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4. the Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
5. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Hi Eliza
You were missed! It is good to see posts from you. Last month I started The Island of Dr. Moreau but didn't finish it before it had to go back to the library. I hope to obtain it again before 2009 ends.
I'm adding Libra to my list. Thanks for your great description!
Hmmm. The Island of Dr Moreau is one of his that I haven't read - I shall add it to the list...
I started Dr. Moreau years ago and never got around to finishing it. I think it may be time to revisit it...
Glad you liked Dr. Moreau !!! Good to see you back. I didn't finish my Halloween books and had to rush through a bunch of ER books to write reviews!! Oh well, maybe I'll finish out the year with those and some other comfort reads. I've had a big classics year.
... in October):
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Tags: 1890s, sci-fi, fiction, U.K.
Rating: ★★★1/2
Enjoyed this one much more than War of the Worlds , which I also read ...
10- The island of Dr. Moreau
Interesting concept but the biology is *so* wrong, it kind of distracted me. The war of the worlds was much better imo.
I don't know why, I kept thinking about Crake in Oryx and Crake while reading.
4/5
97- The island of Dr. Moreau
Interesting concept but the biology is *so* wrong, it kind of distracted me. The war of the worlds was much better imo.
I don't know why, I kept thinking about Crake in Oryx and Crake while reading.
4/5
84. The Island of Doctor Moreau , H. G. Wells
... Who Harnessed the Wind (ER)
Kreisler, Fritz: Four Weeks in the Trenches
Quinn, Spencer: Dog On It
Wells, H.G.: The Island of Dr. Moreau
Best in October:
Fiction: Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
Nonfiction: Kamkwamba, William: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Books ...
... reading Shutter Island and have about half of The House of the Seven Gables to finish. But I got through Dracula, The Island of Dr. Moreau , Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde and The Monkey's Paw. This has been lots of fun.
... my mean rating is 3.24! I guess that explains that 0.5 rating difference you talked about :)
I had been planning to read The Island of Dr. Moreau for a few months, but Mac(blackdogbooks) convinced me to postpone it till Halloween, when we were discussing the Halloween Stack for the year and We ...
... well as I do or if I'm a little more generous in the stars I give. :-) Probably I'm too generous. I'm glad you enjoyed Dr. Moreau --it seems to have created quite a stir on LT this month--a lot of people read it for the Halloween Read.
41. The Island of Dr. Moreau - H. G. Wells
3.5/5
... Face out of the library, and will probably take a first look at it this evening if I get a chance.
I took a look at Dr. Moreau but just decided I'm not in the mood for it. I will surely read it someday, but not right now.
Great reviews! I've read both, but now I want to go back and re-read Moreau ...
... that in Australia, so could be interesting.)
And I'm reading ghost stories, although none of them are 1001 books. (Well, The Island of Doctor Moreau was horror.)
Best. Holiday. Ever.
Yep, looks like it's finally time to get round to reading The Island of Dr Moreau ...
Anyone who's read it recently might find a book I read recently, The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares interesting - it sounds as though it's nothing like as scary, but I do know that it was ...
... me want to re-read House of the Seven Gables again on a dark and stormy night with a big mug of hot cocoa.
I loved The Island of Dr Moreau - did you see the movie they made of it? Not as good as the book, but not bad either.
I enjoyed The Island of Doctor Moreau , but it's rather over-the-top in its gothic horror. Which may be a Good Thing, I certainly rather like books of that ilk. :)
After a bit of pfaffing about, I've now settled on A Confederacy of Dunces as the commute read, and The Graveyard Book as my ...
I think I'm going to have to break down and read Moreau , even if it has to be read via the computer/internet. It sounds too good to miss!
Since I understand it's rather short, I guess it won't be too bad reading it from the computer screen . . .
BDB
I definitely agree that Moreau has been the scariest read I've had this month!
Great review of House of Seven Gables-- you really captured the essence and mood of the novel in a few choice words. Thumbs up! I think this may be my favorite read this month--it is so far. (I read Wo ...
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
My Review on the book's home page:
Wells’ story of an evil scientist and the madman’s unnatural creations can be read on many different levels, including as pure horror. Many ...
Book #59, The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
My Review on the book's home page:
Wells’ story of an evil scientist and the madman’s unnatural creations can be read on many different levels, including as pure ...
... Stasia
Eliza, I think we both found more to this book than we had expected! Stasia, I don't usually like "horror" and Moreau had more horror elements than the others I've read this month, but the moral and ethical issues made the book compelling reading so the horror elements didn't seem ...
With so many our our group who have recently read and recommended The Island of Dr. Moreau , I simply have to add it to the tbr pile.
Thanks for your great reviews! Your thread is a great (but dangerous one.)
After all the glowing reviews here on LT, I really must give The Island of Dr. Moreau a try.
I'm adding The Island of Dr. Moreau to my wish list. Thanks, Tad!
passing by to thank you for including The Island of Dr. Moreau onto the Halloween read list - TadAd, MusicMom and myself all enjoyed it quite a lot and might not have read it otherwise. I still haven't posted a review though both Tad and MM have.
Happy Halloween reading!
Eliza
>214: Karen,
I hope you enjoy Grand Obsession.
About the Asperger's list: I just finished The Island of Dr. Moreau by Wells (and he studied under Thomas Huxley, or did you mean Aldous?) and my daughter is reading Andersen's tales to me. An interesting coincidence.
I just finished The Island of Dr. Moreau . I really enjoyed it...my favorite of Wells' books that I've read.
... books than the movie. Necessarily so, given how much is in the book!
I officially gave up on Blindness so picked up The Island of Doctor Moreau at the bookshop at lunchtime yesterday. It's a slim volume, so am almost most of the way through it already. Good fun.
Book 102:
Wells, H.G.: The Island of Dr. Moreau
Science Fiction/Halloween (10/15/09)
PL 133 pages
H.G. Wells “scientific romances” have remained popular for over 100 years for a very good reason. They are exciting adventures that also give the reader something to think about ...
I finished The Island of Dr. Moreau last night--really enjoyed it! I'm posting my "review" on my 75 thread but I will wait to make comments here until others have a chance to read it.
I'm reading Odd Thomas for my Koontz book--it was available at my library and Stasia said she thought I ...
... because I found myself pottering in the local bookshop at lunchtime. I bought, and have finished the first few chapters of, The Island of Doctor Moreau . I like Wells' spiffing Victorian adventures.
My public transport book was proving too bleak today (Jose Saramago's Blindness, a non-1001 book) so I just bought The Island of Doctor Moreau at lunchtime and got a few chapters into it. I rather like Wells' brand of spiffing Victorian adventures.
Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, on The Island of Dr Moreau .
... Moon
2. Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land
Possibilities:
HG Wells - The Invisible Man
HG Wells - The Island of Dr. Moreau
HG Wells - The Time Machine
HG Wells - The War of the Worlds
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Step ...
Just started The Island of Dr. Moreau ; last weekend was not good for reading and I didn't finish the Hawthorne until Monday night.
... by Anne Rice
5 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
6 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
7 The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
8 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
9 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
10 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
... Gray is a good one; the prose will be easier than some others. Animal Farm is great, as well as Fahrenheit 451 and The Island of Dr. Moreau . Kidnapped is also a great adventure story. And, I definitely second the poster who recommended To Kill a Mockingbird.
I started out with T ...
... tale by serious book publishers. Heritage Press did a fair number of H.G. Wells' classic tales (though not, unfortunately, The Island of Dr. Moreau or The Shape of Things To Come), and the more well-known Jules Verne (though not perhaps in translations which Verne aficionados would approve of) ...
I finished The Island of Dr. Moreau and tried really hard to finish The House of the Seven Gables before I leave for vacation but I only got about halfway through. I'm off to NYC to, as my husband puts it, "buy about 900 books."
81. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells. I believe this is the first Wells novel I've ever read and what a novel it is. It was like a see-saw for me. One the one hand, it's fast moving and full of action. If Wells had lived a century later he would have been right at home writing the ...
I've finished The Island of Dr. Moreau . I think this was my first Wells novel. I'll wait to comment until others have finished.
... Hawthorne’s book because it was “too slow” should enjoy this one. It moves quite quickly! :-)
I'm off to read The Island of Dr. Moreau !
... and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Fear by L. Ron Hubbard
Ghost by Alan Lightman
Creepers by David Morrell
The Face by ...
... lessons in!). I recommend this one, especially to fans of either genre.
Having already read Frankenstein, Dracula, The Island of Dr. Moreau , and something else on Blackdogbook's suggested Halloween list, I'm currently reading Creepers, The Woman in White, and Terri Windling. Should ...
... feelings about the book...hopefully I'll get to a review this weekend.
I'm going to slide some other things in before The Island of Dr. Moreau . Since I've already read The Woman in White, I shouldn't fall too far behind.
... bits as well as the story.
I plan to read Woman in Black next because it is a library book and then I will start Dr. Moreau which I own. I usually like H.G. Wells in spite of his archaic style so I''m looking forward to that one. I'm not sure about Woman in Black--the reviews are ...
... ending. Despite my getting bogged down in the middle for a while, it is really a neat story.
I think I'm going to skip The Island of Dr. Moreau , as I couldn't get it in unabridged book form, and I don't feel like reading off a computer screen. And there are other books I want to get to! I ...
I will plan to start Dr. Moreau over the weekend. I plan to be finished with Gables no later than Thursday night (more time to read now that my team's baseball season is over!) and hope to slip in Woman in Black Friday (my substitute for Woman in White.
I'm looking for The Master and M ...
... reads I seem to have read quite a few, haven't I? I'm surprised at how many I'm familiar with. I'm looking forward to Dr. Moreau . I've read a lot of H.G. Wells and I enjoy him even if he is a little archaic. This is one I haven't read yet.
I'm having so much fun that I'm already ...
Not sure how I managed it (brain fart, no doubt), but I read The Island of Dr. Moreau before The House of Seven Gables. Unimpressed with TIODM. I plan to get to The Wood Wife this weekend when I have a little more time to read.
32. The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells. I read this on DailyLit.com for the Halloween read. I didn't really care for it that much. There was nothing that really compelled me to read on; it wasn't very frightening or mysterious; I really didn't care about anyone in the book. Oh ...
Yeah, we can do the Island of Dr. Moreau next, though the doc's already gone onto Ghost. He's quick, that one.
... get on with the rest of the scary stuff-I know it's there. Regardless, I enjoy Hawthorne's style.
I'm having trouble with The Island of Dr. Moreau . I like the writing and the story is sinister, but the description of the treatment of animals is disturbing. I suppose if I'd seen the movie I ...
... but i think this one is going to be more fun! So far it has an appropriately spooky "back story" and atmosphere.
I Dr. Moreau the next one after that? We are going out of town tomorrow for a long weekend and I want to take the next book just in case I get Hawthorne done before we get ...
... to read The Moonstone instead--but may not get to it until November. I'm going to read The House of Seven Gables and The Island of Dr. Moreau . I have a couple of my own choices I hope to get to, but I also have an ER book I got this month (from the August batch) that I must read and ...
... circulation statistics, which helps with our state funding formula. (Maybe. If they ever pass a state budget.)
Dr. Moreau is out of the library too, except for an "adapted" Scholastic edition. I'll have to read it on the Internet. I definitely want to read The Woman in White, ...
I recently read a graphic novel version of Dracula that was really fun, quite faithful to Stoker. Finished The Island of Dr. Moreau . That was great. I was going to start House of the Seven Gables, but stumbled across Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. What a kick.
... to but a mysterious drunken poet named Edgar Allen Poe. A compelling and interesting read. YA. Good Halloween stuff!
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells. What a really great read. A psychological horror story equal to Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and, like Shelley's Frankenste ...
25. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
This must be H.G. Wells month or something. I just finished my third book by the same author in the month of September. This time it was a classic Wells novel that, for some unknown reason, I had never read even though I've had it in my library.
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Bride of Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer
Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway by Kirk Johnson
Me too. I'm also juggling The House of the Seven Gables, Dracula, The Island of Dr. Moreau , Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde and Trick or Treat Murder. I've had to start my October reading early because I'll be away from home for much of the month.
... doing a group read of Dracula and The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Other books to follow may include Shutter Island, The Island of Dr. Moreau , The House of the Seven Gables and The Ghost.
... I also found this link, Planet Ebook , which has Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Island of Doctor Moreau in ebook form, to download for free! They also have lots of other classics.
... been reading much, but I'm hoping to finish it tomorrow. It's great though, so far. Plus, I'm reading both Dracula and The Island of Doctor Moreau for the Hallowe'en thread, and I never read more than one book at once, so it is proving to be a bit of a challenge. Next up for me is Wolf Hal ...
... Chapter 5, I think. Also, I'm on Chapter 2 of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Still on the first chapter of The Island of Dr. Moreau .
... lists lately, mostly because I have been working my way through the Booker Prize Longlist, but I just started Dracula and The Island of Doctor Moreau .
I'm reading The House of the Seven Gables, The Island of Dr. Moreau and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I'm starting my October reads early because I have so many.
Science-fiction and fantasy
1- The island of Dr. Moreau The silmarillon - started Oct 8 2009 - finished Oct 18 2009
5- Cryptonomicon
Edi ...
I've just started reading The Island of Dr. Moreau and The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde on Dailylit.com. This in addition to the books I'm already reading-
Jane Austen and the Unpleasantness at Scargrove Manor and The House of the Seven Gables.
... repetitive. I've read several other Wells novels off the 1001 Must Read list and library shelves. I enjoyed reading both The Island of Dr. Moreau and The Invisible Man.
I found In the Days of the Comet an extremely long read for a short novel. It's bookended by scenes of a young man ...
... and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Fear by L. Ron Hubbard
Ghost by Alan Lightman
Creepers by David Morrell
The Face ...
I've joined Dailylit.com so I can read The Island of Dr. Moreau and The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde. I'm sure I'll be behind everyone on Dracula as I don't even have it yet, but I'll try to catch up.
... I will start either as soon as I finish my 999 challenge or October 1st--whichever comes first.
From BDB's list
1. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells (purchased)
2. The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (purchased)
3. The Wood Wife by Terri Windling (ordering this ...
I'm in for Dracula, Poe, and The Island of Dr. Moreau - all free through Daily Lit!
I'm starting The Island of Dr. Moreau . Nice to be swinging into the werewolf season...
... I haven't read that I'd like to someday. It's a lot to do by Halloween, though. I'll have to think about this.
BTW, The Island of Dr. Moreau wasn't written by "H. G. Moreau". :-D
... of Edgar Allen Poe
3. The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
4. The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
5. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Fear by L. Ron Hubbard
Ghost by Alan Lightman
Creepers by David Morrell
The F ...
I just finished The Island of Doctor Moreau . I didn't realize it was on the list until I finished it, I was just keeping it as my back-up emergency book on my iPhone. I started reading it when I left my other 1001 book, All the Pretty Horses, at work accidentally. Both books are engaging reads.
... Book - Willis, Queste, Fear Nothing - own, The Turn of the Screw, something by Terry Pratchett, Cybele's Secret, The Island of Dr. Moreau , Princess of the Midnight Ball, Lireal, The Burning Bridge
... Stoker
56. Beg, Borrow, Steal: The Life of a Writer by Michael Greenberg
57. The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
58. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
59. The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
60. A Better Angel by Chris Adrian
61. Woman from Shanghai by Xiahui ...
For the Classics Category: The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Last year I read The Island of Dr. Moreau and was not at all enthused, so I undertook this with a bit of trepidation. Moreau made me feel vaguely ill and did not help me understand Wells' distinction as "the father of ...
... my own hard earned money :)
27. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (1898, 215pgs, English)
Last year I read The Island of Dr. Moreau and was not at all enthused, so I undertook this with a bit of trepidation. Moreau made me feel vaguely ill and did not help me understand Wells' ...
The Island of Doctor Moreau
... these categories on the list. A quick browse showed me the following, which might interest you:
The war of the worlds, The island of Dr. Moreau , The invisible man, and The time machine by HG Wells;
Dracula*;
War with the newts;
The little prince**;
The glass bead game;
...
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21. The Strange Case of Dr. Jerkyll by Robert Louis Stevenson
22. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
23. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G Wells
... most recent copy as far as I can tell.
I added a test review to the more recently added copy of one of my other doubles (Island of Dr. Moreau , I deleted it after testing) and when I clicked the review bubble for either copy of the book it showed the review.
125. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
... Wells? I've got The Invisible Man here also, and I think another but I can't remember the title? I remember reading The Island of Doctor Moreau as a bookring a few years back. Another great read.
I scored today and got 5 paperbacks for a dollar!
Jo’s Boys by Louisa M. Alcott
Eyes of Prey by John Sandford
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G.Wells
Seven Japanese Tales by Junichiro Tanizaki
and
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
... the H.G. Wells books I've including The Invisible Man but haven't even heard of The Sleeper Awakes; I plan to read The Island of Dr. Moreau in October for Halloween. I had The Dain Curse by Hammett and The Big Sleep by Chandler scheduled for my mystery read category this year. I ...
Hi Mac,
Count me in for atleast the following three titles:
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Dracula
The House of Seven Gables
... War of the Worlds and The Time Machine are the only two H. G. Wells books I have read and liked them both, I have The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Invisible Man in my this year's TBR list.
... lit as well and thought you might be interested in a quote from Alberto Manguel's A Reading Diary. Manguel is rereading The Island of Dr Moreau and he writes "the utopian ideal had long faded into its shadow image: the dystopia, the place that allows our worst qualities to bloom unhampered, ...
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
> 53 bookgirl, H.G. Wells always is a good choice! I liked The time machine, but the best book I read by him is The island of Doctor Moreau .
Yesterday started in Kafka on the shore and it fulfills the expectations I had of Murakami. It's a real page turner, although it's hard to ...
The Magnificent Ambersons
One Hundred and One Dalmations
The Postman
She
The Invisible Man
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Masque of the Red Death
The Prince and the Pauper
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Inn of ...
Tried to keep this to ones not previously mentioned, I think I succeeded. :)
Starship Troopers
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Herbert West, Reanimator (movie called The Reanimator)
Slaughterhouse five and a bunch of other Vonnegut I'm too lazy to go looking for, though I know Mother Nigh ...
... Henry Miller
and the 1800's
94. The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells
95. Dracula Bram Stoker
96. The Island of Dr. Moreau H.G. Wells
97. The Time Machine H.G. Wells
98. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
99. Tess of the D'Urbervi ...
#59 TT: It was supposed to be loosely based on The Island of Dr. Moreau . Sadly, I have not yet read it but will try and find a copy. I have heard great things about it.
Catey
>57 Fantasia, Dr Franklin's Island reminds me of The Island of Dr Moreau by H G Wells. Same theme, different treatment, I suspect. Have you read Wells' book?
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... rvilles
17. The Awakening
18. Turn of the Screw
19. War of the Worlds
20. The Invisible Man
21. Dracula
22. The Island of Dr. Moreau
23. The Time Machine
24. The Yellow Wallpaper
25. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
26. The Picture of Dorian Gray
27. The Kreutzer So ...
... Horse by Shelley Mickle
9. Time Bandit by Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand
10. Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult
11. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G Wells
12. An American Haunting by Brent Monahan
13. Odd Hours by Dean Koontz
14. The Spirit of the Place by Samuel Shem
15. Plum L ...
... (1968), 177p
23. Jun 16, 2008 The Search for the Elements by Isaac Asimov (1968), 158p
24. Jun 22, 2008 The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells (1896), 144p
25. Jun 24, 2008 The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett (1986), 241p
26. Jun 30, 2008 Equal Rites by Terr ...
Welcome lech, Dr Moreau is an interesting book. Let us know what you thought of it. I plan to read a selection of Wells in 2009.
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... Jordan
Science Fiction:
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
Ptath - A.E. van Vogt
The Listeners - James E. Gunn
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
Non-Fiction:
The Search for the Elements - Isaac Asimov
3x Carlin: An Orgy of George - George Carlin
Earth: Our Crowded Spac ...
97. The Island of Dr. Moreau by HG Wells
I liked this story better than the other HG Wells I have read this year. I haven't seen the movie but I was able to follow the story better and was entertained from the beginning, wondering where it was go and what was going to happen to him.
98. The ...
... I don’t doubt that Grafton does.
Currently Reading:
Flowers for Algernon
Influence
B is for Burglar
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Away Laughing on a Fast Camel
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C S Lewis
Journey To The Centre Of The Earth by Jules Verne
The Island of Dr Moreau by H G Wells
My Family And Other Animals by Gerald Durrell (not implying in any way that Gerald Durrell is mad . . .)
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
... I write this, I think overall I prefer Verne, though Wells's very best masterpieces (Time Machine, War of the Worlds, Island of Dr Moreau are probably better than Verne's.
... I write this, I think overall I prefer Verne, though Wells's very best masterpieces (Time Machine, War of the Worlds, Island of Dr Moreau are probably better than Verne's.
I paid a visit to one of my local used bookstores and as usual found a few books oddly classified. This time around The Island of Dr. Moreau was placed in the science section (must have been the "dr.") and Alien Sex was placed in romance. No, no, I wasn't looking through the romance section, I ...
33. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
I see that does not pass the test of being on the list. How about The Island of Doctor Moreau ?
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Fire-breathing zombie Roombas?! Wow, I have been away too long... let's hope that Dr Moreau does get his hands on any of these little fellas, who knows where it'll end (aside from the perhaps inevitable End Of The WORLD!)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
World's End by T. Coraghessan Boyle
... several of his works that should be there.
For example The Invisible Man The Time Machine The First Men in the Moon The Island of Dr.Moreau and The Shape of Things to Come among others.
Ok,perhaps he could be considered as 'old hat' to a certain extent,but he still has to be ...
I think I am going to read The Cairo Diary. I have never heard of it, but it sounds good.
I still need to finish The Island of Dr. Moreau , but it is hard because I am getting tired of the story and the book is only 185 pages! Oh well I am sure I will finish it eventually.
Dr. Doolittle by Hugh Lofting
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Mr. Brimble's Hobby by Eve Rice
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Army of the Potomac: Mr. Lincoln's Army by Bruce Cat ...
I am hopefully going to read The Island of Dr. Moreau this week and possibly A Clockwork Orange this week too or next week.
... was normally not something I would have chosen but I liked it even though it was short. Now I think I am going to start on The Island of Dr. Moreau .
#75-The Thirteenth Tale is great! I really liked it!
... die. Normally not something I would have chosen but I liked it even though it was short. Now I think I am going to start on The Island of Dr. Moreau .
#75-The Thirteenth Tale is great! I really liked it!
Loved The Cider House Rules. How about The Island of Doctor Moreau ?
Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson
Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
I finished The Island of Doctor Moreau last week and am just beginning Walden. I suspect this one is going to take me a long time.
11. The Island of Dr.Moreau by H.G Wells
I have started on An American Haunting which will have to be put down when I receive the ARC from BN which should be in any day now also crossing my fingers that blook closeout shipment comes in this week.
10. Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult
Moving away from Jodi Picoult for a book or two and going to pick up Island of Dr.Moreau
... for some reason I am stuck on Jodi Picoult novels. Thats ok after these two i think I will move back to Native Son or Island of Dr.Moreau .
... Prejudice
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Maurice
Moby Dick
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tom Jones
Island of Dr. Moreau
Lord Jim
Around the World in Eighty Days
Madam Bovary
Modern Classics:
Brideshead Revisited
The Bell Jar
The Jungle
Bridge ...
I would have to go with The Island of Dr. Moreau for the I-book. Probably my favorite H.G. Wells book in the list as well. The sci-fi aspect of it, as well as the tragic story of animals trying to be humans, it was such an unusual story.
Although, there was enough posts about If on a Winter' ...
I've finished Treasure Island which was a rollicking good yarn and I'm now reading The Island of Dr Moreau . The narrator is rather uptight!
... n
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
The Early History of Rome by Livy
Smith of Wooton Manor and Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien
Roman Blood by Steven Sa ...
I finished The Island of Dr. Moreau and The Mirror Crack'd last week. This week I am working on What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw. We are preparing to go on vacation soon and I am looking through my monster stacks of TBRs to try and decide what to bring with me.
8. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells - this was a pretty quick read and I think I liked this more than The Invisible Man.
I finally finished The Invisible Man and have now started The Island of Dr. Moreau which I am enjoying as well.
... not read The Remains of the Day yet, but I have it on my list of books to read...
FINISHED:
9. H. G. Wells - The Island of Dr. Moreau (audio book)
10. Stef Penney - The Tenderness of Wolves
11. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness (audio book)
12. Gyles Brandreth ...
... Man either tonight or tomorrow. Foxfire will take me a bit longer. After finishing The Invisible Man, I will be reading The Island of Dr. Moreau , also included in the book.
... I am reading Foxfire 2 and The Invisible Man. The Invisible Man is for my 888 Challenge. My book also includes The Island of Dr. Moreau which I will read as well.
3) The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Enjoyed The Island of Dr Moreau . Now moving onto an audio book of The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad...
... Just not for me, i'm afraid. Ah well, it'd be a dull world if we all liked the same things, eh?
I'm enjoying both The Island of Dr Moreau and The Tenderness of Wolves though.
... Babies by Charles Kingsley
ABANDONED:
The House in the Forest by Michele Desbordes
CURRENTLY READING:
The Island of Dr Moreau by H G Wells
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
This is a GREAT reading week!
... Book Club Member Needs - Various Contributors
8. How to Do Just About Everything - eHow
CURRENTLY READING:
The Island of Dr Moreau - H G Wells
The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney
ABANDONED:
The House in the Forest - Michele Desbordes
Currently listening to an audio book of The Island of Dr Moreau by H. G. Wells and reading The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney.
... a bit of amammoth readig session and finished several books in quick succession!
Am now listening to an audio book of The Island of Dr moreau by H G Wells and reading The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney.
Just started listening to an audio book of The Island of Dr Moreau by H G Wells.
...
The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
Novels I'm Currently Reading:
The Island of Dr Moreau - H G Wells
The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney
Novels Abandoned:
The House in the Forest - Michele Desbordes
Non-Novels:
...
... Richard Matheson *
5. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje *
6. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
7. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells *
8.
D. Non-Fiction
1. Maiden, Mother & Crone by ______ **
2. Freud: darkness in the midst of vision by Louis Breger *
3. ...
Well, H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Island of Dr. Moreau are pretty short. I have them (along with 3 other stories) packaged together in a single book. I've heard The Yellow Wallpaper is also very short....
... Little Prince
The Hobbit
Brave New World
The War of the Worlds
The Invisible Man (by H.G. Wells)
Dracula
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Time Machine
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Frankenstein
Gulliver's Travels
Ar ...
... of the Opera - Gaston Leroux - 6/10
The House in the Forest - Michèle Desbordes - UNFINISHED - 0/10
9. The Island of Dr Moreau - H G Wells - 7/10
10. The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney - 8/10
11. The Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - 2/10
FEBRUARY:
...
... Pit and the Pendulum
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Dracula
The Invisible Man
The War of the Worlds
The Turn of the Screw
The Killer Inside Me
The Collector
Interview With The Vamp ...
Bringing Out The Dead - Joe Connelly
The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
The Island Of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
Ironweed - William Kennedy
... written. I also fnished Fingersmith which was a decent read. I also finished War of the worlds, The invisible man, The island of dr. moreau and The time machine. I really loved the time machine. I also read The dubliners and ethan frome. I really enjoyed Ethan frome, if you ...
The Dead Zone - Stephen King
The Bad Place - Dean Koontz
Between Planets - Robert A. Heinlein
The Island Of Dr. Moreau - H. G. Wells
The House Without a Key - Earl Derr Biggers
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
... by Arthur Phillips, which I really enjoyed - unreliable narrators and shifting perspectives are my weaknesses.
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells, which I basically picked up because it was short and I didn't know where to go after the wonders of Angelica.
The Intellect ...
... Dogs by Leanne Frahm
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Empathy by Chris Lawson
Also I suppose The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
Sirius by Olaf Stapledon
Brain Child by George Turner is a novel.
The Fourth 'R' by George O. Smith
... Spain by Nancy Kress
Skein Dogs by Leanne Frahm
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Also I suppose The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
Sirius by Olaf Stapledon
Brain Child by George Turner is a novel.
... but a really good short novel about death and dying)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Time Machine
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Invisible Man
The War of the Worlds
The Turn of the Screw (short book, but I didn't like it much)
Heart of Darkness (short book but ...
I've left The Island of Dr. Moreau , which was a nasty, brutish place to be. I enjoyed the underlying message, but the book itself was not as enjoyable as The Time Machine. Now I've moved from this remote island to Palestine, trying to finish up some of the books that I've gotten stalled on. I' ...
Finished The Island of Dr. Moreau - it was ok, but not as good as The Time Machine. Now I'm trying to finish up some of the books that I've gotten stalled on - working to complete one of Ghassan Kanafani's short story collections, Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories ...
September 2007
(39) The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
... the wonderful Angelica by Arthur Phillips, I found myself at a loss as to where to go, so I picked up H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau since it is short and seems like an easy read.
Left Victorian England with Arthur Phillips' Angelica and have gone to The Island of Dr. Moreau for a short while. It's ok, not as good as some of Wells' other works.
... and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice
Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen Donaldson
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
Mercenary by Piers Anthony
... come up already, which is important, but how about some OLD SCHOOL classics, like welles? try the time machine or the island of dr moreau or any of his short stories - he was writing sf way before it was cool :)
my favorite current authors are charles stross and cory doctorow ...
... And finally, Canterbury stories by Chaucer, The DaVinci Code, Brave New World, 1984, Slaughterhouse five and The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G Wells present nicely the “young adult” genre.
... And finally, Canterbury stories by Chaucer, The DaVinci Code, Brave New World, 1984, Slaughterhouse five and The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G Wells present nicely the “young adult” genre.
I guess that people may be laughing at my choice of tags, too. They are meaningful ...
... of the words and end up at a much clearer picture of what was going on, etc. Good thing it was short!
This month I read The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells. He was so ahead of his time, considering that now we have the actual potential for genetic manipulation, cloning, etc. I didn't ...
Last week I read The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells (152 pages). It was really ahead of its time, but seems a bit dated now. There is a line in it that I really wanted to quote, but now I can't find it. I will keep looking and edit this later.
Today I finished A Thousand Splendid Su ...
... de Bernieres
2. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
3. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
4. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H G Wells
5. The Time Machine by H G Wells
6. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
7. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hard ...
... criterion, but maybe it will spark someone else to come up with a work that actually does. The book is H. G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau .
Wells uses a theme of illegal eugenics being practiced by a reclusive doctor on a secret South Seas island (I may have got the island location ...
i didn't give up on it, but that might have been only because it was too short to warrant it... h.g. wells's the island of dr. moreau was barely worth finishing for me.
i'm surprised, because i tend to enjoy classics, but in this case 120 pages seemed like an eternity.
... in the Sea of Time by S.M. Stirling
Lord of the Isles by David Drake
Dolphin Island by Arthur C. Clarke
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
All books I've read (can you see my bias towards SF?) although I only own two at ...
...
when I think of Science-Fiction I think of science, time travel, alternate histories, mad scientists, explorers, inventors, The Island of Dr. Moreau , Frankenstein, The Time Machine, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, H. G. Wells, and the like.
When I think of Fantasy I think of wizards, ...
...
when I think of Science-Fiction I think of science, time travel, alternate histories, mad scientists, explorers, inventors, The Island of Dr. Moreau , Frankenstein, The Time Machine, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, H. G. Wells, and the like.
When I think of Fantasy I think of wizards, ...
... the Horror/tecno side with the classics as a first step. H.G.Wells wrote some fantastic stuff of this type such as The Island of Dr Moreau and The Time Machine as well as loads of short stories with strong horror themes The Cone is one that comes to mind.
For 'Classic' classics try- ...
I finished the Invisible Man today. Wells is a great author, I can't wait to start the Island of Dr. Moreau next week. In the meantime, I'm enjoying Trial of Socrates and Cicero: the Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician.
My favorite part of Cicero so far, is this:
"Given no ...
Hi. During my research for obscure illustrations of The Island of Dr. Moreau I found an interesting site devoted to War of the Worlds H.G. Wells.
http://drzeus.best.vwh.net/wotw/wotw.html
I used it to cross reference illustration styles and find artists that way. I have found that the ...
... the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade
34 When the Sleeper Wakes
35 28 Great Inaugural Addresses
36 The Island of Dr. Moreau
37 Lost
38 Mirror, Mirror
39 the Chronicles of the Chrestomanci, Volume 1
40 the Chronicles of the Chrestomanci, Volume 2
41 Cicero: the Lif ...
... – This Side of Paradise
2003: Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim
2004: H. G. Wells – The Invisible Man & The Island of Dr. Moreau (own)
2004: Willa Cather – My Antonia (own)
2004: W. Somerset Maugham – The Moon and Sixpence
2005: H.G.Wells – The War ...
... I really like from this list:
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Color of Distance
Paris in the Twentieth Century
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Chrysalids
The Gate to Women's Country
Brave New World
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Fahrenheit 451
The White Pla ...
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60. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Tags: 1890s, sci-fi, fiction, U.K.
Rating: ★★★1/2
Enjoyed this one much more than War of the Worlds , which I also read ...
I picked this up on a whim when Blindness (my then current read) proved to be ...
