L'uomo invisibile

This is the story of how one angry, naked, sneezing albino managed to terrorize the English countryside. To be quite honest, I expected a bit more from the people who fended off the Nazis for years. But Wells seemed to think his fellow countrymen would be a bit too inept to toss a sheet over this sh Leggi tutto

At some point in Plato’s Republic (see II, 359b-360d), Glaucon argues with Socrates that men practice justice only out of fear of punishment. Without that fear, they would commit theft, rape and murder. Case in point: Gyges, whose legendary ancestor, a poor shepherd, once found a magic ring inside a Leggi tutto

I read this for 2 reasons. It was short and therefore conducive to my 30 day reading challenge where I read 30 books (this was book 7) AND I was filming the process for a book vs. movie review (which I've now scrapped because the book was average and the movie was terrible and I don't care about eit Leggi tutto

القوة المطلقة قد تحولك من ذكي نبيل الى مجنون حقير بأكثر الطرق تشويقا و إثارةقالها لنا العبقري ويلز في اخر أعوام القرن 19 من بين المواهب الخارقة. .لم ارغب يوما ان اكون خفية..فمعظم ما ساستفاده من هذا الوضع سيندرج تحت بند الحرام..الميزة الوحيدة..انه لا حاجة للعناية بالمظهر او الريجيم..رغبت كثيرا في الط Leggi tutto

SF Masterworks #47 : - This modern classic with the science gone wrong theme is as much a horror book as a sci-fi one. Astoundingly it was written in 1897. Eighteen Ninety Seven!!! It hasn't aged well, for context it was published in the same year as … Dracula. The concept was a H.G. Wells' first; ori Leggi tutto

I have a feeling if I had read this on my own- my rating would have been 3 stars. So I would like to thank the following people for making this such an enjoyable buddy-read. You guys get a whole extra star all of your very own. No fighting when you split it among yourselves please.!!!! Jeff , Stepheny Leggi tutto

An interesting short book with elements of sci-fi, mystery and horror, that was fun to read. The writing style is not my favorite, it’s very straight-forward, concentrating mostly on the plot. I would like more in-depth psychological analysis of Griffin (the Invisible Man) and philosophical explorat Leggi tutto

"Oh! - disillusionment again. I thought my troubles were over. Practically I thought I had impunity to do whatever I chose, everything - save to give away my secret. So I thought. Whatever I did, whatever the consequences might be, was nothing to me. I had merely to fling aside my garments and vanis Leggi tutto