A review by manxomemia
The First H.G. Wells Omnibus: The Invisible Man/War of the Worlds/The Island of Dr Moreau by H.G. Wells

2.0

The issue I had with The War of the Worlds was the same issue I had with 1984: I didn't care about the protagonist. 1984 had the interesting world to make up for this, but I found that the premise of The War of the Worlds was not interesting enough to hold it's own for the entirety of a novel/novella. I enjoyed the first third quite a bit, but after that I realised that I probably would have enjoyed it more as a short story. I can understand why this is such a well-known book, given when it was written, but in the twenty-first century, I didn't find it all that interesting.