I've read this about 5 times. Every time I read it, I come away thinking H.G.W was talking about something totally different than the previous time I read it. LoL. I believe I enjoyed it better the 1st time, when I wasn't reading so much into it. 👍 Now I can't help but think other stuff when reading it. Great video. Excited 4 Mythos Monday 😁
Marvel based one of his characters in the Dr. Moreau. It was the High Evolutionary. Even the dog incident was reflected in the story. Only he was transplanted from victorian science-fiction into 60's, 70's science fiction.
I finally read “The Island of Dr. Moreau” last year after letting the book sit on my bookshelves for nearly fifty years (it’s a fifty cent paperback from Airmont Publishing). I quite liked it, though I didn’t enjoy it as much as “The Time Machine” or “In the Days of the Comet”. After reading it, I followed it up by reading another book that was tangentially inspired by it (in the sense of a man living in fear on an island) - “The Invention of Morel” by Adolfo Bioy Casares. Written in 1964, this latter book is not really a horror tale, but it is eerie and an excellent novella.
Couldn't agree more with your review. So much to think about and ponder in a relatively short book, which is what I like. I think it might be my favourite H.G. Wells work I've read.
I'm thinking this novel must have created quite a few shock waves upon its publication release during Wells' time. I just finished recently and enjoyed your review and thoughts.
I actually just read this not too long ago. I have had it for a while, and just never picked it up until I realized I could get through it in a single morning haha. Of course, it was just as good as I thought it would be.
Great review, I haven't read this one, but loved War of the Worlds and Time Machine. Never even occurred to me to check this out, probably due to a crappy movie I saw years ago! Sounds like a great read though.
I'm just about to start reading his The War in the Air...a first time read for me. I'm looking forward to revisiting Moreau soon -- I read it in my early twenties. Wells was a great and exciting writer, full of ideas and with so much to say about everything -- while those Big Five (I think it is) science fiction classics are ubiquitously known, his output was prodigious and followed the course of his life from the 1880s onward. I'm looking forward to finallyr eading some of his later books, even if they are more consumed by his politics and the passions of the day.
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 I haven't either! But I expect to start it in a few days. It's not part of the Sacred Wells "quintology" (not a real thing, of course) so naturally it always gets ignored by modern readers along with, oh, everything else Wells wrote after 1901 that isn't The Shape of Things to Come and *maybe* The World Set Free. The next chrononauts episode is about aviation so this is one of the airplane stories we have selected! now i am getting excited about airplanes! Who wouldnt' get excited about airplanes,r eally?
The doctor is like God, who is meddling with "his creation" but never taking responsibility for it. In fact, he blames his creation for the problems - it was a typical theme of many 1800's writers, i.e. versions of the absentee landlord. The conversation in Frankenstein of Victor and the monster is a fine piece of work, for comparison. "I expected this reception," said the dæmon. "All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends."
