Finally managed to enjoy this classic. Huxley draws an interesting picture of our society's future. Enslaved by our own desire for eternal happiness and the society's need for stability and productivity. That does sound quite convincing. Between that world and the one described by Orwell, it makes you wonder if we're already somewhere in between those two.
I'm curious to watch the film so I picked up the book when I saw it at some airport.
I'm still torn between "just a thriller" and "wow this is excellent". Turns out it got addictive pretty quickly and I liked the twists it took every now and again. Still, it just followed that pattern you kind of expected in the beginning.
Personally, seeing the couple's relationship develop was touching and actually pretty depressing at a time. Will our own relations eventually develop like that? Let's hope this is all just fiction and we can be better people and better couples.
Yet another one from the "trilogy in five books". The plot is definitely getting weaker than in the ones before, yet Adam's writing is still as good, I suppose. Still, I wouldn't have expected that before, but I'm kind of fed up with his writing for now. I guess that's just because I've read him too much in too short of time. So before I get back to continuing the series, I'll grab some other authors first.
I would give this is a less-than-four-stars-but-definitely-more-than-three-stars rating. It's really close to fours stars though. After having read "The Fault In Our Stars", this is a little weaker. Still, the characters are interesting with a lot of personal stories to them. The story has got parts where I had to actually laugh while sitting alone in my room. A good sign. All in all an entertaining and easy read, with a few passages that make you pause and think.
I've started reading through some of the classics you can get for free for your Kindle. Till then I never knew The Time Machine was such a short book, perfect for some casual 2 day reading.
This is a simple yet exciting adventure story that draws an image of the possible future where our society could be heading. Also, it's hard not to like a story where the main character is a classy fellow who travels through time in gentleman's clothes from the 19th century.
Recommended by my girlfriend, this book by Douglas Adams has been sitting on the reading stack for a while. Partly because I had other things to read in the meantime, partly because I felt like I needed a break from Adams' writing for a while. I don't know if it was the last bit that made the difference, but I really liked this book. Adams and Carwardine are travelling around the world on a mission to shed some light on endangered species (and the pure fact of how shitty we've been treating our world). I had a slight idea of what to expect from a talk by Adams I had watched a while ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZG8HBuDjgc) and was not disappointed. As the book has been written in the late 80s, I'm curious to find out what has happened to the species in the past 20 odd years. Too bad Adams himself is now part of the rare kind of people that no longer enlighten us with their wisdom, humour and wit. :(