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The Day of the Triffids

By John Wyndham, Barry Langford (Contributor)

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| eBook | 9780141912110

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When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been blinded by a meteor shower. Now, with civilization in chaos, the triContinue

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A great science fiction novel. I recommend it.

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Stubob72556 said on Jan 21, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

The day of the Triffids or how to create a very good story out of a weird plot

A very catchy book which tackles the theme of human decadence from a weird point of view: our doom is settled by strange plants that can feed on humans and which ultimate purpose is to rule the Earth. Not a purpose they want to achieve consciously, but somewhay something they have in their DNA, some ... (continue)

A very catchy book which tackles the theme of human decadence from a weird point of view: our doom is settled by strange plants that can feed on humans and which ultimate purpose is to rule the Earth. Not a purpose they want to achieve consciously, but somewhay something they have in their DNA, something they are born with.
The story starts with , a man who wakes up in a hospital after being hit by a triffid. He realizes everything is too quiet for being a Wednesday for him it resembles more to a Sunday. Thereafter, he walks in and out of the hospital and he realizes that everyone seems to have turned blind out of the blue, whereas he is not.
Here starts the decadence of the society as we know it, for those lucky ones which can see are sometimes forced to run away from those who can't, but also feel sad for leaving all those people without help them.
Besides it, there is also the issue of the triffids, which until know had been restrained in farms but now are free to wander wherever they want and start to hunt humans on which they can feed.
Humans willing to live will have to imagine a new way of making a living with what is left for them to use, without any help and with triffids lurking all around.
It's a book that changed the apocalyptic stories: with an odd plot (giant plants which are able to communicate with the other of their kind, a world-spread blindness, atomic and biologic weapons hanging from the sky above and a flawless morality which starts to fade away), Wyndham is able to tell a very catchy story, with characters that may be a little flat but fit perfectly the purpose in the story, and a decadent world able to scare due to its reality and well-described landscapes and situations.
I encourage you to give it a try, and I bet you'll get lost in the story and more than once will find yourself wondering 'what would I have done?'

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Lucky July said on Apr 15, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback