What an intriguing and pleasant trip down memory lane. "Why is it intriguing?" you may ask? I thought I read the book 10 or 15 years ago on top of having seen the movie when I was seven or eight – over 50 years ago, but I clearly do not have memories of the book! I think I just didn't read it :-(, it's so different from the movie and my memories from 50+ years ago! As is often the case, the movie is intrinsically different than the book, and my own belief is that the book is far better. Interactions between the narrator (the "time traveler"), and the residents of the year 8000+ are definitely not as simple in the book as in the movie, and the overall society is painted as being more complex in the end in the book. Actually, it's not that society overall is more complex – it's extremely simple, but it's overall foundation and incitement is definitely more complicated; and things that" the time traveler" thinks will be simple actually succumb to physics and are frequently more complex and difficult than the naïve hopes on which they are based.