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I'm about halfway in that book. Again the style I find clumsy and cumbersome (the recitation of the events by itself too, but ugh, all those town and street and place names..., maybe I could follow it on a map), the story is engaging however. I'm familiar with at least the Tom Cruise movie from all of its adaptations.
It is sprinkled with nice details, like how they searched for the brigadier general's HQ but they couldn't find it in the chaos, or the machinists of the trains did not want to risk returning to London. He also has a great imagination with the "Heat Ray" (laser? the book was written in 1897), or with the walker which was recycled in later works like Star Wars (and even maybe was an inspiration for mechs). The "space ship" of the martian is very Verne-like, they are shot here from a giant gun.
So what's in the book I like it very much, how it is presented, it's a bit of pain. Maybe the Hungarian translation is different, I might check that out.
Just by a search we can see many nice re-imagination of the essence of the book.