It's a classic. What else can I say?
Okay, so probably most people have read and/or seen this in some form. A man makes a machine and travels forward in time to the year "Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One." I was so confused every time I read that. Later I learned it was 802,701. After seeing it, I realize it makes me look like an idiot, but living in the 1900s and 2000s, I wasn't really expecting a book written in 1895 to go forward that far in time.
Anyway, back to the story. It was...interesting. The world has changed. The scientist comes across two different types of human, and neither is what he's expecting. He seems to change the environment (for the worse) and gets out before he's attacked. He goes forward in time a few more times before returning to where he started.
Overall, I thought it was okay. The pages-long paragraphs could be a little tedious, especially when they weren't really adding anything to the story. The book itself isn't that long to begin with, but even some of that could probably have been removed. I just kept imagining myself sitting there listening to a man telling this story, uninterrupted, for hours and staying interested. I'm not certain it would happen, even if I believed him. In that time (even now for that matter), it would be a hard tale to accept. Didn't really hold my interest the way I thought it would.
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