This book was amazing! It was a book I personally enjoyed. This is a book I would recommend teachers to use for reading or English class! This is a great YA book!
I could cut a long review short: 'The Tripod Trilogy' is a terrific sf series for the young ones, the darkest revelation of a post-tripod-conquest world is, obviously, that women don't matter at all. Where does that leave all the young men? I read these books when I was 11 or 12 and I can't remember...
Tripods are cool, imagine these fearsome engines stomping around your neighborhood. They are not very practical though are they? Three legs don’t seem to be a very stable locomotive arrangement. The aliens came from light years away can they not spring for some aircrafts or something on wheels? At l...
I remember reading this book eons ago for a science-fiction unit in fifth grade. I remember we created a class mural dealing with a science fiction city and we also had to write a short science fiction story. It was a fun unit, and I remember liking this book well enough. I don't know if I would rea...
After being immensely impressed by [b:The Death of Grass|941731|The Death of Grass|John Christopher|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1309962069s/941731.jpg|797220] by [a:John Christopher|2001324|John Christopher|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1223822566p2/2001324.jpg], I decided to start his "Tripods" s...
A really slow start but once the boys start on their journey to freedom and the white mountains, the story moves quickly along. I know this is the first in a series, but it ended in such a way that I'm satisfied and don't need to continue the adventure. An enjoyable tale but intended for a much yo...
This is the first book after "When the Tripods Came", and it takes place about 100 years after the invasion and takeover of earth by the Tripods. (This was actually the FIRST book Christopher wrote, it was published in 1967 whereas "When the Tripods Came" was published in 1988.) Will is a 13 year ...
These books are precious to me. But not the type of precious that requires a little hobbit to come along to my lair in my misty mountain hideout and steal them away, take them across some deserts and throw them into some smoking volcanic mountain. No these are precious for childhood reasons.I first ...
Another childhood reread, and I find it just as claustrophobically terrifying as I did at eight. Sure, the message of individualism and free will is a little heavy handed, but it works for me. Also a fallible narrator who pulls some really stupid, whiny shit but is nonetheless still sympathetic, eve...
I loved these books as a child. I should reread it someday to see how it holds up. But it's a classic story of conquered humans rising up against alien overlords, and the tripods (admittedly borrowed from H.G. Wells) really make you shiver every time they appear.
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