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Having rediscovered that Wells is a fantastic writer, I queued him up again pretty quickly. Bless you nameless myriads at Project Gutenberg and similar, for making this and other public domain books free and instantly available!

So, what happens if a sociopath manages the trick of invisibility? Well, first we get an invisible cat, which delights me no end, loathe as I am to inconvenience the visible ones who hinder me from reading. Fortunately, for all his skill as a researcher, Griffin is kind of an idiot. He's no Moriarty, he's more Clyde Barrow who was really aggressive and a bad bank robber. Wells enables us to imagine the horror of the landlady who's suspicious of her odd off-season guest, and then the whole village on fair day, and then, the game goes even farther afield.

It's a good story, lots of moments to ponder "what would I do?" as either a villain or a hero, some comedy, some swashbuckling, and all while remaining true to the chosen character and plausible scientifically. Not bad for a book published in 1897.

More Wells. I think he's gaining on Shakespeare and Austen as my favorite classic authors.

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