WTF??? This wasn't at all what I thought!
First of all, the general storyline I knew:
The Time Traveler makes a time machine and travels to the year 802,701 and meets a very different society from that which one thinks would be in the future. He prepares himself to meet a society that has far advanced medicine and sciences, but instead meets two vastly different groups of beings: the Eloi, peaceful sun loving people who have the mentality of children. They lazy about all day with absolutely no worries. But at night they sleep in big groups to hide from the Morlocks, white, carnivorous, ape-like creatures who live underground and terrorize the Eloi.
The Time Traveler meets a young girl by the name of Weena and she follows him on some of his adventure to recover the time machine, which had been taken by the Morlocks and locked away.
I wont reveal the ending, but I was very surprised at the end with what happens to Weena and the Time Traveler.
I enjoyed the book very much, but I was shocked with what happened to Weena. (Okay, okay, I know its just a story but still!!! It's not fair!)
Anywho, here's my reading list:
A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (Currently reading this)
80,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
So I seem to be on a classics streak... Why not? They're great books. :)
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I read most of the 'classic' science fiction stories of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne when I was young and I am still amazed by them. I'm sure Wells and Verne were read by the later masters such as Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke who likely used them as a springboard to their own creations.
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