The most enlightening point in this novel is when a small group of survivors are trying to figure out what to do next. Most of the population is blind and poisonous carnivore plants are roaming the earth. Someone rises and states that things could be a lot worse. Hasn't the Earth been on the brink o...
Pretty good read. THe first half was very, very good and then the plot just sort of wound down from there. I thought the ending was spectacularly weak. Like some kind of Saturday morning cartoon where Scooby and the gang are able to stop the evil caretaker by *(doing something that would be a spo...
I picked this up because of its apparent influence on 28 Days Later. I enjoyed it a great deal. The style seemed very contemporary, I could scarcely believe it was written almost 60 years ago.
In a single cataclysmic event the world is changed when most of the population of the earth wakes up blind. The few sighted people must decide if they should try and rescue the masses of blind people, or overcome the difficult task of eking out survival in a hostile world. Added to the mix is the ...
Almost seems like a companion novel to Earth Abides - happening on parallel Earths, that is. Same feel to the writing, same male/white narrator slant, but hey, the author is a product of his time. If you can get past that (and it's pretty minor in this), is a great read. Would be excellent for book...
Almost seems like a companion novel to Earth Abides - happening on parallel Earths, that is. Same feel to the writing, same male/white narrator slant, but hey, the author is a product of his time. If you can get past that (and it's pretty minor in this), is a great read. Would be excellent for book...
I think this might have been one of the later Wyndham novels, because it has incident, which makes it easier to read than, say The Kraken Wakes, where civilisation is destroyed by some nasty creatures who live in the deepest parts of the ocean but probably arrived from space. Wyndham was quite keen ...
Interesting read. Old SF novel that talks about the fears of the time (apocalypse from space). Story is told well but I felt the reaction of the blind people was a little unrealistic in that they were more non-functionally depressed than they were hysterical. The triffids were interesting creatur...
Well-loved books from my pastRating: 4 worried, sky-searching stars of five, with a pair of dark goggles at the ready The Book Description: In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic,...
Everything seemed fine with the domesticated Triffids until the Earth passed through the tail of a comet, blinding much of the world's population. It was then the Triffids struck!I love the proto-sf of the first half of the 20th century, when the lines between sf and horror were more blurred than t...
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