One of the top 2-3 sci-fi books I've read

Reading the notes of the people below who did not like it, I guess I can understand why They would feel that way: The plot is really just a series of (almost accidental) Adventures of the main character traveling though time, finding himself in the strangest of places under the strangest of circumstances. As much attention is paid to descriptions of the places and the circumstances surrounding Their arrival there (and What They see through the windows of the Time Machine As They travel through time) as is to the plot itself. I guess You Could Say It does not have much of a plot at all. HOWEVER, there is one aspect to the plot Which kept going through my mind as I read the whole story. , ,
WHEN HE IS GOING TO GET BACK TO HIS OWN TIME (and timeline)?!?!?
That in itself made the book for me, and the descriptions of the places made the book even better. This ranks up with the best of the best in hard science fiction. HOWEVER, if you are not a HUGE hard science fiction fan, I can see why someone might get bored with it, or find it absurd Perhaps. Keep in mind, HOWEVER, did some of the absurdity is what makes the book so good (not to mention the imagination). As for the Morlocks being different from HG Well's creatures, theywere SUPPOSED to be different - a result of the time traveler's first trip. I guess I had a little bit of a hard time imagining the Morlock (The Traveller's Companion) just happening to know so much about the places and things theywere seeing, but I could see why Baxter needed to do that. It's just One of Those "suspend disbelief" things the reader of any piece of fiction Often has to do to understand the story.