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H.G. WellsThe Time Machine (May 27, 2008)

LibriVox recording of The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells.

The Time Machine is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895, later made into two films of the same title. This novel is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. (Summary from wikipedia.org)

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This audio is part of the collection: LibriVox

Artist/Composer: H.G. Wells
Date: 2008-05-27
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; fiction; hgwells; H.G. Wells; audiobook; sci-fi; science fiction

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: ubuntuben - - August 23, 2009
Subject: Reader doesn't read well
I can't listen & understand. The reader is very distracting.

Reviewer: casual_listener - - October 12, 2008
Subject: Definitely enrapturing.
The story is definitely enrapturing!
Anyway it's very tough to get through chapters 2, 3 and 4 because the reader adds random pauses here and there giving away your chances to get the whole sentence. It's possible to endure that for a chapter or two, but you'd miss a lot of sentences and meanings and it'd be more of a sport game than the joy of listening to an audiobook. It's like reading without any respect for punctuation whatsoever. He starts good enough for the first few minutes then wander away to his own random pauses style. Luckily there's an alternative gutenberg.org version here http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17401/17401-readme.htm You can fetch those few chapters from there and then move on with listening to the other librivox chapters which are very well read!
If you think I'm just being a complainer just listen to the whole Chapter 04, if you can make it, well you have strong willpower and you may want to join the reading decryption tournament next season.

Reviewer: mikezane - - September 23, 2008
Subject: don't like reader
Reader is not good, too dramatic. Was not able to listen to entire book.

Edited after other (rude!) commenter posted -
I suppose I must be more detailed to avoid being insulted -

The first two chapters of this novel are read by a reader that is, frankly, difficult to follow. He has read other portions of books (the death of Sherlock Holmes was one) and I found it to be impossible to listen to. I also believe that missing out on so much of the introduction of the book makes it impossible to get into the story line later. That is why I give the story a low rating.

Reviewer: d.e.wittkower - - July 24, 2008
Subject: Ignore the other review
The other reviewer says he doesn't care for the reader. But, there are *9 different readers*! I guess he probably was referring to the first reader, since he doesn't seem to know that there are more than one.

I find the first reader to have done a very good job, and I don't feel the reading is too dramatic at all. Even if I did though, as noted above, there are two different readings of the first chapter, so the other reader could have skipped the first reader anyway.