I haven’t read HG Wells since I received a collection of his stories for my 16th birthday. Of course, what I mostly remembered was The Time Machine, and being fascinated by the Eloi and Morlocks but bored by the rest of it. This particular edition is an audio collection of 10 stories of various qual...
Without the summaries at the beginning of the chapters I would have been completely lost. I'm going to leave smart books of fiction to smart people. The book felt like when I read the Bible. I'm completely out of my depth when I read complex fiction. (I'm sure it's a five star book for smart peo...
I somehow managed to miss reading this in school and in all the years since, so I picked it up as an audiobook so I didn't feel so disconnected from the entire world, which does seem to have read it. I did enjoy it, but in the same sort of way you "enjoy" a thriller you know is going to end badly....
I am a self-proclaimed Cynical Optimist. I damn-well expect the worst out of my fellow human beings, but I hope like hell they'll prove me wrong. That is why I appreciate this book.You will learn more about human nature by reading about these animals than you're likely to be privy to in a thousand o...
So first, how creepy/accurate is this cover? It sums up the book perfectly. I never read this book growing up. I never even saw the (child scarring) movie either. I went in knowing it had something to do with rabbits. And that was it. The beginning of the book actually had an intro written by th...