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sallytreanor 's review for:
The War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells
This was a fun read after years of contemporary sci-fi. I wasn't the biggest fan of the narrative structure, which felt sluggish and didn't necessarily benefit from a first person perspective. Nevertheless it was a delight to see the origins of so many tropes, and to think about how those tropes have been transformed to accommodate contemporary settings. It almost made me wish that film adaptations had attempted to set the novel in its original time period, rather than contemporizing it.