Review: A classic worth spending time on
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 4, 2014
I’m catching up on the classics.  I certainly know the story, especially the Orson Wells narration that caused a stir so many years ago.  I also saw the Tom Cruise movie, but I have never actually read the book – until now.Very interesting story with lots of creative detail.  I found the archaic writing style a bit hard to follow, but that’s the case with many of the classics.  As with other H.G. Wells stories I have read, I find he confines his stories to a narrow band when he could have done so much more (eg, The Time Machine).  In this story he ties up a lot of loose ends but leaves some big gaps.  He tells much of the story through the eyes of his brother, but never returns to that theme – it almost felt like an exploitative attempt to just explain what was going on while the narrator was hunkered down without any knowledge of the outside world.Still a worthwhile story to read.