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To me this adaptation has some good points and some not so good points. On the plus side, the depiction of the "event" in the sky is pretty cool, and the scenes of London burning and general apocalypse are well done. However, the triffids look synthetic in their movements, the voice-over narration from Dougray Scott is wooden, and the modernization of the plot is cheesy. The idea is that triffids are being harvested because they produce oil that can replace fossil fuels; this is about as cheap a plot device as the changing of the King Kong plot in 1976 to make it about an oil company safari to Skull Island. I gather this wasn't a feature film - it was a made-for-TV movie by… Read more
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I'm afraid I don't quite agree with most of the reviewers here. Granted, the book's concept is magical and the circus does seem compelling at first. But I got tired of the slow pace of developments, and the jumping around of the timeline, and ultimately the writing style (which seemed designed to describe things beautifully but not actually reveal much). Somewhere around the middle of this book I realized I didn't really care what happened to the two main characters, and I lost interest in making the effort to piece together what was really going on. The whole premise that was ruling their lives seemed a bit pathetic and I ended up feeling that the ending didn't really matter to… Read more
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This was a good read, and overall it held my interest. But I found as the mysteries were unravelled, and the truth started to come out, the facts just didn't seem believable to me.
In particular, there was so much going on beneath the surface of this apparently happy community, and so many people were involved in it, that I found it required too much suspension of belief on my part.
The net result is that I won't be in a rush to get the author's other books, which is too bad because I really enjoyed him as a newspaper columnist and had high hopes.
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