Read The Time Machine Audible Audio Edition H G Wells Alan Munro Trout Lake Media Books
Download As PDF : The Time Machine Audible Audio Edition H G Wells Alan Munro Trout Lake Media Books
The science fiction classic that coined the term "time machine" and is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel. A must listen for any fan of science fiction!
Read The Time Machine Audible Audio Edition H G Wells Alan Munro Trout Lake Media Books
"This was my first reading of this classic. It'd been on my reading list for years. Mark Twain's quote about classics being "books one always means to read but never gets around to" came to mind as I was reading. I'm so glad I got around to it. Once I started it, I could not put it down. This story is astounding in that it was written in the late 1900s. I've enjoyed time travel stories for years, and now know that Mr. Wells is the father of this subgenre. I recommend this for all ages, particularly young readers.
This is the first Amazon Classic I have read. The formatting and editing were excellent, which made it an easy, pleasurable read. This has often not been the case with other classics I have read."
Product details
|
Tags : The Time Machine (Audible Audio Edition) H. G. Wells, Alan Munro, Trout Lake Media Books, ,H. G. Wells, Alan Munro, Trout Lake Media,The Time Machine,Trout Lake Media,B007S0YCUY
The Time Machine Audible Audio Edition H G Wells Alan Munro Trout Lake Media Books Reviews :
The Time Machine Audible Audio Edition H G Wells Alan Munro Trout Lake Media Books Reviews
- The movie was better – how often do you hear that? Not often. I listened to the audio-book which was very well read – no issues there. The problem is that I remember the movie well and compared it to what I was listening. Are we to believe that this scientist who was intelligent enough to build a time machine and have elevated conversations with his friends, couldn’t plan even one step ahead and construct a torch in the same fashion that a caveman could. After the first time of almost being killed in the dark, we would expect him to learn from his mistakes and adapt to the circumstances. The tragedy being that the young girl dies because of his foolishness. Had the scientist died it would have just been poetic justice. In my opinion, the movie had a more believable time line and the main character made mistakes but was able to learn from them as we would expect from someone with his experience and education.
- This was my first reading of this classic. It'd been on my reading list for years. Mark Twain's quote about classics being "books one always means to read but never gets around to" came to mind as I was reading. I'm so glad I got around to it. Once I started it, I could not put it down. This story is astounding in that it was written in the late 1900s. I've enjoyed time travel stories for years, and now know that Mr. Wells is the father of this subgenre. I recommend this for all ages, particularly young readers.
This is the first Classic I have read. The formatting and editing were excellent, which made it an easy, pleasurable read. This has often not been the case with other classics I have read. - I read this novella a long time ago with an unedited text. I thought the Morlocks were huge beings that prey upon the beautiful Eloi. Obviously my memory did not serve me well enough as I re-read this story, I have realized how unreliable memory sometimes is. The Eloi is bigger than the Morlock size-wise but it is the the smaller beings that eat the bigger one like cattle.
I am really glad to have bought this Norton edition for it is, as usual, excellent in its annotated text,generous selection of contextual information as well as the inclusion of early reviews and recent criticisms. It is critically useful for the editor to include the alternate chapters of the story; it allows the reader to see how different the unused opening chapter is from the published one. The alternate opening chapter, I incline to believe, is far too technical and boring to be appealing to contemporary readers. As the editor points out, the author has revised the main text many times. And surprisingly, what is usually claimed the first edition is NOT exactly the first. That is why this edition by Prof. Arata is particularly praise-worthy as it is the result of having compared both early editions of The Time Machine published on both sides of the Atlantic, together with the earliest edition which has not been much referred to.
Contemporary reviewers analyse the novel from various perspective but the better interpretations of the story come from reviewers in the 20th C as the editor has compiled some selections from Bergonzi and Hume, whose essays are very useful. In Cantor's essay, he puts the text in a wider perspective to fit in the imperial discourse and examines the qualities that are term "modern".
My own impression is that this work is best read alongside with The Island of Doctor Moreau as both touch upon class, degeneration and cannibalism. As a parable, this story of Mr Wells' is probably his unconscious fear of the proletariat attempt to overrun the bourgeois. In The Island of Doctor Moreau, it is the beasts that try to "get" the island visitor, who has been impersonating the master of the island. This is a tale that can be read in both ways forward and backward. Humanity in the future has fallen back in its primitive habits lower level of intelligence and cannibalism.
This is a work by a man of genius, as one early reviewer says. - H.G. Wells `The Time Machine` is a surprising science fiction story for a book published in 1895 (I never felt during the reading that it was such an old novella, it's quite contemporary in writing). The socialist views of the author are easy to identify in the book, but I didn't felt like they were too `imposed` on the reader; I think that such readings are a nice way of understanding other viewpoints (especially coming from other centuries).
I'm not into commenting the story line, giving synopsis or spoilers. This book is basically presenting an alternative future of the earth, exploring the technological, social and psychological aspects of that future. The story is quite plausible (given that it's a science fiction work) and I liked that the author created an almost believable future. The level of detailing is just perfect; enough details to recreate the world and character, but not too much that I got bored.
Overall, it's not an masterpiece but it's a light enjoyable science fiction read. t's quite similar to `The War of the Worlds` from H. G. Wells, which I also do recommend to people who like classic science fiction.
Note I have read this book in format, on my smartphone and device. The reading experience was good, I had no issues. I would have like a better annotated edition of the book. - I'm sure we've all seen the movie - or possibly the Wishbone episode ;) - so we probably all have a general idea of what happens in this book, but it still did manage to surprise me a bit. The tone is surprisingly modern for a book written over a hundred years ago and [unfortunately] the social commentary is just as relevant today as I assume it was at that time. Definitely a short read but also a good one and I especially liked his detailed descriptive language, which made it very easy to picture the world as I was reading.
