H.G. Wells

[Black Rider]

basically the thing which i love to do over the summer is go to the library and read random books. this year i discovered a book with some short stories by h.g. wells and they were awesome!!! i love his writing style and his subject matter. just sharing that with the world...
has anyone else read anything by him and does anyone else have any comments on his writing?
just curious:grin:

[Nessa]

As a result of a wonderful American education, I am rather confused about Wells.... Did he write The Time Machine and The Invisible Man and Journey to the Center of the Earth?

[Catz]

lol lol
Well he definitely wrote the Time Machine and Journey to the Centre of the Earth...dont actually think the Invisible Man was in fact a book....tho i might be wrong there;) please correct me if i am....
but my favourite Wells story is War of the Worlds....mainly cos of Orson Welles and his famous hoax....heheheheh very :cool:
:catz:

[Illuvatar]

There was a really really great story that I had to read as part of my Short Stories(my favorite) class in High School. I've always remebered this one story that I read, in fact I was just telling the wife about it the other night.

The story was about a planet that never stops raining, except for once every ten years or so. The story revolves around a group of kids in a classroom, and one of them is insisting that she has seen sunshine and can remember in great detail how good it felt on her face. None of the other kids believe her and tease her without mercy. They even go so far as to lock her in a closet. While she's locked in the closet the rain stops and then sun comes out. All the other kids run out and play in it and revel in the sunlight. Just as the rain starts back up and they have to run back inside, they remember the little girl in the closet and with much sadness and remorse they let her out of the closet.

I don't remember much more of it, but I'm curious if by chance it was in the book you just read. It's been some 20 years since high school, and wouldn't that be just too spooky if you picked up the same book!! :)

Let me know would ya'?

Illu:cool:

[Nessa]

Well thats embarrasing....:catz:

By hoax do you mean the radio broadcast in which people actually thought there was an alien invasion? I'm to feel really stupid if thats not what you meant and I'm just babbling on....lol

Illuvatar! I know the one you mean! Where it only quit raining for a very short time over so many years and the poor girl wanted to see the sun shine so badly..... that story was so sad.... but I have no idea if it was Wells or not.

[Black Rider]

that story is one of the only stories i have ever read where i cried. i think because i could relate to it a bit. even now i am teary. it was so sad. i'm not sure who the author was but i know i read it in middle school. now its going to eat away at me until i find out about it again.

[Illuvatar]

Yes that story stuck with me as well. Twenty years later I can still hear the rain and see her crying in the closet.

If you find out who did it, don't forget to let me know!

As far as HG, he has written some great ones. The War of the Worlds was put on the radio by Orson Wells similarly to the BBC reproduction of LoTR, however there were a lot of folks across the nation who didn't here the opening warnings about it being a hoax, and subsequently FREAKED OUT!!

Journey to the center of the earth would have to be my all time favorite though!! :thumbs:

[Catz]

what the heck was that story called??...now youve done it Illu....ill be up all nite trying to remember....tho im pretty sure its not Wells....Heinlein maybe???.....arrrrggghhhhverymad *sidles off to start searching thru her books*
:catz:

[Arveleg]

I read War of the Worlds in high school and did a book report on it. I thought the book was quite good!

I heard the radio show on a haloween night once and it was good as well, though it ididn't have the impact it did in the 30s. One must remember that radio was the pinnicle of technology back then, and people trusted their newsmen's voices for news on the world events, which were leading up to World War 2, and when Orsen Wells presented his realistic-sounding masterpiece, it had an enormous effect.

The movie? Well, not bad effects-wise, but it doesn't even come close to what is described in the books.