Dawn Yapps about books
Todays book: the Invisible Man
The Invisible Man is a fun book because you see grown adults making sure there isn’t a ghost in the room. Also HG Wells put a lot more thought into the invisibility than I thought he would like it genuinely surprised me!
Like Griffin (we never get his full name) discovers that every part of the human body is slightly transparent save for blood, all he has to figure out is how to turn blood invisible and lower the opacity on his whole body. That's legit so cool, I was fully expecting the explanation to just be a potion he concocted.
The movie (which is fucking insanely impressive for the 1930s) says that the chemicals that turned Griffin invisible also turned him insane, but in the book he's a jerk even before becoming transparent and the way he’s treated after (much of it very much deserved) sours him it’s a fun character arc.
The ending is very fitting, Griffin tries to kill a guy who wronged him and the same crowd that he wanted to subjugate beats him to death. Also in the book he has albinism, which I kinda wish was the modern depiction of him.
The way the book is written around Griffin is also really really cool. The narrator gives the perspective of a different character each chapter, but it NEVER gives the perspective of Griffin. We only know what he’s doing based on what other characters perceive, so even to the goddamn audience he’s invisible.