Meh! The Day of the Triffids is an entertaining, lightning-quick read, but far from a "modern classic" in my opinion. It's part B movie on the Syfy Channel (think Sharktopus or Mansquito), part critique of various forms of social order, and part discussion of appropriate gender roles in a given soci...
The book was sort of alright, but didn't take very much to my fancy because of the rather subtle premise it founded. I liked the idea of man-eating plants, but I had hoped the mysteries presented at the start of the book would unravel themselves in a much more conspiring manner, and at the end of th...
The Day of the Triffids was a fun, fast and entertaining classic science fiction novel. It also had a few deep ideas buried beneath its blockbuster movie script exterior. And most certainly this was a well written novel as with the other science fiction classics I have encountered.I knew little abou...
Day of the Triffids starts with Bill Masen in hospital eyes bandaged whilst everyone else is watching the meteor shower outside, the following day when no hospital staff attend to him he takes his bandages off to find everyone has been blinded.Bill Masen has been in hospital due to being attacked by...
A classic that doesn't really feel dated at all, even though I'm reading this more than 60 years after it was published. I remember loving John Wyndham's the Chrysalids from when I read it for class in high school, so I was quite looking forward to this.In this book, an unnatural breed of aggressive...
I read the first 10-15 pages, felt the writing was kind of dated and the premise -- daffodils or whatever that eat people... -- sounded stupid. And so asked myself: "Why bother?"...
I really enjoyed this book. I know I certainly highlighted quite a bit :). It started off a bit slow, but really picked up by the middle of the first chapter. Wyndham did a great job of capturing the despair and loneliness of a world destroyed by greed. I highly recommend this book!!!
I'm not usually a big fan of dystopia or science fiction but did find this book to be very interesting, well written and ,unfortunately, entirely plausible. Okay, I take the entirely plausible bit back but it still kept my attention throughout. Good read.
For some reason, I had the impression that Day of the Triffids was about the sudden attack of man-killing mobile plants. So I was surprised when it was revealed that the triffids had been around for a long time and a worldwide case of blindness was the cause of the catastrophe - the triffids merely ...
It's interesting to see how many of the post-apocalyptic tropes remain basically the same after 60 years. The cities are thought to be death traps because there won't be enough food and eventually the bodies will pose serious health risks. There are concerns that people have become so specialized th...
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