Book: The Time Machine

H.G. Wells takes you back in time to Victorian England where a nameless Nobleman has invented a time machine. Side Note: no one gets a name just identifiers like the journalist or very oddly the Medical man (does he mean med student, doctor, or a pathologist? We don't know and it's weird to me.) Because of this I thought the main focus would be on the time machine itself and the outcomes or theories related to time traveling but once the "Time Traveller" actually goes to the future it turns into a commentary on society and how the elite need to be careful about their status; if they get too comfortable that the poor will turn against them. Which is cool, I guess, but because we spent almost no time getting to know the characters I also don't care about their plight or problems. (Also, that lesson I feel is extremely apparent if you just look at the French Revolution.)

The Narrator at some point gets scared and is running around like a crazy person and I feel absolutely nothing; if anything because of his judgemental assumptions on the people he just met, I'm actually glad something bad happens to him. I suppose because this was the invention of the time-traveling trope and specifically the first time a time machine came into literature, I expected to be dazzled or something and I just wasn't.

For the time period, and the fact that this was a short story the world building was ok, but I feel like H.G. Wells wanted to bring up two different theses in a story that was long enough for one. However, it did have a huge impact on literature, and we have the time traveling trope because of it so I rate this 2 and a half indifferent cats out of 5.

 

Kat K out-

 


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