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War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells

 
Description: ISBN 0141441038 / Author: H.G. Wells / Genre: Classic Literature

Newest Review: ... Wells came up a very memorable and novel idea. Despite the tremendous suspension of disbelief required to envisage creatures ... more

 ... from Mars invading in giant armoured tripods, Wells makes this a lot easier for the reader by setting his invasion in a "true" setting - certainly, far more realistic than many of the settings of the other, more-earth-bound invasion fantasies of the time. Wells places his invasion firmly in the Home Counties. Armed with an Ordnance Survey map of Woking, and his newly learned skill of cycling, Wells began writing the Martian's advance through his home town (Wells lived in Woking for eighteen months in the mid...more

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Jake+Speed
Premium Review War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells: The Falling Star (1084 words)
by - written on 29/01/08 (Very useful, 179 readings)
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"No one would have believed in the early years of the 21st century that our world was being watched by intelligences greater than our own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns, they observed and studied, the way a man with a microscope might scrutinize the creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency, men went to and fro about the globe, confident of our empire over this world. Yet across the gulf of space, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded our planet with envious eyes and slowly, and surely, drew their plans against us..." The War Of The worlds is one of the most famous ...  Read the complete review

DancingCopper
Crowned Review There was supposed to be an earth-shattering 'ka-boom' (752 words)
by - written on 29/11/08 (Very useful, 183 readings)
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It was 1986 when I first heard Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds - one hundred years exactly since Wells wrote the novel. I was ten years old, and Richard Burton's opening monologue stuck deeply into my brain. The unfolding plot combined with the eerie music to have a profound effect on me - I had nightmares, I couldn't listen to it if I was on my own and I absolutely had to read the novel. Since then, it's one of only a handful of books I've read several times, and I still have the same battered copy twenty years later. To feel passionate and enthusiastic about H.G. Wells' novel is easy but I don't want my over-excitement to lead to a ...  Read the complete review

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Crowned Review War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells: War in Woking (1287 words)
by - written on 27/11/06 (Very useful, 301 readings)
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After watching the awful Tom Cruise film last year, I promised myself I would read this. Or re-read it? I wasn’t really sure if I’d ever read it at all. So much of the story is familiar, and notorious, of course, from the panic caused by Orson Welles’ radio version in 1938. So a book, radio play and blockbuster film – it certainly seems to appeal to successive generations. The first thing that struck me was how short it was: 180 pages in a small Penguin paperback edition. Little more than a short story, really. Technically, I guess that given its restricted focus of plot, characters and timescale it is a novella, although this format is not common in ...  Read the complete review

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Premium Review The chances of anyone bettering this book are a million to o ... (794 words)
by - written on 24/06/09 (Very useful, 21 readings)
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For those who are only aware of Jeff Wayne or Steven Spielberg, this slim but eerie volume of late Victorian prose may come as a surprise. Just over 200 pages long (and originally serialised in "Pearons Magazine" in 1897), 1898's "The War of the Worlds" by HG Wells is effectively the great-granddaddy of every alien invasion story. And it reads like Thomas Hardy. The unrelenting reality strikes the reader from the very beginning, with that portentuous and famous "no one would have believed ... " first chapter. "War of the Worlds" was a novel written for various reasons, but perhaps most importantly it was a parody. In the ...  Read the complete review

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Premium Review War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells: My hat had gone! (Excerpt) (390 words)
by - written on 17/11/08 (Very useful, 55 readings)
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Overview War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel written ithe late 19th century. Generally regarded as a classic, it is noticable as being a very early and pioneering work of SF and one of the first ever depictions of an alien invasion of Earth. General Opinion I didn't like War of the Worlds. Classic novels have a rather odd position in which they are impervious to criticism. They stand aloft, their status assured. All this makes it difficult to write a critique of one. But that's no reason why I shouldn't try. Justification of dislike I understand War of the worlds. Its significance, its originality, how revolutionary it was ...  Read the complete review

 

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