Proceed at your own risk, since this gives awaya\ a great deal of the story.
There isn't anything new about this story of alien invasion and the powerful lust of aliens wanting the destruction of man, so they can take over the planet.
This book reminds me of a train moving away from a station platform. At first someone could run next to the train easily but as the train speeds up there comes a moment that the runner knows he can't possibly keep up and as the train speeds up he slows down, or at the last minute he jumps on for the ride.
I was that runner easily bored at the beginning of the book, and my mind outracing the slowness of the words, but towards the end, my every thought became fixated on this speeding target and the ride was insane.
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Their move was brilliantly planned, and never in doubt of failing.
When Tom confronts the alien who pretended to be his brother's friend, towards the end of the book, he states aren't going to give up the earth easily. The alien states, "look around Tom we've already taken over," which was true, he just didn't want to comprehend the reality.
I had chills for the invader's complete lack of empathy, and he states that humans are just as guilty since we have taken land from others in the past, and we are no better than they are. He states that it's in our human nature to greedily take from others what we feel like, but he doesn't care at all about the fate of humans.
Tom kills him, and even though it is a drop of water in a universe of oceans, I felt extreme happiness at his doing so.
Greed is a terrible thing in humans and aliens, and I guess the number one rule of the universe is if you got it then someone else will covet it and possibly take it from you.
I have two problems with this book and one is that there are a couple of crude sex scenes I could live without, but most people won't care about these at
One of the oldest books the Epic of Gilgamesh gives us a view on how the old civilization Mesopotamia and its people were it roots back to the year 2000 B.C.E. The book starts off by the King Gilgamesh sending a temple-prostitute to tame a wild man named Enkidu who acted like an animal in the grasslands. The temple-prostitute then sexualy charms him to win Enkidu’s trust. then convinces him to go back with her to the city. She then clothes him and teaches him how to eat cooked food and brewed beer and how to bathe. By her words it shows how the mesopotamians lived.
The thing about this book that made me want to read the novel was the very simple idea that was ran with in the
the book is appropriate for a certain age group. For reasons like; sexual content, violence, offensive
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I am questioning why the alien hosts would take over other species bodies in order to protect the earth.
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I have watched pornography before and I’m not afraid or ashamed to admit that. While there are some scenes that actually depict the fantasy of rape or torture, I feel that is more of a minority in comparison to the degradation aspect of the adult entertainment industry. These women are meant to be lusted over and sometimes in those moments of lust they are made to do things that do not scream decency. I agree with the aspect presented in the book.
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This story of tri-pod aliens invading Earth has been seen in film adaptations over and over again since Byron Haskin’s 1953 movie of the same name. Some related films have been made that focus on The War of the Worlds radio broadcast, such as The Night That Panicked America Before I read The War of the Worlds for class, I was much more familiar with the Orson Welles 1938 broadcast and the films based on the novel. The chaos caused by the radio broadcast has always fascinated me, and has also fascinated others. The radio broadcast has been remade and re emulated several times since the 1938 broadcast. As far as direct film adaptations, the more recent Tom Cruise movie adaptation, from 2005, is probably the most popular film based on the novel. The 1898 story has continued to pop up in slightly altered forms, mainly setting of where the invasion takes place, for such a long time that it feels familiar. For me, reading the book did not feel like a new experience. I had seen it all before just never in the true form of Well’s novel. Beside strict adaptations of the novel, many ideas and plot points introduced by Wells in his novel are seen in other science
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