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Summary: SIMPLY MUST BE READ
Review: This is a classic that simply must be read. Even if you're not a sci-fi fan read it and love it. The first, and perhaps best, sci-fi book. It originally scared the Victorian readership who first read it, HG Wells was decades before his time. What we would see now as naivity just adds to the charm. What makes it so original is the time setting, its like Pride and Prejudice mixed with Independence Day! The book reads like some kind of formal diary made by a Victorian gent, observing the 'cylinder' as they crash from Mars, meeting the Curate, and generally fleeing around London. That is what makes it seem all so real, the place names are just local areas around the capital. Superb...apart from the ending.
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Summary: THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL EVER WRITTEN!
Review: IN FACT, ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS IN ALL OF LITERATURE! MODERN SCI-FI WRITERS, OR OTHER CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS IN OTHER GENRES, CAN'T HOLD A CANDLE TO VISIONARY WELLS.
A 100-STAR BOOK!
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Summary: Detailed suspenseful analysis of invasion
Review: This was an interesting book to read in that we only got close enough to the main characters, but yet the focus remained on the reactions to the Martians. This is a very detailed book and sometimes you're reading more about the landscape and destruction than the characters or the Martians. But it is almost like a real life perspective seen through the eyes of a person trying to flee the Martians. I wished Wells had reined in the ending a little more efficiently, but it was still a fun book to read.
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Summary: BETTER THAN I THOUGHT
Review: Before reading the book, I saw the movie--the old 50-ish style one that they play on American Movie Classics every now and then. Personally, I thought that the movie was pretty good. Then I turned to the book that started it all. There are MANY differences between the movie and the book. For example, in the movie, the martians have these flying saucer things with strange golf-club-like protrusions. In the book, a martian machine is a hooded portion atop a tripod of legs--see the book cover above. The book does have its slow moments, but most of that is due to the sometimes difficult writing style of the time. The technology of the book was dreadfully primitive--I assume that the setting for the book was pre-WWII? One part that I didn't care for was when they managed to hit one of the martian machines and kill it--made them seem weaker than they really were. Another point that I keep hearing about is this: Why does it take place in England, London, etc? The answer: H.G. Wells was born, raised and died in England, so OF COURSE he set his story in England. America isn't always the center of the world, folks. Unlike the movie, the book does a much better job of explaining how the martians become defeated, how the people are reacting to the events. I don't know about you, but I found the characters very human in this book. Who can forget the scene where the artillery-man and the main character are gambling off London while they sit in a decimated building? In my final analysis, I wouldn't say that this is the best sci-fi book ever written--I prefer Dune, personally--but this is definitely in the top 10 or 20.
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Summary: Every Word Is a Literary Masterpiece!
Review: This is definitley one of the greatest books of all time. It is incisive, suspenseful, influential, and undeniably a classic. It really makes you think. I was amazed at how H.G. Wells was able to imagine something like this back in the 1800's. A great book that ironically reminds us of how badly we've mistreated our own world and how we rush to protect it when someone ELSE tries to destroy it. Lastly, I must make this clear: If you do not have good grammar, don't even attempt picking this book up.
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Summary: Mrs. Days Book Review
Review: I loved this book in more ways than just one. It had a feeling as if you felt every emotion and movement that happend to this poor professor let alone the many other people that he described. the book had amazing detail and was very intresting in a sense that this could very well happen from the descriptions that wells made in this book. It couldnt get any better than it is. It made me want to keep turning the pages for hours and the great detail made it easy for me to give this book five stars.
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Summary: The best sci-fi ever!
Review: Our family read The War of the Worlds for our April book club meeting. After discussing the book, we listened to a recording of Orson Wells' original radio broadcast, which caused listeners great terror when it first aired in the 1930s. (The broadcast is available on cd from Amazon.com.) The following evening, we watched the 1953 film classic. In a related assignment, my son wrote: A cylinder falls from space onto Horsell Common, an area some miles from London. One night later, the cylinder opens, unleashing a tragedy on three metal legs. Is it possible that we can destroy these beings from Mars before they destroy us? A few years before I read the complete, unabridged story, I read an abridgement. Today, I read the full version with the same excitement that I did the child's illustrated edition. I enjoy this kind of classic sci-fi; it was a terrific addition to my collection of books. I hope other people are as enchanted with the book as I am.
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Summary: Review for "The War of the Worlds" by Andrew Lovas
Review: The novel "The War of the Worlds," was an exciting book. It had a lot of suspense and was actually pretty esay to follow like many of H. G. Well's novels. It had a great background idea about it. When this novel was first written it was the first ever to express the idea that there was life somewhere else in the universe besides Earth. The aliens embrace themselves for war against the human race. They our much stronger and have a lot better technology than us. As the novel keeps going it gets more and more exciting for the simple fact that you will get worried about the future of mankind. I would recomend this to people that really enjoy reading science ficion novels and who have read a novel by H. G. Wellls before. It is a very old book but it is pretty entense throughout its duration. So if you get a chance to read it you should give it a try.
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Summary: The greatest space novel ever!!!
Review: A great space novel! The Greatest space novel ever!!! All of the action begins when a huge cylinder lands on Earth. Two more cylinders crash land on Earth and then more action breaks loose. Giant alien robots with heat rays everywhere!! A must read novel for all sci-fi fans.
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Summary: A great space novel!!!
Review: A great space novel! The greatest space novel ever! All of the action begins when a huge cylinder lands on Earth. Two more cylinders crash land on Earth and then more action breaks loose. Giant alien robots with heat rays everywhere!! A must read for all sci-fi fans.
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