Creative Bristol sponsors The Great Reading Adventure, a huge city-wide reading project where people from Bristol (Bristolians?) read the same book at the same time. This year (two months ago, actually...better late than never!) it's Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. The CB website offers an amazingly well-done PDF reading guide and even a graphic serial! I read the book several years ago and remember liking it a whole lot. If you haven't read this SF classic or you have only seen the terribly done movie, you should get this book.
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Posted by John DeNardo at Monday April 05, 2004 at 12:04 AM
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Wow, even I can find time to read a graphic serial! In fact, I just read the first chapter and it looks right up my alley. Call me Mr. Apocalypse.
Posted by Kevin on Monday April 05, 2004 at 8:43 AM at 8:43 AM
Being an afficionado of apocalyptic fiction, I assayed the online graphic novel version of Day of the Triffids mentioned in this post. I have some inquiries regarding the story:
- Is it plausible to abandon an entire civilization simply because they're blind? I thought not. It seemed there were enough people with sight to restore the necessary civil services.
- The graphic novel version of the story didn't really explain the origins of the plague. Did it come with the 'comets', and why didn't it affect everyone - not just the blind?
It's entirely possible that the graphic novel omitted key sections that expostulated upon the areas proposed by these queries.
By the way - the choice of colloquialisms used in this exposition are an effort to elevate our Lix score.
Posted by Kevin on Wednesday April 07, 2004 at 8:28 AM at 8:28 AM