He was a prolific writer, writing more than a hundred books of both fiction and non-fiction, and works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, essays, histories, programmes for world regeneration, and social commentary. Wells is most famous today for his science fiction novels, of which the best known are: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Dr. He taught biology before becoming a professional writer and journalist. Huxley at the Normal School of Science, South Kensington. After two years' apprenticeship in a draper's shop, he became a pupil-teacher at Midhurst Grammar School and won a scholarship to study under T. Wells, was the third son of a shopkeeper. I enjoyed War of the Worlds so much more. Overall, I found it tedious but the writing was good. At the end I felt like the moral was “Mean people suck but it’s better than being alone.” I’m not sure if I was supposed to get something out of this book. Wells did have a good point that the only really good use for invisibility is murder. The crappy thing about being invisible is that it’s easy to get things, but hard to enjoy them. For example, the fact that he can’t sleep because his eyelids are invisible. I could tell a lot of thought went into what it would really be like. I was surprised about the little things that he struggles with, though. Obviously he learns the bad things about invisibility. I’m pretty sure his antagonist was all the stupid people in the whole world. I found the main character interesting if not likable. He’s an anti-hero. I thought that was a fascinating way to look at the world. It was based on the idea that our world is an illusion of light. The science behind the invisibility was pretty interesting. I had to make myself finish this book and keep pencils far, far away from my eyes. When the plot finally picked up, instead of some much needed action the cool stuff was recapped in a conversation where he just describes all the action in the most dull way imaginable. These outsiders noticed something was not quite right (“Look how much time he spends alone!”) but not to the point that I found it very interesting. I thought it was told from the least interesting perspective possible –from the outside observers instead of the invisible man’s view and what he was struggling with. But the story itself moved at a snail pace. 28).” And he uses the word “hobbledehoy” which had the Downton Abbey fangirl in me grinning. 33)” and “The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action (p. 19),”violently firing out its humanity (p. Phrases like “the inhuman bludgeoning of all tentative advances of curiosity (p. Wells has a way with words and I really enjoyed his turn of phrase. I really liked the writing in The Invisible Man, but I thought the storytelling was awful. This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows.
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