A review by ed_moore
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

“We are always getting away from the present moment, our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions are passing along the material with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave”

“H.G Wells’ ‘The Time Machine’ portrays time as a dimension equal to height or width, where a scientist has constructed a Time Machine and recounts his first voyage into the future. It was an improvement on ‘War of The Worlds’ however for a book titled ‘The Time Machine’ I felt as if it’d be better if the book was just set in the future world of 802,701 as oppose to complicating the book with the time travel aspects which really don’t add much. The utopian society of the future was generally quite unimaginative too aside from the concept Wells explored of the depletion of human intellect.

Alike to ‘War of the Worlds’, Wells opts to leave his characters unnamed which results in a lot of reader detachment and in addition to their lack of names, the characters are quite flat and uninteresting. There is no remarkable development in them nor do they express much emotion. Perhaps this was down to length but I would also just attribute it to Wells’ distanced and writing style that lacks any flower.