The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids

Paperback
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Beschreibung

In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (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.
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2
Alle
4

I really like that different concepts of handling the situation were presented. The protagonist always functioned as a voice of reason in these scenarios, expressing what the author thinks a good person would do or think while side characters were allowed to have questionable views. All of the characters were unique, even if that's not the focus of the book. The writing is really fun and fancy and the structure of the book works well. It's interesting that the Triffids aren't the main threat for the majority of the book. Even today when there is so much media about the world ending, there is enough to make this its own experience. There were only two scenes were I thought I already know this from countless zombie movies, everything else was interesting enough to avoid that thought. After basically forgetting everything from the last book I've read by the author, I'm surprised how good this is. I thought it would be unmemorable but I don't think it is.

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Warum dieser SciFi-Klassiker nur zwei lausige Sterne bekommt und mich obendrein zum Abbruch bewegt hat? Weil ich selbst in den ältesten Büchern des Genres äußerst selten an dermaßen frauenverachtende Kackscheiße wie in diesem Fall gerate und an meine Nerven denken muss. Dazu durchgehend papierblattflache Charaktere, deren Schicksal mir samt und sonders scheißegal ist, und eine Handlung, die holzschnittartiger kaum sein könnte. Das einzig halbwegs interessante und den zweiten Stern ranholende sind die Triffids, die blöderweise nur ganz weit außen am Rande vorkommen. Ich ärgere mich ernstlich um jede Minute, die ich mit diesem Mist verplempert hab.

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