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Tono-Bungay (Modern Library Classics)
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A book often starts a bit slowly for me, but after 30 or 40 pages, I'll gather more interest. I did not expect this to be any different. Early, is this: I thought of my uncle as Teddy directly I saw him; there was something in his personal appearance that in the light of that memory phrased itself at once as Teddiness -- a certain Teddidity. Tedditity. Certainly I could look forward to more such imaginative phrasing.
Unfortunately, I never noticed another. I wonder if Wells got tired writing this, because I kept falling asleep reading it. I expected more action, or more concentration on this flamboyant Teddidity character. Nope. Instead, the first person narrator wandered off into his rather boring life and told about it completely analytically, as if he had not lived it.
My only Wells, as science fiction doesn't interest me, so I'm unlikely to read anything else by him.
Unfortunately, I never noticed another. I wonder if Wells got tired writing this, because I kept falling asleep reading it. I expected more action, or more concentration on this flamboyant Teddidity character. Nope. Instead, the first person narrator wandered off into his rather boring life and told about it completely analytically, as if he had not lived it.
My only Wells, as science fiction doesn't interest me, so I'm unlikely to read anything else by him.
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May 10, 2013 06:40AM
I read "War of the Worlds" recently. I think there are similarities! He 'tells' rather than 'shows', which is a bit tiring, but for its era, it's not bad, in terms of the ideas. But I found the delivery rather wooden.
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The thing I appreciated most is his descriptions of late 19th Century England. As you know, I am a fan of 19th Century literature, and the more I learn the more I can appreciate it. What I liked least was his equating capitalism with charlatanism, leading to his conclusion that socialism is the solution to all ills. Socialism has its own ills, Mr. Wells.
