War of the Worlds

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War of the Worlds

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1MathChick
Edited: Jun 30, 2007, 10:27 pm

Has anyone here read War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells?

I am forced to read it for school and I can't get into it. (Probably due to the fact that i am currently following a ba-jillion manga series and reading other books at the same time.....)

Anyways I guess what I am getting at is was anyone else forced to read this book?

2fannyprice
Jun 30, 2007, 10:23 pm

Hi there - I'm an old person, not a teen, but I just finished The War of the Worlds recently and thought I'd weigh in.

I did not find it hard to get into, but I found it hard to stick with. I thought it could have been shorter - more like the length of The Time Machine, which is (in my opinion) an easier H.G. Wells book to get interested in. So much of the narrative was repetitive and kind of dull - did we need the alien attacks described over and over and over again?

It is an interesting book, however, in terms of the issues it raises about domination. Apparently much of the book is written as a reflection on the British colonial experience. Also interesting is that many people were apparently inspired to become vegetarians after reading this book. I won't say exactly why, since I don't know how far you are in the book.

Anyway, I wish you luck. Mandatory reading, even when it's good, if often really hard to slog through.

3MathChick
Jun 30, 2007, 10:31 pm

Thanks. I tend to enjoy most books that are mandatory when I don't know they're mandatory, if you know what I mean...

Oh, on my other post it won't let me touchstone to the book so its the recording instead.