2020s US audiences discovering there's a place called "Woking" (where Wells was from, IDK if it gets namedropped in the books)
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It very much does, and Woking loves it www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-m...
aug 31, 2025, 12:48 pm • 3 0 • view
I can only remember Basingstoke and Leatherhead, but it's 30 years since I read the book. My teenaged brain also made a note of a passage where someone runs from her house semi-naked and her husband follows "ejaculating" and I don't know if that meant shouting or... something else
aug 31, 2025, 12:19 pm • 2 0 • view
lol, I tried reading it once, but was already familiar with the Jeff Wayne summary, so it didn't really work
aug 31, 2025, 12:41 pm • 1 0 • view