/lover interest in the female child-like creature. Perhaps it was the need to protect her that blurred the lines. I suppose I did like when he kept going further and further into the future--that I know I've seen on Futurama. The sea creatures were also interesting.
Gorgeous copy from Owlcrate , February 2016.
The Time Traveler has figured out time travel, as his nickname suggests. He holds round table sessions with intellectual men in town and discusses his scientific findings. The narrator is most intrigued, and shows up regularly to hear what their host has to share. When the host shows up late and bedraggled during a dinner, they are left to believe he's pulling their leg when he begins a 3,472 page monologue about his travels to 800,000 years into the future. He finds strange peaceful beings, and pale underground dark-dwelling monsters. There's a museum that somehow still has artifacts from his time, though dinosaur bones still exist, so it could be feasible. Then he travels even further into the future until everything has died out and become so bleak that there's unlikely to be an atmosphere, but he's totes fine. Once he's back in his present day, he's decided to go off in his machine and is never heard from again.
Review
I'd never read The Time Machine before, though I'd seen it reproduced in various movies and tv shows in different ways. H.G. Wells certain contributed a lot to science fiction literature, and that's commendable. However, I wasn't a fan of this book. For as short as it was, it seemed to drag interminably.
The first paragraph of this book was probably something that Wells perfected and went through many times, as it had two words that I definitely had to look up and also was rather eloquent. It was also one of the most interesting paragraphs to me. For some reason I had it in my head that the Time Traveler went back in time, not 800,000 years into the future. His idea of the future is interesting, but I didn't understand his strange father/lover interest in the female child-like creature. Perhaps it was the need to protect her that blurred the lines. I suppose I did like when he kept going further and further into the future--that I know I've seen on Futurama. The sea creatures were also interesting.
Gorgeous copy from Owlcrate , February 2016.