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The Door in the Wall And Other Stories

The Door in the Wall And Other Stories H G Wells 9781468044485 Books

I never finished the first story which is "The door in the wall". This couldn't be more dull if it was written in a dead language. Choosing between this book and watching paint dry is a toss-up. I can't understand the reviewers who think that Wells is a gifted writer. He certainly has a wonderful imagination and he has succeeded in putting that down on paper and I congratulate him for it His imaginative novels have earned him an esteemed place in literary history. BUT, he is NOT A GREAT WRITER! His style is laborious to read. His prose is not art. His characters are not vivid. He establishes little or no emotional connection with the reader. In short, he is boring!

Product details Paperback 396 pages Publisher CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 12, 2011) Language English ISBN-10 1468044486

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The Door in the Wall And Other Stories H G Wells 9781468044485 Books Reviews

H.G. Wells-the best sci-fi writer of them all! ( although I am a great fan of Ray Bradbury too! )\
All of these stories were wonderful to read. I enjoyed them very much. I really enjoy sci-fi in short story form. The authors get to the point without so much verbiage.
Wells' "The Door in the Wall" continues the tradition begun by FitzJames O'Brien with his "The Lost Room." Other additions include "The Green Door" by O. Henry and the 1956 song "The Green Door" by Jim Lowe. All follow a similar path while being unique and interesting.
Some stories are dated. Overall good, especially the DOOR.
For a long time I have liked H. G. Wells's story "The Door in the Wall," and here I get that one as well as others. A good read.
I only hope other people will say they like my stories as much as I do these.

Kilmore Trout A satirical tribute to Kurt Vonnegut a satirical novella

Greyda the Great and other Tails A Cats Tale the cutest stories ever
These eight stories were better than I remembered them. In these stories, Wells wrote mainly about the time he lived in, and he is very capable of bringing the reader back to the time and helping them to see just what it was like. From a historical perspective, fascinating.

The plots are intriguing, and the characters are believable. Unlike Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who I think was only able to bring Holmes and Watson to life and found it difficult to write about other characters, Wells creates numerous characters that come alive.

Even the Country of the Blind, which I never liked much before, was interesting not just as a story but as a provocative statement on culture, religion and science.

I loved this book and highly recommend it.
Published in 1911, this is an anthology of HG Wells short stories. An admix of sci-fi and fantasy it provides a quick read of some pretty decent short stories. Usually grim in some fashion and hopeful on the other, we get a good taste of both of Wells inherent story qualities. With many cases seeing the hope thwarted but attached to the question well, was that truly a disaster?

Most of the stories come to some unfortunate and / or tragic end. Certainly not a `rainbow and sunshine' collection, one could find the lack of happy endings objectionable. However, there's often some element of humanity, possibly humor (Lord of The Dynamos), attached to the stories major motif.
Definitely recommended for anyone with a grim disposition and whom may also enjoy a degree of sci-fi reading material.

Stories full of human and fantastic fables, each tale leaves you wondering something, or spinning new stories off of it!

Included
01. A Door in The Wall. (4-star)
02. The Star. (3-star)
03. A Dream of Armageddon. (2-star)
04. The Cone. (5-star)
05. A Moonlight Fable. (5-star)
06. The Diamond Maker. (3-star)
07. The Lord of The Dynamos. (5-star)
08. The Country of The Blind. (4-star) (3.875 stars)

A Door in the Wall - Wells makes Wallace's story so believable, his wish so real... one only hopes his garden was behind the unlocked shaft door where he met his fate.

The Cone - While Raut knows the entire time that Horrocks knows he's pursuing his wife, there is very little inkling that Horrocks is intending murder. From one side it would be of interest to see Horrocks' stream of conscience up to the murder and his life in more detail after he'd delivered what one may assess as the `coup de gras'. And still the entire time, we receive the victims point of view, and wonder why ignore everything you felt?

A Moonlight Fable - I fancy this one in many ways to be related to sleep-walking in some fashion. Read JD Sadger for more as it relates to the psychotherapy of moon-walking. A charming story about destruction. The end of a suit; the end of a young man's life.

Lord of the Dynamos - excellent writing, Wells is again so believable, primes a reader so well to be pliant to the narrative he wishes to use to create the stream. Halroyd is sheer evil. His slave needs something to live for, he fixates upon the generators - the dynamos - and gradually begins to go mad. Fantastic! But again, continuing the motif of many of the stories, the end result is tragedy.

SPOILERS

A Door in The Wall
In this story we meet the second-handed story teller, Redmond, who is recounting a story told him by a long time friend and colleague, Lionel Wallace. The story is very fantastical in nature, unbelievable Redmond would have you believe, but still he postulates, having know Wallace for quite a duration - that the story is in fact true, even if it is unverifiable.

As a young man Wallace found a Green door on a white wall. He ventured through and found a world of unimaginable beauty and kind soothing people. He ventured through this door only once and then led a life tied to his duties, ignoring the door upon the rare occasions where it presented itself and its awkward locations at the most stressful and inopportune of times.

Wallace with his frustrations running high and a promise to himself to step through the door should he ever find it again, reveals that he's a night-walker (and a Cabinet Minister) - wandering about the landscape searching and lamenting for the door under the cover of dark.

Toward the end of the story Redmond reveals the details of Wallace's death. He had apparently found the green door, maybe a trick of the light, and Wallace had gone through this door and fell down what was essentially a mine-shaft. The question remains, was Wallace's death in vain, or did he indeed find his peace again behind that door?

The Star
In what could be considered a sci-fi short classic we see Earth's population as they witness a small planet collide with Neptune. The doomsayers emerge and a mathematician calculates that the two collided planets will soon plow through Jupiter. Once this is complete the trajectory, because of centripetal force, will draw the combined planets on a course right straight into the sun. Standing between the two is Earth - as the panic ensues because `it's nearer!' (293) the inhabitants of Earth prepare for cataclysmic events - tides, earthquakes, monstrous storms, etc. Despite this pending doom life continues onward in fashion status quo.

Millions die in this event, another brotherhood is formed to salvage the ruins of the history of mankind. Neatly, Wells briefly alludes to what the Martian scientists thought as they witnessed Earth get brushed by the burning mass of stars. This could be a story, spring-off, in and of itself.

A Dream of Armageddon
Relaying his experience of a dream to a stranger, our protagonist tells a tale of falling in love with a forbidden woman, thoroughly in love. However, he also in some regards abandoned his native country. In finding out that his successor was up to no good, essentially starting a war in a land that knew not what `war' was, he finds himself somewhat torn between love and duty to his country. He chooses to be with the woman of his dreams `Nothing... shall send me back. Nothing! I have chosen. Love, I have chosen, and the world must go.' (645) The story-tellers counterpart succinctly hits upon the moral of the story - `It is love and reason, fleeing from all this madness of war.' (708) His love is lost, then so is he and the dream concludes but with an air of sadness which lingers afterward in our protagonists waking hours.

The Cone
Having been snuck upon by Mr. Horrocks while he was entertaining his wife, Raut is soon invited upon an adventure to the smelting towers where Horrocks has been conducting experiments with light. Having risen above one of the cones (a type of exhaust assist) Raut fears his adversary knows of his interests in Mrs. Horrocks. Guessing right and continuing onward Raut is aggressed by Horrocks who watches him burn from the steam driven outward by the cone. Glee then guilt, Horrocks can only deliver the mercy blow. A brutal short.

A Moonlight Fable
A young man has made for him by his mother a suit, a lovely suit, with buttons covered in tissue paper so that they may never tarnish - and this suit is to be his `wedding day' suit, however he is allowed to wear it on special occasions, e.g. church. However, one late night as the moon shines in his window the young boy dons his treasured suit to be dressed appropriately for a world bathed in silver. Through the brambles and briars, the pond, dust and mud his suit becomes tarnished, ripped and bedraggled. Our young man however meets an untimely end - crumpled, broken at the bottom of a stone pit. One wonders, how much of this event was the result of somnambulance?

The Diamond Maker
World weary and nearly done with it, a man encounters another on a bridge before a scenic vista in London. The latter says that he's a diamond maker - yes, maker - as in completely fabricated, synthetic - but real. Our protagonist, naturally is hard-pressed to believe a word of it and inquires some of the diamond maker - a disheveled man, dirty, in thread bare clothing. He became this apparition due to the nature he used to create his diamonds - pressure and an explosive admixture. Being found out he was labeled an anarchist by the police, he's on the lamb, and no self-respecting jeweler will buy his wares. Ultimately the parties go their own ways without exchanging the diamond for the hundred pounds that was sought. Wells does a fantastic job making the scenario believable, and the strung-out diamond maker as well.

The Lord of The Dynamos
Azuma-zi, a negro who is effectively the slave of James Halroyd, is a godless creature. Impressionable he comes into the care of Halroyd. Unaffectionately called `Poo-Bah' by the illiterate Halroyd, demeaned and punished in a variety of ways - but all the while taught the infrastructure of the dynamos (generators, 3 - one big, 2 small) he and Halroyd watched after, Azuma-zi grows to assimilate the dynamo as his God, his reason for living, being. He is even punished by Halroyd for this upon various occasions. Gradually it begins to appear the big dynamo favors Azuma-zi and it suggests that - to escape his abusive predicament and position beneath Halroyd's thumb, that Azuma-zi kill him. Enabling, precisely re-routing the current - investigators find Halroyd deceased. Azuma-zi is innocuous and thereby passes by investigators for all definition, unnoticed. Until he thinks that they big dynamo might want another sacrifice - a failed effort on someone else so he martyred himself.

The Country of The Blind
Having wandered into a country, isolated, in which the faculty of sight has been gone for 14 generations (25*14=350), and this after a few generations decline, we meet Nunez (called `Bogota'). Having had fallen down a cliff face in an avalanche he encounters the people from the legendary `Country of The Blind'. Setting himself vainly upon being their leader - `In the country of the blind, the one eyed man is king.' (1376) - he is unsettled by their lack of fear and that fact they believe he was made from the rocks, is newly formed and like an infant - learning the ways of the world, and that for his cooperation, he is still an idiot. Nunez soon falls in love with his keepers youngest daughter, Medina-sarote. Betrothed to be, but on a condition - Nunez must have his eyes removed, they are what is making him abnormal, he talks all this strange business about `seeing', which nobody understands.
Nunez soon forsakes his love and departs to the highest point in the cliff face he can reach. Laughing mildly as he reiterates `In the country of the blind, the one eyed man is king.'
Interesting that the only advantage sight provided Nunez occurred during an isolated fist fight.
I never finished the first story which is "The door in the wall". This couldn't be more dull if it was written in a dead language. Choosing between this book and watching paint dry is a toss-up. I can't understand the reviewers who think that Wells is a gifted writer. He certainly has a wonderful imagination and he has succeeded in putting that down on paper and I congratulate him for it His imaginative novels have earned him an esteemed place in literary history. BUT, he is NOT A GREAT WRITER! His style is laborious to read. His prose is not art. His characters are not vivid. He establishes little or no emotional connection with the reader. In short, he is boring!