Every one of his books I've read I've really enjoyed, and there's no exception with The Time Machine.

His stories I find were fast-paced, plot-driven and pioneering.

I also find that the ones I've read have been unique 'basic' plots with not much character development and with the fast-paced writing you're left with wanting more.

He sets out these basic plots of, alien invasion, time travel and invisibility which are timeless and can be expanded upon.

It's no wonder he's one of the most influential and greatest science fiction writers of all time.

Overall a very good read. The first few chapters flew over my head because of all the technical stuff in it but once I got past this I raced along with it. I have seen the films based on it and the book is very different. A short read and one I intended reading for years and I'm glad now I did.
I'm rounding it up to 3.5 rating.

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.


The Time Machine definitely was not the book I expected it to be. Before reading it, I thought that it would be a short, fast paced book that I would read in one sitting or so. While some of those expectation did come true, this book was so much more than that. It raised so many questions inside of me and made me truly fear the future. Usually, in a dystopian society (this book was a sort of mixture of dystopia and utopia) you would have a government that is oppressing the people. But here, that is not the case; there is no enemy. Here, our humanity is our own worst enemy (or the lack of humanity, to be more exact). The way Wells split mankind into two different, but at the same time quite similar, species was interesting to read. And even though this book made me fear for what is to come in very very distant future, the last sentence of the book did give me hope that everything is not that dark.

Truly an extraordinary book, that left quite big of an impact on me, and I'm sure I'll re-read it in the near future.