Reviews - The war of the worlds

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The war of the worlds

H.G. Wells

3.6 AVERAGE

sasha_saori's review against another edition

3.25

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

The War of the Worlds is an important pieces of early science fiction. Featuring a premise that at the time of its publishing in 1898 was considered unique and groundbreaking-the story of an attempted invasion of the Earth by technologically advanced Martians.

While the legacy and impact of such a work can never be understated, it is ultimately the age of such a piece that serves as its down fall. The War of the Worlds is an instance in which a work of literature-this time from the late Victorian era-has aged poorly.

Because of that age I found The War of the Worlds to be an extremely slow and at times frustrating read due to the slow narrative pace, something that is further accentuated by Victorian style writing that can make a single sentence feel like a paragraph.

simonem7's review against another edition

4.0

dark reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

boekenmol's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

mida_x's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Kind of a cop out ending in my opinion… why can’t we have tragedy and the destruction of the human race? Is it truly necessary for us to prevail? We’re not always the greatest thing around, and I believe that the ending of the book is a very human-centric, master species choice.

But other than that it was very well written and interesting so you know… bygones.

ryanbourdeau's review against another edition

3.75

hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

killerwhat's review against another edition

Interesting mainly for being set in Surrey and London around places I know, and for being written so long ago, with horse-drawn carriages and men wearing hats. Not bad.

bilbobookins's review against another edition

3.0

Opening Line: No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.