The failure of humanity in The Day of the Triffids

Add John Wyndham's Day of the Triffids to the list, just below Starship Troopers and Old Man's War, of books I liked quite a bit even though I found them a little morally repugnant. I was impressed with the power with which Wyndham portrays a collapsing world, and the ingenuity of his monsters, but a bit repulsed by his protagonist's inhumanity.

In the aftermath of a bizarre lightshow of unknown origin—suggested causes are a strange comet and an insidious Cold War weapon—most of the population