by H.G. Wells
As I mentioned in my last post, I'd like to thank Halloween Bingo (and OB & MR) for making me read those classic novels that I'd always intended to get to "someday". This book was fantastic, and Simon Vance's excellent narration made it even better. This is definitely one I'll revisit in the futur...
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 a...
Still my favourite book, still good after the umpteenth reread.
I think my expectations were a little too high for this one.The War of the Worlds was my first encounter with H.G. Wells, and I really hope I enjoy some of his other works more than this one. I think it was the POV that made it so difficult for me to get through and enjoy, because the narrator bored...
Here is a story from 1898, yet forecasting so much that waited for us in the next century. Wells' capacity of imagination is immense. He sounds like a man describing a very detailed nightmare. What struck me so strongly was not his grasp of alien civilization, though this story is, of course, deeply...
The audiobook of this that I listened to is available for free at LibriVox. The end of this book was a little more hopeful than I expected. It was already quite clear that our narrator was going to live, since he's narrating after the fact. Him living implies that the Martians either die or leave...
Classics have always been a toss up for me; either I’ll love them to pieces, or I’ll really, really hate reading them. And unfortunately for War of the Worlds, I just really couldn’t get into it. I felt like I was reading a short story, with all dialogue and fun stuff cut out, down to the bare narra...
Finally! Have been wanting to read this for so very long :)3½ stars really... Bordering on 4...Quite different from what I expected I had probably expected something more sombre and scientific, but instead got the bumbling tale of a probably rather unreliable narrator and semi-silly aliens :-)But I...
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As I was reading this, two thoughts struck me. The first was that this book was less about Martians than it was about how humanity views itself as the "Kings of the Earth". Mankind has always had this annoying tendency to think that whatever serves us is good and right, despite whatever injury is do...
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