Here comes Christmas, lets get chilled out and some time off with repeats on the telly !
oh,,If I p...
Here comes Christmas, lets get chilled out and some time off with repeats on the telly !
oh,,If I promise to come back with an 'E', THEN REMIND ME !!, I will not be offended.Greg
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The Time Machine. ================ Author - H.G.Wells. (1866 - 1946)
Dismiss the original 1960s film from your mind because there are notable differences in the book.
In fact ignore completely the 2002 film which was so removed from the spirit of the book that Wells must have been turning in his grave.
It begins with the nameless 'Time Traveller' conversing with his fellow academics about the theory of a 4th dimension, Time.
He demonstrates with a tiny model which they are sceptical about, all accept Filby, his closest friend.
He proposes to time travel before they next see him. A week later he is late for his own dinner party, eventually making a startling entrance, dishevelled and agitated. He takes a seat and a glass of champagne (yes champagne) and begins to recite his story.......,
He travels forward to the year 802,701 A.D. where the people are only 4ft tall. Disease has been eradicated over the millennia, the higher mammals have died out, in fact, and as man has ceased to strive so has he ceased to care. The human spirit needing to fight no more has instead become indulgent and with it his intelligence has declined.
The story of the time machine is a haunted tale and you can see why the ending was changed for the silver screen.
It is about the cannibalistic Morlocks living, quite literally, off of the gentle Eloi. It was written in another time and age when PC was unheard of and where the lines between good and evil where as clearly defined as black is from white. Once the morlocks enter the story there is a creeping dread and an inhuman and malign atmosphere that permeates the story from that point onwards.
The Cast: ======== The Time Traveller. The Eloi. Weena. The Morlocks. Filby.
The book is a wonderful 'if dark' romp through the amazing but deadly future which was and still is a classic in every sense of the word.
The descriptions of when the time traveller moves forward and forward through time again and again are excellent and shows what an imagination Wells had.
The writing is simply spell binding and a true page turner in every sense of the word. The future looks beautiful but awful at the same time. There really is a creeping dread portrayed throughout the book.
At 100 pages long you will soon whip through this book.
A book you will read again. Greg.
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