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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
Surprisingly good. I downloaded this on iBooks (woot, free reading!) because I needed something to read on the train. Quickly got into the story (besides the 'famous title' and knowing there'd be aliens I didn't really know anything about the book). While, considering the events the story describes, there's not as much action as you might expect I enjoyed reading a pretty realistic tale of how things could unfold were there ever to be an invasion on earth.
Well-deserved to be considered all-time classic. Hell, it's such a ride of reading experience. Swift and wasting no time to dilly-dally with irrelevant conversation, the narratives are vivid and remarkably terrifying. Definitely a five-star level, or even more.
adventurous
dark
hopeful
tense
medium-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
Wells is an author I've come to enjoy. Yet, this one fell a bit short for me. I couldn't get attached to the main character or any others. The story felt mechanical. Of course, it being action-driven is understandable only slightly, for me. I really love getting invested with characters. It gets me further invested and is a good percentage to making the book that much better.
I remember my mom telling me about the radio broadcast of this book and how several listeners grew so afraid that there was a mass hysteria and families went into hiding, thinking there was an actual invasion happening. In all honesty, the book really reads like a play-by-play so I get it.
Full Review:
https://thescarletreaderreviews.wordpress.com/2020/05/10/hide-your-wife-hide-your-kids-the-war-of-the-worlds-a-book-review/
I remember my mom telling me about the radio broadcast of this book and how several listeners grew so afraid that there was a mass hysteria and families went into hiding, thinking there was an actual invasion happening. In all honesty, the book really reads like a play-by-play so I get it.
Full Review:
https://thescarletreaderreviews.wordpress.com/2020/05/10/hide-your-wife-hide-your-kids-the-war-of-the-worlds-a-book-review/
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Really enjoyed this book, happy about the lack of Tom Cruise doing Tom Cruise things.
Good for the first of it's kind. You can tell why it is a classic and it's age
It's good. A little dated for a book that takes place before cars were abundant, but still good.
I read about 2/3 of the book and then listened to the last third on eBook . Great narrator on the ebook. I'm glad I watched the movie as it made visualizing the detailed descriptions of the aliens much easier. This is supposedly one of the first science fiction books written and certainly took a vivid imagination. Very much enjoyed the story of the narrator's experience during this invasion although convenient that he was also able to tell the story from his brother's perspective since he was in hiding for a good two weeks of the event playing out.
Some say that true science fiction must involve real science. Wells set that precedent with his works. But while I had trouble with the influx of science in the first book, it is more organically used in this book, which is told from the point of view of a philosopher in the midst of writing when the first martian cylinder arrives. He survives the chaos wrought by the martians and their deadly heat rays. Through his eyes, we see the human struggle for survival -- the fight, flight, or succumb instinct.
The most fascinating thing about Wells' writing is that he spends no time on characterization. Indeed, characters aren't even named, much less described. Those details are unimportant, yet through the narrator's eyes, we gain so much.
Even more fascinating? Wells wrote all of these out-of-this-world tales long before humanity ever took to the skies.
The most fascinating thing about Wells' writing is that he spends no time on characterization. Indeed, characters aren't even named, much less described. Those details are unimportant, yet through the narrator's eyes, we gain so much.
Even more fascinating? Wells wrote all of these out-of-this-world tales long before humanity ever took to the skies.