Invisible Man (10) by Wells, HG [Mass Market Paperback (2010)]

By Wels

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• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: B008CMQRGO
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Signet Clasics, Paperback(2010)
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.

Customer Reviews

You cannot see me.

I grew up on all the Invisible Man movies and still think of him as Claude Rains. I was surprised by the similarities and differences between the book and the movie. The scenes are rearranged from the book to make visual (or invisible) sense as a movie script. A man all warped up in bandages except for his large pink nose requires a room at the inn and pays well. Slowly, the Innkeeper and her companions suspect there is more to him than just a man with bandages. Occasionally, glimpses of light where there should not be. And the stranger is so cranky that the money may not be worth the trouble of keeping him. Soon there are strange happenings, and the cat is out of the bag, sort of speaking. The trial leads to a murderer and a possible reign of terror. Read more to find out where the secret is revealed and how a man named Griffin got into this situation. If I had read this story a year ago, I would have said it was a well-put-together sci-fi story. I would have just enjoyed the writing and wondered how H.G. came up with the idea. However, after reading much of H.G.'s political writings, I now see that this is a thinly veiled social commentary. We find that, unlike the movie, where Griffin goes mad during the invisibility process, in the book Griffin is always amoral, and anything stressful could set him off. Also, somewhere out there is a couple of floating eyes that belong to a cat. Now one habit that H.G. has in most of his tales is that just when you think he is finished on the subject, he will go off in another direction with some subplot he has slipped into earlier. Therefore, what should have been a short story becomes a novel. Another good example of his writing style can be found in "The Food of the Gods."