Music: In Your Honor by Foo Fighters

I've been looking for a good book to read so I decided to try out the 'sci-fi classic' The War Of The Worlds after being intrigued by the blurb on the back of the book. The progenitor of the classic alien invasion story, it's kind of an odd read. Capsules are shot from Mars and unleash multi-tentacled abominations that proceed to build massive machinery and burn the countryside to ashes with a heat-ray; the things heat-ray three of the narrator's colleagues/best-friends within 5 minutes of their first appearance. Yet no one gives a shit. They react to it like we reacted to the Janet Jackson Superbowl scandal. Monocles a'poppin', exclamations of "Why I never!" and all that, but that's the extent of the surprise. It's a "hot topic around the town", discussed over dinner, and people anxiously await new info from the local newspaper. Meanwhile, the Martians are less than a mile away burning things to the ground. Not sure what to make of it.

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Can you hear me
Hear me screamin'
Breaking in the muted sky
This thunder heart
Like bombs beating
Echoing a thousand miles