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Summary: Wells wrote one heck of a book
Review: Wells wrote a great story that has been redone so many times now. It wasn't written in the 50's as many people might think. It was actually written in the 1890's. And Wells creates a story about Alien Invasion that is so scary and well put together. It has Martian's coming to corral the humans. And the humans at first have no way to beat them. They keep getting beat and it almost seems as if we are going to be killed at any moment only for the humans to come out on top. A great Victorian style novel that stands the test of time (a la Independence Day). Though this book is ten times better than Independence Day. A great sci-fi book that will forever be the blueprint for Alien Invasion novels or movies.
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Summary: Spectacular...simply amazing!!!
Review: The war of the Wolrds, written by H,G. Wells, was one of the best books I have ever read. No other book I've read has said so much detail in a way that still made the story enjoyable and not completely boring. Reading the book, I felt as if I was with the narrator and with him through all the action. The story's plot is intricate and compelling with no pauses or dull moments. I rarely wanted to put the book down becuase I always wanted to know what would happen next. Many times, when the suspense was at its pinacle, I would have to sit at the edge of my seat. This is an amazing book written by a genius author. This is one of the greatest martian books of all time. I defenently recomend this to all who read this resoponse. If you are into alians and sci-fi stories, I garuntee you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: The War of the Worlds Review
Review: I liked this book because no matter where the narrator was or what he was doing he always explained it throughly. He always told you why he was doing something, how he was doing it, and what he wanted the outcome to be. And once he was through doing the project or activity he told you what or how it turned out. He also told what others were doing in the story. He never left you wondering about what the enemy was doing if he was able to tell. This is more of an explanation fantasy book rather than lots of action.I believe that the best part of the book would be when the main character and the Curate were trapped in the fallen down house. It gave the reader a sense of just how immense their problem with the Martians was. It was also fascinating because they were trapped right beside one of the Martians' headquarters. The narrator explained the way of the Martains and how they go about their buisness. It told of the complexe machines and their looks and behavior. Overall I would say that this was the best and most interesting part of the book. The two elements of the book that were most vivid to me were the conflict between character vs. character, and setting. The conflict was easy to realize because that was about the only thing that the narrator talked about besides the setting. He really influenced the trouble that the human race was in against the Martians. He emphasized how meaningless and useless our ways were and are when something of unimaginable power takes over. The setting was also vivid to me because all through the book the author explained and told where he was. He really explained the scenery and incorporated the setting into the story.
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Summary: War Of The Worlds
Review: War of the Worlds
By H.G. Wells
September 20, 2002
During the summer I read the best book yet. War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells is a science fiction novel that explains the existence of extra terrestrial beings on the planet Mars. This story dates back into 1882. These 2 men who live in England are observers in an observatory that have observed suspicion things going on, on the planet mars. Every night at about Midnight they see a very gassy object shooting out of the planet mars. My favorite part of the book is when one of the gassy objects land on earth. One morning in that town that the observers lived in, one of the objects they saw landed about a couple of miles from they there own town. It was a giant cylinder. It was very hot and the bottom was still red. A couple of hours later the top of the cylinder opened and a thing came out. I cant tell you what came out you are going to have to read it your self. This was a great novel to read over the summer and it was very interesting. I highly recommend this book to people who are into sci-fi books and alien encounters. When I started to read this book it was boring because the author had to set the setting and tell what's going on, but it got better later on in the book. It turned out to be the best book yet.
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Summary: review on war of the worlds
Review: I enjoyed this book and would recomend it to any of my friends, teachers, or any one else I knew. I believe that H.G Wells is saying a few thing in this book, one thing I think he is saying in this book is that the marsians atacking the human race is much like the human race invading the wildlife and habitat of animals. I think that he is also saying that the world should be prepared for anything and everything, especialy natural disasters. One other thing I believe he is saying is that god has total control over the world and he will do as he please. In closing, if you are thinking of reading this book, do it, it will be benefitial to you.
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Summary: Tyson Browns book review
Review: The war of the worlds is an ok book; but it wasn't that good because through the whole book people were mostly running and hiding and running some more. At the beginning of the book the author is just telling us that the people are being watched. How is that supposed to get a readers attention? If a writer is writing a book, he or she needs to make the first few pages interesting to the reader, not telling us that something is watching people. A writer needs to put a little bit of action in a book if the cover looks like that the book is going to be an action packed book. Then the next ten pages in the book after the beginning the people in the book are running because they don't want to die. During this part of the book the writer is just describing that the people are running from these alian invaders. After this the people reach London. They spend about a day there and then they are running again. After the people fled from London they reached this island in the middle of nowhere. They think that they are safe until the invaders come and capture or kill everyone and everything in their path. Only a few people are left living by the end of the the book. I just think that Wells could have done a better job on this book. Anyway, the war of the worlds turned out to be a good book while it lasted.
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Summary: a fourteen year old kid
Review: I think that this book is ok. It could use a little more action than just people running and hiding. But still it was a good book. This book is a little slow at first but then it speeds up. I personally think that it could go a little faster at the beginning.
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Summary: A Good Book with a Few Major Let Downs
Review: I am writing this report about the War of the World, by H.G. Wells. This book had everything it needed to be one of my favorite books of all time. It had an original plot-line (when the book was written) about aliens invading earth. The book also had a good character, namely the main character, who was a journalist. He was smart, had a will and the luck to survive, and was a very learned man. In the book I saw a global alliance, with the whole world united for the first time to fight off the alien tide. Britain was all but taken over, but four aliens died, which proved that the extra-terrestrials were not invulnerable. I pictured an epic story, with huge battles of man versus alien, the humans against manufactured machines. The aliens had flying machines, but the humans could have found a way to fight that. But in the end the aliens would win, through force of technology. Then the artilleryman came into the picture. He thought he knew everything about what would happen to the world. After the aliens took over, (which in his mind was inevitable) the world would split into three types of people. One type would be the weak people of the world, who would give in to the aliens. They would live in cages and be used as livestock. The second kind would be fighters, using guerilla tactics. They would be inevitably killed. The third kind that the artilleryman was proposing to start, would live a free, independent life from the aliens. They would live in the sewers, slowly learning the aliens' ways. Finally they could rise up and defeat the invaders. At this part in the story, (while the main character was talking to the artilleryman) I was shivering with anticipation. Think about it: underground, hiding, keeping human traditions alive, and finally, one glorious day, rising up and defeating the invaders! Just then, reality set in. There were only five more pages left in the book. I did not like this book because of the way in which it ended. I was not satisfied as a reader when the author just ended the book when it was becoming interesting. I think the ending ruined my enjoyment of the book as a whole because a lot of my pleasure in reading it was the anticipation, suspense, and looking to the future. I would recommend this to anyone who likes a good, short, story, and doesn't like to read long books. I would not recommend it to anyone who prefers long, complicated story-lines and is not satisfied with a 100 page book that should have been 500 pages long. On the whole, I disliked this book because of how the author let me down by not following through with the plot.
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Summary: Typical
Review: If I were a reader in the year 1900 this story would prove incredibly interesting and new. It would be unlike any other book. And it was unlike any other book, and it was basically the beginning of science fiction. But I have seen too many lame black and white movies about zombies and vampires and dinosaurs from Mars to fully appreciate this book. The War of the Worlds was no doubt what spawned the fear of Martians, therefore creating the corny black and white movies. With modern science fiction authors like Robert Heinlein and Frank Herbert, H. G. Wells and his attackers from Mars just aren't as interesting. Yes, it is an exciting book. Yes, I would say it is well written. Yes, I have to give him credit because it was the beginning of science fiction. But to the modern science fiction fan this is a typically lame story about attackers from Mars. I read this book because it is a classic science fiction novel. But like many classics, it is very out dated. Still interesting, but set in a time before we had black and white movies about little green men from Mars.
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Summary: Better than any of these modern day Hollywood hacks
Review: A little flying saucer lands in a small city in England. What turns out to be a mere curiosity turns into a full-scale invasion. Told from the story of one man, who survived this whole ordeal, this story reveals the Martians, the attempts to subdue the Martians, and the reaction of the human species. What is most marvelous about this book is that it was written in 1898, but with only a few minor modifications, you could have said it was written in 2002. The language is suprisingly modern, the plot is still as interesting as ever, and the human aspects of this book still resonate today. What impressed me about this book is that the events unfold through the eyes of one man. We, the readers, uncover the mysteries and horrors of the aliens as he does. We get to see the large the curious onlookers, the scared masses, the insane lonely man, the giant tripod machines scrounging around looking to kill, and the battles between human and alien. We feel his terror and awe as any man would during that crisis. This book isn't a timepiece, it isn't a love story, it concentrates on action, mystery, and suspense. It's a classic tale that Hollywood and other writers have borrowed upon time and time again. Unfortunately, none of the copies could stand up to this original. I would highly recommend this book, if just to see how an 1898 action book could entertain anyone today.
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