I just got done reading H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, which is over 100 years old. What a brilliant wordsmith, such an imagination, great detail that makes you believe it, feel it and see it, he really knew how to put the reader right there. Back when it came out, it must have made people almost forget they didn't have air conditioning. I recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it, and to those who read it long ago, to re-read it. The man had talent.
