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Despite seeing various different TV and film adaptations I‘d never read the novel. As good as some of those are the novel outflanks them all. I can see why it‘s regarded as one of the great sci-fi novels. Where Wyndham is so good is in creating a very real sense of a global disaster and building that world, but at the same time keeping it personal and making you care about the individuals. A superb piece of work simultaneously bleak and hopeful.

Although not his debut novel, this was the first work that Wyndham published without a pseudonym. Bill Masen, bandages over his eyes, wakes up after a bizarre meteorite shower has passed overhead. Removing the bandages he finds that everyone wandering the streets is now blind. And then Triffids, plants taller than humans, begin attacking. Definitely sounds like the premise of a campy film. Oddly enough, it actually works surprisingly well. (cont)

#two4tuesday @TheSpineView
Thanks for the tag @The_Penniless_Author 😀 💕

1) Generally post-apocalyptic, although I like both when done well.

2) There are lots - The Walking Dead springs to mind as one of the first comics I read (although I still need to go back and finish it). I'm gonna go Triffids though!

I still maintain that the best of this genre is to be found in videogame format - The Last of Us and Fallout, for example 🥰🙃

#BeginsWith #Day

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Carnivorous and disturbing plants decide to use a freaky event which blinds the world to rise up and cause humanity to revert back to their more primitive ways.

Triffids are creepy and a little weird and nothing is really given away about what they are or how they came to be on earth, our main character Bill somehow manages to survive and find happiness throughout the shitshow of the apocalypse 👍🏼🤣 good job Bill!

Another classic down 🎉

Somewhat sentient, carnivorous plants, an extraterrestrial disaster striking most of the world blind and a fatal plague convene to wreck havoc on suburban Britain. The fallout prompts a philosophical debate over how to rebuild society. Considering Wyndham had a free hand, the reasoning and conclusions felt very contrived and unfounded. The sci-fi and fight for survival were compelling but the politics let it down for me. 6/10

I was prepared for some sexism, but I was not prepared for extended philosophical discussions attempting to justify the figurative fucking of the blind and the somewhat more literal of women. The sexism is most evident when one community “rescues“ the residents of a local all-girls school for the blind school for their wombs rather than to enlist them as instructors for all the newly blind.

The cool thing about reading classic literature is learning that words like “glory hole” have other meanings. 🤔

When your snack matches your blanket 😁

Hoping this classic has aged well for me as a first time reader ...

There's nothing more English than a seemingly innocuous plant - large but docile, present in most domestic gardens, taking advantage of an astronomical fluke to rise up and strike down mankind, hoping to take over and feast upon our remains!

Bill's a reluctant hero who benefits from the fluke of being one of the few people not blinded by the meteor shower. It's a delicious irony that this is because his eyes have already been struck by a triffid sting, placing him in hospital when the bizarre display of bright lights takes place. He sets about rebuilding his life when the triffids rise up in a typically self-effacing way, and obtains a modicum of personal happiness in the process.

“It's going to be a very queer world - what's left of it.“

“The public had by this time grown out of thinking triffids freakish.“

A copy of the brilliant 'The Day of the Triffids' I came across today in my favourite independent bookstore. 💫

After most people in the world are blinded by a mysterious meteor shower, a very aggressive species of plant (which can walk and spit venom) starts killing people. 🌴💦

I highly recommend this classic! 💯

“But it's absurd. Plants talking!“

“All I know is that as I bent forward a sting slashed viciously at my face and smacked against the wire of the mask.“

When strange lights in the sky cause the majority of the population to be #blinded, murderous plants (some kind of giant walking rhubarb, if this still from the 1981 TV series is anything to go by) start taking over Britain.

#SeptemberSenses @Eggs

#3Books #ThatHaveBeenMadeIntoATVSeries

Pride & Prejudice 1995, Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle bringing Darcy and Lizzie to life in the definitive version of Austen‘s classic.

All Creatures Great and Small, 1978-1990, Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison, and Tricki Woo.

The Day of The Triffids, 1981, saw John Duttine fighting some giant rhubarb.

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Early 50's novel of an apparent meteor shower which blinds everyone and a guy wakes up blindfolded in a hospital, after unwrapping it he discovers an aggressive species of plant is wreaking havoc and killing everyone they come across.

I loved this book and it's one of my favourite of the genre. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

#postapocalyptic
#bookrecommendation

What a coincidence!
Wednesday that feels like a Sunday.

Today is Canada Day so it does feel like a Sunday! 🇨🇦

#bookishthingsthatmakemehappy
#classicschallenge2020

Just started re-reading it and already remembering how much I love this book.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #bookspin
What a great sci-fi classic! And very appropriate for these trying times. This was written in 1951 and I still extremely relatable to the world and it‘s problems today. There is a female character named Josella who is very progressive for 1951 which is so wonderful to read. And this definitely is a circumstance where the book is better than the movie

I completed the Easter egg hunt!
#EasterExtravaganza

1. Hard sci fi
2. War of the Worlds
3. Classical sci fi with aliens!

#sundayfunday

Listening to Day of the Triffids with Liam. We're stuck indoors in New Zealand during a cyclone. I find it very irritating that The Day of the Triffids doesn't link its novelties—namely the triffids and the green meteors. “Change one thing“ or “World Plus One“ isn't gospel, but changing exactly two big things that could so easily be linked? De gustibus, but I find it lazy.

I'm curious if old-time sci-fi had more of an emphasis on the science part 🤔 going to give this one a try. And it looks like my family got me one of the original 1951 copies :) unfortunately, not the first edition, but still. anyone read this?

A #RayOfLight (ok, numerous lights in the sky) blinds most of the population and tended them defenceless against murderous plants (giant rhubarb in the case of this 1981 TV adaption starring John Duttine).

#Movember @Cinfhen

I am not generally a sci-fi fan, but I truly enjoyed this sci-fi thriller in which a lucky few people in the world still have their sight, and must fight to survive amidst the threat of disease, starvation, and the deadly sting of the triffid plants. I loved the writing style, the story, and the narrator‘s voice. Fun and engaging, yet not a super quick read (despite being less than 200 pages) due to the witty and intricate writing.

This is one of the few books in which I saw the TV show first before reading the book. It was not my plan but I put the TV show in my Netflix queue, in last place mind you, and of course it was delivered. I watched the 1981 British TV series staring John Duttine. My husband likened the series to the original Star Trek.

On the night of the green flashes, those that watched became blind and those that did not were spared their sight. Triffids are walking plants that had deadly stingers. The story follows Bill Masen, a sighted man, in this apocalyptic world where chaos reigns. Science fiction is one of my least favorite genre of literature. I have read one other Wyndham book Midwich Cuckoos which I enjoyed. #1001books

The few remaining sighted people in Britain sought #shelter when the rest of the population had been blinded by a meteor strike and some murderous rhubarb (at least that‘s what the poor special effects of the early 1980s would have us believe!) took advantage of the situation.

#LetsTravelAugust
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@OriginalCyn620

Ice cream season is finally here, yes!
I was really drawn to the premise of this dystopian/sci-fi classic. The majority of the world's population seens to have gone blind after a strange meteor shower and, suddenly, the world as we know it is gone and humongous man-killing plants, the triffids, roam free. I was expecting more action but this turned out to be an suspiciously current reflection on (hu)man's effect on the environment and nature.

#currentlyreading ☀️☀️☀️

Holy genre-definer, Batman. THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS has obviously had a huge influence on all the post-apocalyptic fiction that's come after it, and that makes it fun to read through an academic lens. It's also very much a How Stuff Works book, with a strong emphasis on the mechanics of survival. Yay!

That said, it's super dated in its treatment of gender and disability, and the ending doesn't entirely satisfy given all the lead-up to it. Poop.

Sometimes you stage a photo shoot to show the good people of Litsy your excellent copy of THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, but you can't get a shot that shows both the book and the little black dog who's helping you read it. Then the little red dog who usually helps you with readerly stuff bursts in and tries to EAT the book, and you give the whole thing up.

Here's my December spending log and 2018 total. My excellent GENERATION X haul at Curiosity bumped my total way up, as did THE GROWLER (a fabulous BC craft beer guide) and my lucky Joan D. Vinge find at Bastion Books. Otherwise, I thrifted a bunch of stuff and spent gift cards.

My full year total is higher than I'd like, but I always knew it would be. I tried to buy one new book per month at the beginning of the year, and those ain't cheap.

Though dated, I enjoy all versions of this plant-based apocalypse. The 2009 TV series, the 1962 film (by far my favorite), the radio drama, etc. When most of the world is blinded by a meteor shower, this crazy ass plant decides to take over the world.

So here is my current snapshot of where I stand in the #litsyatoz2018 books-into-film version.

Hmm. How can I describe Day of the Triffids? Think Walking Dead with walking plants instead of zombies and the plants stab and kill you instead of biting and killing you. It even starts the same as TWD - the hero wakes up in a hospital unaware that the apocalypse started. Things that make you go hmm. #justsaying #litsyatoz2018

So, for letter “D” of #litsyatoz Books 📚 into Film 🎥 I chose The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham.

I found this to be a very ordinary post-apocalyptic novel. It was written in the 50‘s, so I‘m guessing it has inspired others. Nonetheless, it was a quick read and still enjoyable.

I had no idea this was a book. I saw the movie when I was a kid. (It was in black and white.) This is actually a postcard I got in a box of 100 classic sci-fi covers from my local favorite bookstore. Written in 1951 and the movie came out in 1962.

I was emerging as my own master, and no longer a cog. It might well be a world full of horrors and dangers that I should have to face, but I could take my own steps to deal with it - I would no longer be shoved hither and thither by forces and interests that I neither understood nor cared about.

1️⃣ Iris Versicolor.
2️⃣ Carrots and mushrooms.
3️⃣ We have a small patch of carrots and radishes, plus lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries and one brocoli in pots. We have two very new house plants, grown by our son in school, so hopefully they won't die a violent death like the previous ones.
4️⃣ Ok.
#gardenparty @REPollock

I also went to the Salvation Army to find clothes. I found a few things and they were having a book sale. And we know how dangerous those are. One book that is missing was about the writer of “Out of Africa”. I gave that to my mum because she has been wanting it for years.

#TBRtemptation post 5! Another horror classic. This is the first installment in the Triffids series. Bill Masen misses the UK's most spectacular meteorite shower since his eyes are bandaged over. Removing them the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He meets Josella, who has also kept her sight, and they leave the city. But beware the Triffids(!): tall, walking, deadly plants! #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎