Well, a triffid, of course. When I encountered them first, aged eleven or so, they had a scariness value of at least a Dalek. The Day of the Triffids is a book I read many times, so that now, listening to the audiobook (well-narrated on the whole by Samuel West), I mostly recollected the text just...
Some books can be quite ill-served by their title. 'Not enough triffids!' would complain those lured to this book by the promise of a fun sci-fi romp centered around carnivorous sentient plants - just to find something entirely different. But you gotta agree - a more appropriate title for this unexp...
Nobody knows where triffids came from. Someone even suggested that the triffids are a secret bio-weapon deposited in the satellites. They are plants, but they can move too, just like animals. In the beginning, they demonstrate no animosity to humans, but it didn’t last long. After nearly all human p...
What I liked:The triffids. They're ungainly, amusing, and deadly. Unlike others, I didn't find them silly or ridiculous, which may be because Wyndham doesn't weight them down with a lot of supernatural or "alien" powers. They're a force of nature, not much different from lions or tigers on the loose...
Isn't it funny that even though you have read a book before the movie seems to dominate your mind, and I am not talking about the recent telemovie (which I haven't seen) but the older 1960s movie that basically makes a complete mockery of this book. Not only were the special effects in the movie rea...
Nearly everyone runs or loses all hope or become suicidal when the plants pull up roots. Come on man, are we British or not? Most revealing in its portrayal of the British military.
A classic.Sometimes classic is good. Sometimes classic is interesting. And sometimes, it's classic just because it was first, not best. For me, Triffids is a classic in the last sense, as one of the first novels in an era exploring the end of civilization. Colored by recent events of World War II,...
Interesting read for the historical perspective - I can see how this book has influenced many modern disaster / post-apocalyptic novels and movies.However, don't think the book has itself stood the test of time. I found the characters a little to simplistic, and the collapse of society and the new ...
Wow, reading this one was good fun!I still think that 'War with the Newts' by Karel Capek cannot be surpassed as a sci-fi dystopian novel, but - in its best moments - 'The Day of the Triffids' certainly get close to that model.You have to agree that carnivorous aggressive two metres tall plants fee...
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