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media type="custom" key="7803205" The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

"H.G. Wells'" //War of the Worlds// swept me away with his poetic style of writing.

This well known book combines science with history. The book is not of something of pure fiction, Wells said that it was more like an analogy to the past. He makes the aliens attack Britain like Britain attacked other countries. The story is set in the late nineteenth century England. Like I said it is about aliens. More specifically Martians attacking Earth. Wells has a poetic style of writing. He includes much more feeling and description in the book than many other authors that I've read. He writes very old fashion. I think it is good for describing but can sometimes make things a little too complicated. It starts off with the aliens hitting earth in these giant cylinders and at that point people are mostly curious of what it is. That's what the main character really comes in. The book is in first person so the story is told from the main character. His name was never stated so I just called him "H.G. Wells" because he wrote the book.The next biggest character is a curate, he and "Wells" travel together till the curate's death. I think these characters are good because of a lot of vivid detail.

It continues that the Martians come out there capsule and the look slow and not harmful. A day or two pasted and the Martians pullout the Heat Ray or laser that send people into flames. People have never seen this before and they fled the alien. Wells leave his home with his wife and goes to Leatherhead England to stay with his cousin. On way his horse cart breaks and they find his brother and his wife stay with him. As Wells makes his journey he see the giant alien tripods used for attack. He finds the curate and they travel together. They get to a ferry boat. The tripods comes and attacks them with the Heat Ray, Black Gas, and their giant tentacles. At one point they are imprisoned in a house and surrounded by Martians it looks slim getting out and also the curate is tarting to go mad.

If you like detailed books, aliens, and lasers than this is the book for you. I'm giving this a thumps up because of the the good story but sometimes difficult language and writing style. This was a good book.