false<![CDATA[The Day of the Triffids]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175569344m/530965.jpg53096548In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel <i>The Day of the Triffids</i> to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by <i>The Times</i> (London) as having "all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare."
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere twenty-four hours before is gone forever.
But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world. The Triffids can grow to over seven feet tall, pull their roots from the ground to walk, and kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers. With society in shambles, they are now poised to prey on humankind. Wyndham chillingly anticipates bio-warfare and mass destruction, fifty years before their realization, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia.188517book1951The Day of the Triffidstotal:1852|5:578|4:765|3:414|2:80|1:14|18527368264820523falsefalseMon Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2005Thu Jan 31 11:59:56 -0800 2008Thu Jan 31 12:00:04 -0800 2008
population either dead or blind.
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The Stand was one of my early favorites from junior high school, and I really enjoyed its cousin by Robert McCammon, Swan Song. There's something about the End Of The World that just grabs me and won't let go. Maybe it's the thought that, should the ...more...]]>
53falsefalseSun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1980Tue Sep 11 16:03:15 -0700 2007Sun Sep 16 08:07:38 -0700 2007 Having said that -- it has no literary prete...more...]]>
22falsefalseTue Jan 27 17:07:43 -0800 2009Sat Mar 14 19:45:02 -0700 2009 This book is so full of questions for the characters - like "why didn't you just..." that it's nearly unreadable.
It's a distopian book about nuclear warfare, which on the face of things, sounds pretty interesting.
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31falsefalseTue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007Mon May 07 02:28:43 -0700 2007Sun May 27 15:36:03 -0700 2007 I'm still not sure it deserves its status as 'classic SF', unless it is as an example of one of the first of the 'post-apocalyptic' sub-genre. It's definitely readable, but something about the whole nature of ...more...]]>
43falsefalseThu Feb 07 10:02:06 -0800 2008Fri Aug 15 10:39:28 -0700 2008 I love the proto-sf of the first half of the 20th century, when the lines between sf and horror were more bl...more...]]>
42falsefalseFri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000Sun Sep 16 17:12:38 -0700 2007Sun Sep 16 17:12:38 -0700 2007 Though it's easy to dismiss this book as trite sci-fi schlock, author John Wyndham focuses less o the whiz-bang elements of science and more on th...more...]]>
51falsefalseSat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000Tue Jan 29 22:47:41 -0800 2008Tue Jan 29 23:12:00 -0800 2008 What's worse than a world infested with aggressive carnivorous plants? A world where ...more...]]>
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40falsefalseTue Dec 30 15:07:53 -0800 2008Tue Dec 30 15:09:52 -0800 2008 the book is so much more than that though. it's social commentary and satire which has more in line with the tone of The Host mixed in with some serious end of the ...more...]]>
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"I was reading an interview with Alex Garland about “28 Days Later,” where he said: This is basically me ripping off this book I read when I was a kid, called “Day of the Triffids.” I found it in a used-book store in L.A., called the Iliad, and from the first chapt...more...]]>
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