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Summary: Exciting and Compelling!
Review: Nature has always been an unfolding mystery to the human race.Ê From the very beginning of time, men depicted stories of nature's beginning on cave walls and told beautiful myths and stories in an attempt to explain the unknown.Ê Even today, there is much in the world we do not understand.Ê John Wyndam's The Day of the Triffids presents a possible side of nature that has not yet been discovered.
Ê ÊÊÊ The novel takes place in the suburbs of England in the early twenty-first century, where Bill Masen has been checked into the hospital after surviving a brutal attack from a triffid, one of a strange species of carnivorous plants.Ê While he is in he hospital, the Earth supposedly passes through a cloud of comet debris, creating what the press call "the most remarkable celestial spectacle on record."Ê However,Ê like many things today, the beautiful meteor shower has a hidden catch - all who watch it will become blind.Ê Bill, who is unable to watch the phenomenon due to his bandaged eyes, awakes in the morning to a deathly silence and to the awful realization that everyone around him is sightless.Ê He ventures out of the hospital and teams up with a young author, Josella Playton, who can see as well.Ê The two explore the country together in hopes of finding more humans who have not become blinded by the shower and instead discover that the triffids have begun to walk and are attacking innocent and blinded humans.Ê The Day of the Triffids relates the story of Bill and Josella's fight to survive in the seemingly impossible. John Wyndam's The Day of the Triffids is an exciting and compelling novel that will keep the reader hanging on every word, just waiting to see what will happen next.Ê The plot of the book is farfetched yet understandable and interesting, and leaves one wondering if something so horrifying could occur in the world today.Ê The terror that Bill and Josella face in their triffid-inhabited world makes the characters easy to relate to and sympathize with.Ê Practically everyone in the world has been faced with a challenge or difficult situation, and The Day of the Triffids just magnifies the fear one might go through.Ê Wyndam strings together a series of events in such a way that every part of the book is engrossing, and he leaves the reader begging for more. For more information on The Day of the Triffids, go to:
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Never seen the tv series, and I was lucky that way. Growing up and narrowly escaping being blinded to the cleverness of what is a gripping and fantastic tale. Then one day, the book got me. It was sitting there in a dark corner of someone elses room, and then it stung me. Next thing I knew was two days later, and I was sitting back in the real world with a worn book that had no more pages to read. This is an excellent story. Don't be put off by the TV series, or just because you don't like Sci-Fi.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: The best book of its type ever writte
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Summary: Entharling, always urging you to reead on.
Review: The book has a very simple plot and is good for those who are just starting to read science-fiction. The idea is that these huge plants which can walk and talk [to each other] take over the world. High unbeliveable you might think, well the whole sroy is wound into a clever, but yet not so dramatic as I expected, ending
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Summary: a literary equivalent of The Blob...
Review: The Day of the Triffids has all the feel on a 1950s cheesy science fiction movie: implausible monsters (walking/thinking/hunting plants) threatening the existence of the human race. There is also some Cold War paranoia (..the commies are behind all this!) for good measure. However the book surprisingly rises above the silliness and is, thankfully, an enjoyable read. The Day of the Triffids succeeds because of two factors. One, it does a terrific job of building suspense; it is indeed a page-turner. Secondly, its description of how people act after "the world has ended" is frighteningly realistic. Think Stephen King's The Stand and you've got the right idea. However Wyndham's prose is a bit more crisp, and the scenes are less graphic. Bottom line: a surprisingly mature bit of nostalgic science fiction. Not quite as shocking as when it was first published, yet The Day of the Triffids still offers reading entertainment value.
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Summary: Holds up well - even after 50+ years
Review: The Day of the Triffids is a classic end-of-the-world sci-fi novel set in England. Two bizarre things happen at the beginning of the novel to create disaster. Number 1: Science "discovers" walking plants that are named Triffids that can communicate among themselves. Our narrator, Bill Masen, believes that they are the result of Russian military testing, possibly meant to be a weapon, but they quickly spread all over the world. The Triffid is harmless enough until it grows to be man-sized. Then, it is able to walk by using its branches to swing its trunk, similar to the way a man on crutches walks. Once it walks, it is also able to hunt with this long whip-like tentacle with a poisoned tip. The Triffids like to eat putrid, rotting meat, much like a Venus Flytrap. It tears the meat loose with its tentacle.
The Triffids are more of a curiosity to the world, though until bizarre thing #2 happens: There is a meteor shower one night - it is very bright and people all over the world watch it because it goes on all night. The next day, everyone who saw any part of the shower goes blind. Our narrator, however, is not blind because he had hospitalized for eye surgery and his eyes had been bandaged the night of the shower. Masen believes the meteor shower was not a natural ocurrence, but rather it was all a mistaken attack by an American or Russian satellite with a space-based radiation weapon.
The rest of the book concerns Masen and his struggle to survive. Everything collapses when 95% of the population goes blind. The whole of England becomes a Mad Max environment and different types of communities are formed to attempt to deal with the blind survivors, the Triffids and the threat from other sighted survivors.
All in all, its a good read and it holds up well, considering it is 50+ years old. Wyndham did a great job of prediciting the Cold War and the buildup of weapons and the push to harnass science for military applications. I would assume that this book had been read by the creators of Mad Max because they share a lot of the same images. However, don't get this book confused with the constant violence of the Road Warrior. Those scenes are rare, even if the settings are similar. This is a much more philosophical work, with lots of discussion about the nature of man.
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Summary: Is the human race getting too smart for their own good?
Review: The Day of the Triffids is set in the suburbs of England in the early twenty-first century. Bill Masen, the main character, is admitted to the hospital after having survived a savage attack by a triffid, a strange and unusual carnivorous plant. During the assault, the triffid struck him across the face, injuring his eyes. The doctors are making every effort to prevent Bill from becoming blind by performing a risky surgery. Little do they know, they will save his sight more than once. While Bill is in the hospital, the Earth passes through what is believed to be a cloud of comet debris, creating what the press calls, "the most remarkable celestial spectacle on record." However, the beautiful meteor shower has a hidden catch - all who watch it become blind. Bill, who is unable to view the phenomenon due to his bandaged eyes, awakens the next morning to a deathly silence. After removing his bandages, he comes to the awful realization that everyone around him is sightless. He ventures out of the hospital and teams up with a young author, Josella Playton, another lucky person who can see as well. Together they explore the country in the hope of finding more humans who have not been blinded by the meteor shower. Instead, they discover that the triffids have begun to walk and are attacking the blinded humans. The Day of the Triffids relates the story of Bill and Josella's fight to survive against seemingly impossible odds in a world of chaos, violence, and destruction. John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids is an exciting and compelling novel that will keep the reader hanging on to every word, just waiting to see what will happen next. The plot of the book is farfetched yet understandable and interesting, and leaves one wondering if something so horrifying could occur in the world today. It also makes one think about whether or not our advances in science are actually as beneficial as they initially seem. Is the human race getting too smart for their own good? Wyndham strings together a series of events in such a way that every part of the book is engrossing, and he leaves the reader begging for more.
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Summary: Old but not dated
Review: The Day of the Triffids was for many years my favorite sci-fi novel, afterwards it was replaced in that honor place by Dune and Hyperyon.
Nevertheless it still stand in my all-time best novels list and I've reread it once every couple of years.
Is a typical product of the '50, but with a forceful story line, exploring a post catastrophe world. The drama evolves smoothly, griping you up to the last page, It has a somewhat melancholic background, our known world fading into dust and a new one emerging from the ashes in a pitiless confrontation with the Triffids of the title.
Is a novel that fifty years after it was written (and in sci-fi not to be dated is a commendation) still catch your interest and keep you going on.
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Summary: The Day of The Triffids
Review: The novel has an excellent opening. The hero appears to be the only one left who can see, in a world gone blind... then the strange plants begin their attack on humanity. There are some very imaginative and thoughtful elements featuring throughout the book and Wyndham makes the seemingly absurd plot convincing. In summary, the book is extremely readable and has a satisfying 'feel-good' ending. It does however become somewhat dissapointingly nostalgic.
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