| | Comment from (2003-03-09) |
| Wells interest is not in his writing, but in the ideas he presented. He was first and foremost a thinker, not a writer, and to his credit, he predicted such ideas as Socialism and the Atomic Age decades before there occurance. |
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| | Comment from (2003-03-08) |
| Wells' popularity is a mystery to me. His science fiction novels are contrived to the point of being ridiculous (especially "The Time Machine" and "Island of Dr. Moreau"), and the subject matter is seldom interesting enough to endure the tedium of reading his work. But he was ahead of his time, you might say - but so was Jules Verne; the difference is that Verne actually had talent as a writer, whereas Wells is simply an embarrassment to literature. |
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| | Comment from (2003-03-08) |
| I'll second Jago360's comment! |
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