Monday, March 07, 2022
The Time Machine
My wife has been reading through some of the classics in our library, and recently she offered her opinions about some of H.G. Wells' works. I realized that it's been decades since I've read this book and figured that needed to be remedied.
The Time Machine is one of the first time travel stories to use a mechanism to travel through time. The story starts with the protagonist, known only as "The Time Traveller", telling about his experiments to a group of friends. They all think he's hoaxing them, of course. At least until the next week when the friends come around for another dinner and find the Time Traveller bruised and disheveled. He shares with them a tale of a journey to the far future.
Like I said, it's been years since I read the story. The fact that I've forgotten a lot of it and that I've matured since then made it seem like I was reading a brand new book. It was far from the most exciting time travel story I've read, but I figured that it was probably a bit more "realistic" than most of the tales I've read. The story moves rather quickly for all that. Mr. Wells' characters are somewhat weak, but I had no problems visualizing his settings. Even if this tale wasn't a classic, I'd recommend y'all to check it out.
Labels: CheckItOut, HGWells
Thursday, March 03, 2022
A Symphony of Echoes
This one's a sequel to Just One Damned Thing After Another. The first sequel, actually, because there's a whole series of these things. In this very amusing account, the gang at St. Mary's deal with Jack the Ripper, a kidnapped team member, a suspicious psychiatrist, trespassing in a royal garden, and a criminal who hasn't committed his crime yet. I enjoyed it immensely, though I was a bit troubled to realize I had forgotten a lot of details of the previous book after a mere seven months. Oh, well, I still remember enough about this tome to advise you to check it out.
Labels: CheckItOut, ChroniclesofStMarys, JodiTaylor
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