Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham

Of all the books that have lain unread on my bookshelves for a very long time, this is perhaps the most inexplicable.

Day of the Triffids is one of four classic science fiction novel collected in this volume from Marks and Spencers which I received as a Christmas present thirty years ago. The other three; "2001", "I, Robot" and "The Demolished Man" I've read several times each, yet the Triffids has always eluded me.

More peculiar still since I sought out and read almost every other piece of Wyndham's sci-fi, even obscure titles such as "Web" or "The Trouble with Lichen"

Perhaps I was put off, by cowering behind the couch during the BBC adaptation featuring John Duttine. But that didn't stop me reading Dr. Who.

Time to put this right.