I wrote a comment on this book and then promptly lost it. Anyhow, I was excited about this book because it is a classic and Wells is seen as one of the best writers of science fiction. However, while the writing was good, I found it to be dry. Partly, it is because of the format. After the initial chapter with conversation and the final chapter, it is mostly the time traveler telling about what he observed on his travelers. There was no conversation and little to make it interesting, in my opinion.
Additionally, I came to really dislike the time traveler. He neglected Weena and it eventually led to her death, and, even though they did nothing to him, he took an immediate loathing to the Morelocks and wanted to kill them. Really?
Obviously, I was not a fan. What did you think, B?
I read the book and returned it to the library so I am relying on my not too good senior memory for my comments.
I was trying to decide what the significance of the gold chair and the extremely tall statue was, especially when the time machine was placed in the base of the statue. The people were very primitive and yet they managed to move the time machine into it.
The time traveler found that after all those years man was still divided into good and evil, but it appeared that evil had the upper hand. He found a distinction of male and female in the good people but it was hard to tell if there was that distinction in the evil ones. And maybe they weren't evil but were only surviving in the way they had learned to survive. There didn't seem to be any animals so they had become cannibals for survival. Of course they could have become vegans like Weena's people. Vegans should like this book. It portrays vegans as gentle non-violent people and the meat eaters as mean ugly people.
There could have been more interaction with the time traveler and his fellowmen on his return to his own time. The ending was interesting.
I read an edition meant for junior adults so I was treated to lots of illustrations. The artist seemed to have had fun drawing for this book.
I am not a big fan of science fiction but the story held my interest.
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I wrote a comment on this book and then promptly lost it. Anyhow, I was excited about this book because it is a classic and Wells is seen as one of the best writers of science fiction. However, while the writing was good, I found it to be dry. Partly, it is because of the format. After the initial chapter with conversation and the final chapter, it is mostly the time traveler telling about what he observed on his travelers. There was no conversation and little to make it interesting, in my opinion.
Additionally, I came to really dislike the time traveler. He neglected Weena and it eventually led to her death, and, even though they did nothing to him, he took an immediate loathing to the Morelocks and wanted to kill them. Really?
Obviously, I was not a fan. What did you think, B?
I read the book and returned it to the library so I am relying on my not too good senior memory for my comments.
I was trying to decide what the significance of the gold chair and the extremely tall statue was, especially when the time machine was placed in the base of the statue. The people were very primitive and yet they managed to move the time machine into it.
The time traveler found that after all those years man was still divided into good and evil, but it appeared that evil had the upper hand. He found a distinction of male and female in the good people but it was hard to tell if there was that distinction in the evil ones. And maybe they weren't evil but were only surviving in the way they had learned to survive. There didn't seem to be any animals so they had become cannibals for survival. Of course they could have become vegans like Weena's people. Vegans should like this book. It portrays vegans as gentle non-violent people and the meat eaters as mean ugly people.
There could have been more interaction with the time traveler and his fellowmen on his return to his own time. The ending was interesting.
I read an edition meant for junior adults so I was treated to lots of illustrations. The artist seemed to have had fun drawing for this book.
I am not a big fan of science fiction but the story held my interest.
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