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The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I have seen the movie with Tom Cruise, so I was cross-referencing the book against that while reading. Didn't want to, but it just kept running in the background. A fairly slow pace in the beginning, it picked up nicely towards the end. It felt emotionally distant, I had a hard time sympathising with the main character. The description of the aliens was great, reminded me a little of Lovecraft. There was a lot of descriptions of who was going where, which made it feel a little like a Geography lesson of the Greater London area at times. It didn't captivate me, but all things considered it wasn't bad.