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Summary: The Best Story Since David and Goliath
Review: The Tripods Trilogy was John Christopher's first attempt at writing for young people and it is a triumph. I was introduced to these books back in 1985, when I was 9. I was really taken with the cover artwork of "The White Mountains", which showed this giant three-legged machine and a boy hiding in the foreground.But I didn't actually read the books until four years later. I was obsessed with it! I loved the idea of a small rebel group fighting something that seemed so invincible. For ages I couldn't draw a landscape without putting a Tripod in it! These books got me interested in cities and how they'd look when they're destroyed. One of my favourite parts of the story is when the three boys are walking through the ruins of an ancient city. We all know what city it was and we recognise so much that is unfamiliar to them. It's both amusing and moving to see them ponder over the relics of a better time. These are a series of books I've read over and over. The praise for this trilogy is well deserved.
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Summary: Brilliant, never looked at a pylon the same way again.
Review: There was once a BBC telivision series of the Tripods, which was on TV in England when I was about four. The effects were, suprisingly, really good. So good in fact that I developed a mortal fear to electricity pylons because of it. I used to scream whenever my mother took me anywhere near them, believing them to be the giant, three legged machines of the books and series. At the age of eight I was only uneasy around them, and that was when I got my hands on the books. Sublime. A book for children of all ages. At the age of nineteen I still cannot look at a towering electricity pylon and not think of the tripods, sometimes with a shiver down my back!
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Summary: THE best books I have ever read... EVER.
Review: This book is a classic and tha most amazing book I have ever read. I stumbled upon it at a book stor and purchased it and liked it soooo much, I bought the next few books in the series, and am waiting to get the last one. This book is a must read and will never get old.
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Summary: BEST SCI FI BOOKS EVER!!!!
Review: This is an incredible story of how aliens came to earth and use man's technology and weakness of disbelief in each fellow man against him. Yet, through these "weaknesses" Will Parker, our headstrong hero, works to defeat the invadors and take back what is rightfully ours. Christopher's chhoice of main character is very intriguing. Will is not your typical hero, and is neither practical as his companion Fritz, nor daring as his cousin Henry, nor talented as his companion "Beanpole". The story come to life with lovable and realistic characters who encounter various obsticals on their way to defeating the terrible Tripods.
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