Status Updates From The Day of the Triffids

After about 50% of the book, The Day of the Triffids surprised me. I expected monsters, but found something more personal and unsettling. Humanity’s blindness makes fear immediate and practical. I’m less interested in the technical backstory, but the human reactions, choices, and shifting power feel very real. Calmly written, yet genuinely scary.

I stopped reading pretty quickly in. Whats interesting is I just finished reading a noir book that had all the classic sexist tropes but it feel tongue-in-cheek. I stopped reading Day of the Triffids as it quickly felt like the sexism and way people were presented was more serious.