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Originally Posted by issybird
 Maybe it’s been around so long because it’s that good? |
A few months ago I read the War of the Worlds. It's also been around a long time, and a classic at that. I've never read a book in my life (except for some of the Clavell books) that mentioned so many people, towns, cities, districts and parks.
Very little actually happens if you think about it, and sometimes the book comes to a halt for 10-20 pages where the author just info-dumps.
While there are works of HG. Wells that I like, the War of the Worlds is not one of them. Some classics _are_ massively overrated, IMHO. I think that if WotW had been written after 2000, it wouldn't even have been published...