
The Day of the Triffids
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Narrated by:
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Kingsley Ben-Adir
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By:
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John Wyndham
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 realised 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 24 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, 50 years before their realisation, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia.
About the author: John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Benyon Harris was born in 1903, the son of a barrister. He tried a number of careers including farming, law, commercial art and advertising, and started writing short stories, intended for sale, in 1925. From 1930 to 1939 he wrote stories of various kinds under different names, almost exclusively for American publications, while also writing detective novels. During the war he was in the Civil Service and then the Army. In 1946 he went back to writing stories for publication in the USA and decided to try a modified form of science fiction, a form he called 'logical fantasy'.
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Narrator does a great job as well.
Great story!
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i absolutely loved it and would encourage anyone who likes thrillers to read it.
a zombie story without zombies
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Surprisingly relevant
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Classic Excellent
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Captivating
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For a 75 yr old book (or so) it’s pretty good.
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Better Than the Movie
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Eerie
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Awesome
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The narration, however, was really lazy. Having heard numerous great performances I was so surprised that this one was so unrehearsed. Kingsley frequently reads voices in the wrong accent before realising and correcting himself. He has little ability to predict punctuation and sentence structure and almost no library of dialects at his command. You either get a bad Michael Caine impersonation for about 10 different characters or a standard middle class English accent for everyone else.
I realise that Wyndhams writing is rather ‘Jolly good old boy’, so making it more contemporary in performance is a good idea - but this feels like amateur work. Not in the same league as so many great readers on audible. Such a shame - fortunately the story is good enough to survive it.
Great story - shame about the narration.
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