A few weeks ago I mentioned a box of old books I pulled out of storage recently. This is another book that came out of that box. I read it 30-plus years ago and really enjoyed it, so now I'm re-reading it. They made a movie about it, starring Chevy Chase and Daryl Hannah, and while that movie is mildly entertaining, it is silly and has no substance. The novel has substance and meaning, but they leached the substance out of it when they made that mindless movie, which is nothing but fluff.
One thing about the concept of the invisible man: I've always thought that somebody who is invisible would also be blind. Invisibility means light passes unaffected through your body. Your body mass has no effect whatsoever on the light that passes through it. Therefore, the rods and cones and pupils and corneas and light receptors in your eyes would not pick up any of the information that is being conveyed in that light. Yet, in all of the fiction and cinema that deals with invisibility in the genres of science fiction and fantasy, that the invisible person would also be blind apparently has never occurred to anybody other than me. Including the author of this novel, although it is a very good novel. Imaginative and well thought out.
-- Ron
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