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H.G. WellsThe Invisible Man (June 22, 2006)

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LibriVox's public domain recording of H.G. Well's The Invisible Man.

The Invisible Man (1897) is one of the most famous science fiction novels of all time. Written by H.G. Wells (1866-1946), it tells the story of a scientist who discovers the secret of invisibility and uses it on himself. The story begins as the Invisible Man, with a bandaged face and a heavy coat and gloves, takes a train to lodge in a country inn whilst he tries to discover the antidote and make himself visible again. The book inspired several films and is notable for its vivid descriptions of the invisible man--no mean feat, given that you can't see him! (Summary by Alex Foster)

Read by Alex Foster

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Artist/Composer: H.G. Wells
Date: 2006-06-22
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; science fiction

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: ahalin - - October 15, 2011
Subject: Great Book, Fantastic Narrator
Just wanted to publicly acknowledge Alex Foster for his incredible reading of H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man at http://librivox.org/invisible-man-by-h-g-wells/

The voices, rhythm, speed volume, pitch and recording are all fantastic. I did contact him privately last year, but he is still one of the best I have ever hear.

Thank you!

Reviewer: Jenny Vee - - June 30, 2011
Subject: this one is well-read
This book is well-read by the reader.

Reviewer: mikezane - - June 16, 2011
Subject: Great story
Power corrupts, and the invisible man is no exception. Experimenting on himself, he succeeds in making himself invisible. Now, he is free to do whatever he wants, take what he wants, hurt who he wants. How can the average man fight against something he can't see?

Personally, I felt sorry for the guy. At the same time, I can relate to Kent's decision. But I won't give anymore away. :-)

I will say I also noticed the buzzing in the background on these recordings. I was able to filter it out with the GE so that the recording was listenable.

Reviewer: aimzzz - - June 10, 2011
Subject: a different kind of tension
I had forgotten how much I wanted to empathize with the Invisible Man and how impossible it is. In this day, we are regularly presented with misunderstood monsters & villains-- it seems fresh to encounter one who is a not completely a flat character yet is far from warm and fuzzy.

Four stars for story and 5 stars for the reader-- he's excellent.
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Update:
Listened again a year later from my comments above... this time I was struck by the dry humor & it's presentation by Alex Foster. Upped my rating from 4 stars to 5.

Reviewer: samantha12 - - January 1, 2011
Subject: Seeing is believing
Great reading! I especially liked the rustic characterisations. Nice comic touches.

Captures the unbalanced intensity of Griffin well.

Reviewer: TriciaG - - December 23, 2010
Subject: Great Story, Great Reading
I agree with the previous reviewer. The story is eerily good, with a hard-to-like main character. Wow, he's mean!

The reading is wonderful.

My biggest beef is that there is a background noise through almost all of the sections. Also, the section/chapters aren't stated at the very beginning of the recording, and the title tags are so long that it takes a long time to display which chapter I'm on when listening on my MP3 player. (These are all nit-pick technicalities that LibriVox has since changed, but this was recorded before those changes.)

It's definitely a worthwhile listen, despite the nit-picks.