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lorraine19's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
The pace kinda goes back and forth between fast and slow paced, but the imagery and descriptions in some of the scenes is really good. You have to keep in mind how old this book is when reading some of the more "scientific" parts. Wells did try to incorporate some actual science explanations which unfortunately are a bit outdated. So if that is something that really bothers you this book might not be for you. But if you don't mind more fiction in your scifi, it's a classic for a reason.
<SPOILERS> I did find the ending to be disappointing but this is more of a personal preference. It just felt like it didn't match the tone of the rest of the book with it being all "oh everything turned out okay". I really wish he kept the tone dark or even left it more open ended. <SPOILERS>
<SPOILERS> I did find the ending to be disappointing but this is more of a personal preference. It just felt like it didn't match the tone of the rest of the book with it being all "oh everything turned out okay". I really wish he kept the tone dark or even left it more open ended. <SPOILERS>
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, Murder, and War
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Blood, and Alcohol
Minor: Alcoholism, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Police brutality
Starvation, survival, cannibalismotisthedungeonmaster's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
the books world building was good but the characters just had no depth
Content Warnings
Moderate: Colonisation
Minor: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Violence, Blood, and War
nerdkitten's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Grief, and War
Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
moreau's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
the book is fucking boring. the concept of how the martians look and work is really cool, but most of the book is just people running. reading the book made me hate all the adaptations of it even more, there shouldnt be so many. stop making war of the worlds stuff its boring. dr moreau is where its at, food of the gods or the time machine would be better too. this works as a movie you forget about after you see it and thats it. its interesting but i dont get the hype. the best aspect was the fact david tennant was narrating it, love him. i wouldnt have been born without his existence. my parents both like him. also helped picturing the main character as him, i previously thought of him as tom cruise because of that one movie. ive seen the other movies but i love tom cruise so think of him, but he does not fit the book. david tennant does, if i hadnt had his assistance i would not have finished this. fuck you hg wells, this was boring as. never ever remake this unless its a movie directed by Richard Stanley. he is hg wells reincarnated. sad i cant put a trigger warning for 'boring' in the warnings on here. helped me fall asleep at least.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence and War
Moderate: Death and Blood
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
hanbu's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail
ggcd1981's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
The War of the Worlds é um clássico de ficção cientifica e foi a primeira obra de H. G. Wells que li. A obra tem um narrador e protagonista ao qual não é dado nenhum nome. Esse narrador é um homem educado, e como astrônomo amador, ele é um dos primeiros a notar um flash de Marte. Esse protagonista é corajoso, mas ocasionalmente é dominado pelo medo durante a invasão. Os Marcianos, os antagonistas da obra, são alienígenas tecnologicamente avançados que invadem a Terra. Eles são extremamente combativos e implacáveis em sua destruição da Terra e dos seus seres vivos. Suas principais armas são canhões de raios de calor e vapor escuro venenoso. Sua descrição no livro: são como polvos com tentáculos ao redor de suas cabeças, são do tamanho de ursos e se injetam com sangue humano para se alimentar. Quanto a outros personagens o narrador também menciona alguns que, pelo menos do seu círculo pessoal, figuraram nos eventos que seguiram a invasão. São os principais deles: O soldado da artilharia sem nome que sobrevive aos ataques. Ele se considera um excelente exemplo do ser humano ideal e tem planos grandiosos para sobreviver a invasão e liderar uma nova geração da humanidade. Porém é um tanto preguiçoso e hedonista; O Vigário, um homem não identificado da igreja, ele serviu para mostrar que o Narrador é um homem melhor e mais resiliente por comparação. Sua crise de fé o deixa abalado e o faz se comportar de maneira irracional. Ele se recusa a agir de acordo com a realidade terrível da situação e acaba perecendo por isso ; O irmão mais novo do narrador, também sem nome. Ele é um estudante de medicina em Londres e escreve ao Narrador sobre o que aconteceu em Londres durante os primeiros dias da invasão. De natureza equilibrada e virtuosa ele foi capaz de ajudar a si mesmo e outros durante a evacuação. O pequeno grupo liderado pelo irmão do protagonista chega ao litoral e é capaz de entrar em um dos barcos e se afastar da costa, de lá testemunham o heroísmo de uma embarcação que protege os barcos civis dos marcianos.
A atmosfera do livro é marcante por ser desesperada, apocalíptica e assustadora. Com certeza a atmosfera é um ponto forte do livro pois a narrativa fala do processo de invasão, não de um mundo pós-apocalíptico como é o caso em muitos livros. Assim a sensação de urgência, medo e desespero é maior. Wells escreveu um livro a frente de seu tempo, bastante inovador para a época, mas alguns pontos fracos de sua escrita são que ele não realmente aprofunda os personagens secundários e que sua tendência a especificar demais as localizações geográficas dos acontecimentos do livro deixam o passo um pouco lento em algumas partes da obra. O enredo de The War of the Worlds é: Quando um exército de marcianos invasores chega à Inglaterra, o pânico e o terror tomam conta da população. Enquanto os alienígenas atravessam o país em enormes máquinas de três pernas, incinerando tudo em seu caminho com um raio de calor e espalhando gases tóxicos nocivos, o povo da Terra deve aceitar a perspectiva do fim da civilização humana e o início do reinado marciano. Durante esses eventos o livro acompanha um protagonista civil enquanto este tenta fugir e sobreviver. A obra de Wells inspirou filmes, dramas de rádio, adaptações de histórias em quadrinhos, séries de televisão e sequências. The War of the Worlds é uma obra prototípica de ficção científica que influenciou todas as histórias alienígenas que surgiram desde então.
A obra em si é bastante intrigante. Eu nunca assisti nenhuma adaptação desse livro então não realmente recebi spoilers, mas esse clássico é tão presente na cultura pop que tinha algumas vagas noções do fim dos alienígenas infectados por bactérias da terra . No entanto isso não diminuiu muito a minha curiosidade sobre o desenrolar da história. Sobre a lógica da obra é necessário manter em mente que na época o conhecimento sobre o sistema solar e Marte eram limitados. Diante disso a lógica, para a época, foi ótima. Salvo pelos poucos problemas na escrita eu desfrutei da história. Não particularmente criei apego aos personagens, mas foi fascinante ler quão a frente de seu tempo foi a história de H. G. Wells. Dou um sólido 4 estrelas.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Genocide
Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Violence, and War
hiddeninfantasy's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Genocide, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and War
emma6544's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: War
Moderate: Death and Violence
minzzi's review against another edition
adventurous
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
It's the first time I read a Sci-Fi book set in the past. Seeing how a society pre-internet deals with an alien invasion was quite interesting. It really made me think about how far we have came in terms of technology and globalization and if we, today, would survive an invasion like that.
And I do have to give this book a few points for not forgetting that the main character would definitely have PTSD from everything he went throw, like so many modern sci-fi and fantasy storys do.
However, most of the story is this style of writing I don't really like. is just: "this happened and then this happened and then that happened", over and over again. There is almost no time to breath and the description of things and people are very surface level.
Also, there was this anoying thing were the author just drops names of random parts of England with no further explanation or description of the place. Like, in sorry sir, but not everyone who reads this book has the map of all the streets of London memorised.
And I do have to give this book a few points for not forgetting that the main character would definitely have PTSD from everything he went throw, like so many modern sci-fi and fantasy storys do.
However, most of the story is this style of writing I don't really like. is just: "this happened and then this happened and then that happened", over and over again. There is almost no time to breath and the description of things and people are very surface level.
Also, there was this anoying thing were the author just drops names of random parts of England with no further explanation or description of the place. Like, in sorry sir, but not everyone who reads this book has the map of all the streets of London memorised.
Content Warnings
Minor: Confinement, Death, Murder, and War
verysillygoose's review against another edition
dark
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, and War
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Blood
Minor: Child death, Sexism, and Suicidal thoughts