The first half of the book is labored, but when the Time Traveler reaches his epiphany about humanity, things pick up and it concludes with what I felt was a touching resolution. This is the last book I'll probably read for the year 2014. I went into it expecting very little, thinking that this would just be a perfunctory bit of exercise to reach my reading goal, but this was a fantastic send-off.

The way Wells expresses the socio-economic concerns is kind of simplistic and clumsy, but I would like to think the former student of Aldous Huxley's grandfather was well-intentioned, especially for a late 19th century writer. You can definitely see the beginnings of ideas that Huxley himself develops years later: the dangers of technology, economic inequality/stratification, and social complacency.