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Bezig met laden... The War of the Wenuses (1898)door C. L. Graves, E. V. Lucas (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. If you think the title sounds dirty... you're probably right. In this 1898 Wells parody, Earth is re-invaded by the fearsome women of the planet Wenus, and it's up to our narrator to spend the entire book not mentioning his wife and restraining his natural inclination to kill curates with meat cleavers. It's surprisingly hilarious; my favorite jokes were the ones poking fun at Wells's attempts at verisimilitude-- the local geography and population is ridiculously overdescribed. Also: even in 1898, people were well aware that Wells's depiction of female characters was... problematic. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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No one would have believed in the first years of the twentieth century that men and modistes on this planet were being watched by intelligences greater than woman's and yet as ambitious as her own. With infinite complacency maids and matrons went to and fro over London, serene in the assurance of their empire over man. It is possible that the mysticetus does the same. Not one of them gave a thought to Wenus as a source of danger, or thought of it only to dismiss the idea of active rivalry upon it as impossible or improbable. Yet across the gulf of space astral women, with eyes that are to the eyes of English women as diamonds are to boot-buttons, astral women, with hearts vast and warm and sympathetic, were regarding Butterick's with envy, Peter Robinson's with jealousy, and Whiteley's with insatiable yearning, and slowly and surely maturing their plans for a grand inter-stellar campaign. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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That was stupid.. like Spaceballs levels of dumb... it was kinda awesome :) . So a parody of War of the Worlds that came out only weeks/months after the original book.
"My terror had fallen from me like a bath towel."
Highly recommend reading this as close to War of the Worlds as possible. Even so 100 year old comedy isn't always easy to parse.
There's some odd word choices too, it spends a lot of time describing streetnames and stuff which i think are digs at the original.
It breaks the forth wall and does allsorts of absurd parody elements. Its pretty short, certainly worth a look for fans of War of the Worlds.
"I stood there ecstatic, unprogressive, immoderate; while swiftly and surely ungovernable affection for all Wenuses gripped me."
Edit: Made available by the Merril Collection. ( )