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The War Of The Worlds: H.G. Wells's Classic Plus Blood, Guts And Zombies (2009)

by Eric S. Brown(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1897217919 (ISBN13: 9781897217917)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Coscom Entertainment

review 1: Invaders from the Red Planet come to earth, causing zombies to swarm the planet, thus threatening all of mankind instead of just Great Britain. *** The possibility of life on other planets has been written about in many genres, especially science fiction. Author Eric S. Brown’s fascination with zombies has led him to modify H.G. Wells classic, “War of the Worlds”. While the Mars invaders in that original novel were limited to Great Britain, here zombies are created worldwide, as particles falling off the Martian spaceships spread throughout earth’s atmosphere.Brown’s version can be liken to his purchase of a frosted cake from a bakery to which he added a few sprinkles for decoration whereupon he takes credit for creating the entire confection. To say that the add... moreition of zombies to this timeless tale is superficial is an understatement. Unlike Well’s original, this version needs additional editing. There are some sentences with either a misspelled or missing word. For example on page 87, “It was my unfortunate luck that a dead man already killed the ditch home.” There are also a few minor formatting issues, although they do not affect the flow of the story. Readers interested in other War of the Worlds adaptations can read George H. Smith’s, “The Second War of the Worlds”; Was and Manly Wade Wellman’s “Sherlock Holmes’ War of the Worlds”; J.M. Dillard’s “War of the World’s: The Resurrection”; Max Allan Collin’s “War of the Worlds Murder”; Tony Wright’s “War of the Worlds: Aftermath”; Douglas Niles’ “War of the Worlds: New Millennium”; Gabriel Mesta’s “The Martian Wars”; or, “War of the Worlds: Global Dispatch” edited by Kevin J. Anderson.Readers interested in other zombie tales can read any one of Eric E. Brown’s numerous books on zombies or “World War Z” and “The Zombie Survival Guide” by Max Brooks.
review 2: Blurb: The classic science fiction tale that will eat your brains!Never before in the history of warfare had destruction been so indiscriminate and so universal.Panic descends upon planet Earth once more as H.G. Wells's terrifying cosmic invaders blaze a path of fiery destruction across Victorian England, leaving thousands of undead in their wake. Our adventurous narrator must survive the apocalyptic alien threat while fighting off raging, bloodthirsty zombies. Who will triumph when man, Martian, and flesh-eating monster meet? Packed with fearsome supernatural creatures at every turn, Wells's original masterpiece is scarier, gorier, and more suspenseful than ever!What Stephanie Thought: I haven't read the original The War of the Worlds, so when I picked up The War of the Worlds, Plus Blood, Guts, and Zombies, I wasn't entirely sure what to expect. Maybe if I had read the rudimentary novel, I could have enjoyed it more, but not having done so, I found much of this book disappointing.I normally am a fan of science fiction because of the element of the gory and of the unknown. I was excited to read this because I knew it would involve zombies, but the zombies played very minute roles in the plot.I'm not sure why this had to be drawn out to 306 pages, but the best way I can explain what happens is that a mysterious cylinder carrying Martians appears, containing a Heat-Ray gun that zaps dead people into zombies. A few days later, another cylinder appears, containing more Martians, and another gun. Then a THIRD cylinder appears...and it's pretty much self-explanatory from there. Aside from the three cylinder appearances, nothing actually happened within the book, making it really hard to finish. In terms of style, it wasn't difficult to get through, which was pleasant because usually classics take a little more analyzing than usual. The quality of the writing however, was very bland and unmoving. There's this one scene with the zombies that attempts to be extremely bloodletting: "Their brains must have cooked inside their skulls like eggs frying in a pan." Okay, "eggs frying in a pan"? Real original. Real horrific. Nothing particularly motivated me to keep reading. It took me a while to finish the whole novel, and though it was a pretty facile read, in the end, I felt like I didn't get anything out of it.The War of the Worlds, Plus Blood, Guts, and Zombies wasn't the worst I've read, but it definitely isn't something I'd be interested in reading again. The monotonous way the author writes seems to drone on and on, and the action never presents itself as suspenseful or the least bit amusing, even.Stephanie Loves: "I crouched at the foot of the staircase with my back to the wall, shivering violently. Then I heard the screams from outside, down the road. The voices I heard belonged to the living and now the dead had found them. I shuddered and prayed for their souls."Where Stephanie Got It: Paranormal Haven for review.Radical Rating: 5 hearts- Satisfying for a first read, but I'm not going back. ♥♥♥♥♥ less

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