Review of 'The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, Fiction, Classics' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Brilliant.
Paperback
English language
Published June 23, 1967 by Airmont Pub Co.
Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells: Time Machine (Paperback, 1967, Airmont Pub Co)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8049-0044-7
- OCLC Number:
- 427178675
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4 stars
(220 reviews)
The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class. Wells's transparent commentary on the capitalist society was an instant bestseller and launched the time-travel genre.
Thomas Gaffney reviewed The time machine by H. G. Wells (The Modern Library classics)
Review of 'The time machine' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Obviously, The Time Machine is a well-known classic. And from the 4 (of 5) star review, it's clear that I enjoyed it. So I'll skip that and go to some random thoughts...
I could not believe how short of a story it was. Calling it a novella is, in my opinion, a stretch. Having seen two movie versions, I thought myself familiar with the ins and outs of the story and couldn't believe how much of both movies is made up for the screenplays. I understand that an 80-page short story would need to be fleshed-out to be made into full-length movie, but WOW so much of the movies was changed and molded by the filmmakers. For starters, none of the Eloi or Morlocks speak. To be honest, I still have no idea how the time traveling main character learned their names. And the relationship between the female Eloi (Weena, …
Obviously, The Time Machine is a well-known classic. And from the 4 (of 5) star review, it's clear that I enjoyed it. So I'll skip that and go to some random thoughts...
I could not believe how short of a story it was. Calling it a novella is, in my opinion, a stretch. Having seen two movie versions, I thought myself familiar with the ins and outs of the story and couldn't believe how much of both movies is made up for the screenplays. I understand that an 80-page short story would need to be fleshed-out to be made into full-length movie, but WOW so much of the movies was changed and molded by the filmmakers. For starters, none of the Eloi or Morlocks speak. To be honest, I still have no idea how the time traveling main character learned their names. And the relationship between the female Eloi (Weena, the only named character) is more of a parent/child or babysitter/child than a love affair and seen in several adaptions, like the Guy Pearce movie.
Overall, it is definitely a fantastic novel. And one can easily see how it shaped and changed science fiction forever. I think everyone should forget the story of The Time Machine that they know from TV and movies and read this novella. A game changer.
Strakul reviewed The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Review of 'Time Machine by Herbert George Wells (Science Fiction and Time Travel Novel) the Annotated Classic Edition' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
An old classic, but surprisingly good.
Subjects
- Fiction - Science Fiction
- Fiction
- Science Fiction - General
- Science Fiction