by John Wyndham I didn't really know what to expect from this one apart from evil plants, so enjoyed the thrill of discovery as the plot slowly unfolded in the early chapters. It surprised me that there was so much of the plot focused on the issue of everyone going blind from an unrelated source b...
‘I don’t care. I don’t mind working hard when there’s hope. It was having no more hope that was too much for me.’ This may come as a spoiler to people but I have to get this off my chest because I absolutely detest books whose title promises something that the book does not deliver: The is no blo...
This one went into and explored many of the points that I thought Chocky would, which is doubly great because creepy kids are disturbing as hell, and because I can give Wyndham props for not repeating himself in hindsight. There are differences with the pop-culture classic movie, as it always happ...
That ended in a place I did not expect before I started. It is disquieting indeed, but more from being guilty of emulating the mum than anything else. [spoiler] And because almost every adult involved was ghastly. [/spoiler] I kinda loved that it veered so. I'm discounting a star because this bein...
That was awesome! I love it when pop-culture classics are really all that. This one kept surprising me: - Because I had NO IDEA what it was about (beyond some vague notion that there was an apocalyptic event, and some plants were involved) - It changed lanes and directions non-stop (no getting...
Chocky tells the story of 12 year old boy, who all of a sudden has an imagenary friend. His parents have to deal with these changed circumstances and they have to ask themselves, if their son is turning mad or if he is possessed by some foreign entity. My second Wyndham and as much as I loved The ...
“Hundreds of thousands of them.” Kingsley Amis in his ‘New Maps Of Hell’ praises John Wyndham’s ‘coherence and concision’ and ‘Web’ is a good example of such qualities; Wyndham does here for Spider Island what he did for walking killer plants. Rejected by his publishers and only surfacing posthumous...
My mom & I love science fiction B-movies from the 50s and the 60s. Day of the Triffids is one of our favorites. When I saw it on a few Best of all Time lists I took a chance. I tried reading it and found the 'wordy' overwritten English grated on my nerves. So I tried the Audiobook and WOW color me h...
The scariest scenarios to me are always the most ordinary ones, where it takes a good long time for anyone to realize that something is wrong, and what that something is. And what could it mean? And what should one do about it? Can one do anything about it? For some reason I think the Brits really e...
"When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere." One morning Bill Masen wakes up in the hospital with bandages over his eyes and with the distinctive feeling that something is horrible wrong. During the night a gree...
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