xhonzi said:

That's how I feel about H.G. Well's War of the Worlds.

I had the pleasure of reading that for the first time recently (After owning the Richard Burton musical on CD)

I enjoyed it, I especially like the seemingly little known fact that a couple of fighting machines are actually destroyed by soldiers during the initial conflict. Of course, the retaliation by the others is always a devastating counter. The description of the Thunderchild's sacrifice was particularly moving. I just knew before I saw Spielburgs film that they were going to give the tripods shields.

But yes, the english is quite quaint. Because I am very immature I recall an interesting excerpt which has not aged well at all:

"His landlady came to the door, loosely wrapped in dressing gown and shawl; her husband followed ejaculating."