The Passionate Friends

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Gary Williams

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Same old wishy washy lazy writing of Wells' later works.

Unfortunately another forgettable novel by an author that started out with a lot of potential. Once again the novel has a flimsy frame story but is really just a bunch of loosely connected essays about socialism. Jules Verne may have been old fashioned, but at least he had the finesse to spin a good yarn and leave the reader inspired. Wells' later catalog is all about quantity over quality. There were some interesting ideas and history, but mostly it's just the same old tedious random brainstorming.