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The War of the Worlds (Penguin Classics)
 

The War of the Worlds (Penguin Classics)

by H. G. Wells, Andy Sawyer

Famous for the mistaken panic that ensued from Orson Welles?s 1938 radio dramatization, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential of all science fiction works. The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. Naïve locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag?only to be quickly killed... (read more)

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David R
  • Rated 5 stars

“This book is amazing. Right in the beginning, you learn what will happen, and this book kept me on edge. But the movie sucked... lol. Anyways, this book was amazing, and I couldn't put it down for a second, until class was over....
I'd recommend this book for anyone who loves Horror stories, and Alien Invasion stories.”

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Didn’t Like It

Genna C
  • Rated 2 stars

“Everyone talks about how influential this novel was what a great classic it is. But to be honest, it was not all that great. An interesting concept but I struggled to get through it. There's little action and almost no dialogue and the book in its entirety is just sort of a drag. It was a great idea, but the execution just sucked.”

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Community:
  • Rated 3.782734 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 4.242857 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • Kyle s

    kyle s said:

    “It is really interesting”

    posted Tuesday, June 24 2008
  • Madeline R

    madeline r said:

    “For my reading class, I had to read a classic book and I chose this. It ended up being REALLY good. Then I decided to watch the movie and compare. The movie actually didn't do that bad. It even paraphrased some of the lines.”

    posted Friday, April 18 2008
  • tyler v

    tyler v said:

    “this book is about the movie and how aliens are attacking the earth and killing all the people. they land from a spacecraft and cannot move untill they get used to the gravity. the people finally destroy them at the end of the book and im not gonna ruin the ending 4 u”

    posted Monday, January 7 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • Eng'r,poet,writer,editor,SaghierAhmedJafri

    eng'r,poet,writer,editor,saghierahmedjafri said:

    “I have read a few H.G.Well's books.
    I always enjoyed reading interesting books of prominent writers and also the books of new talented writers,poets.
    In this book , H.G.Wells has nicely touched on several issues which involves the humanity.
    Saghier Ahmed Jafri , Editor : Urdu Manzil , http://www.urdumanzil.com ”

    posted Wednesday, November 14 2007
  • Pieohpah

    pieohpah said:

    “I first read WOTW many years ago when I was a youngster, and enjoyed it for the adventure, but re-reading it more recently (along with several other classic Wells SF novels) was most enlightening. I had discovered that the book was inspired by the genocide of the Tasmanian aborigines (although they were hunted down and mercilessly killed, there are still plenty of people in the state who identify as aboriginal). Wells wanted to turn the tables and put the British Empire, seen (by themselves) as the pinnacle of human culture at the time, into the place of the "primitives" being hunted and exploited. As an Australian, this carries powerful resonances for me, given the "sorry" debate, and more recent events affecting aboriginal Australia.”

    posted Monday, July 9 2007
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