Reviews - The war of the worlds

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The war of the worlds

H.G. Wells

3.6 AVERAGE

veriity's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

rowninisokay's review against another edition

1.0

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

Thank God it's over. This book is horrible. Sure it was cool to read something written so long ago, but that's about where my praise ends with it. With a plot so interesting in idea, the execution was so God awful it took me forever to slog through it. The action was almost non existant, the explanations of everything going on we're too long, and it made for a bad experience. I can say that the second half of the book is better than the first, but only in the same way that a headache is preferred to a migraine.

_0olivia0_'s review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark tense medium-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

dobunnii's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

wagnerw1's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

alexander_spellman's review against another edition

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

A zero is too good a grade for this hellspawn of a book. It took me a month, a month, to read 200 something pages. It was the worst piece of garbage I have seen in my life. This book single handily killed my joy of reading for multiple years.

You know a book is bad when the author use a whole chapter to explain, in an 18th century scientific way, how these aliens from mars are able to exist. It is the most dry, overexplained and boring chapter I have ever read. It reads like a research paper and is just not worth reading.

This book is split into two books and the last two chapters of book 1

is just about his brother, a person we have heard nothing about, and don’t care about at all.

And in the beginning of the next book he apologises for how the last book ended. You know it is bad when you feel the need to apologise in the beginning of the next book.

The second book is like 30-40 pages long and is just there to finish the story he got tired of writing, and the way it ends is not in a climax, not in a satisfying way or anything.

All the alians die because of bacteria. Bacteria?!

Sure it makes logical sense, but it isn’t satisfying at all, and it isn’t foreshadowed by anything, it isn’t talked about or mentioned, it isn’t even shown to us.

We just find them dead at the end.