The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells This is a novel by H. G. Wells I've never gotten around to until now. Perhaps because invisible people are a bit on the boring side. I mean how many things can you do while invisible until you get bored and say "What's the thrill?". H. G. Wells saw invisibility as a comment on Victorian values. Of course, the Victorians didn't have the internet or sexting to get their jollies off so invisibility may have came in handy. Perhaps we should have invisibility. Congressman Wiener might still be congressman if he was invisible. After all who would want a photo of an invisible Wiener? But I digress...

The Invisible Man feels like two books. In the first part, the viewpoint is of the townspeople and their reaction to the strange taped up gentleman. The reactions seem melodramatic to me and a bit of an anti-climax since the reader is fully aware of what is going on. I enjoyed the second part much more as the narration turned to Griffin's account on how he turned invisible and his unsuccessful attempt to reverse the peocess. Griffin becomes mentally unstable and this fuels the first real conflict in the novel. I would have preferred the novel to be entirely on Griffin's viewpoint. However I do not see this novel as one of Wells' better work despite its popularity.