She Treads Softly: The Day of the Triffids

Saturday, April 18, 2009

The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids (1981)

Starring: John Duttine, Emma Relph

Director: Ken Hannam

This 1981 BBC six-part series presentation of The Day of the Triffids is the best adaptation of the book. We first saw this in the USA around 1986 on PBS and have been waiting for our own copy ever since.

We will likely watch The Day of the Triffids (1963) starring Howard Keel and Nicole Maurey tonight.

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John Updike's six rules for reviewing:

1. Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.

2. Give him enough direct quotation--at least one extended passage--of the book's prose so the review's reader can form his own impression, can get his own taste.

3. Confirm your description of the book with quotation from the book, if only phrase-long, rather than proceeding by fuzzy precis.

4. Go easy on plot summary, and do not give away the ending.

5. If the book is judged deficient, cite a successful example along the same lines, from the author's oeuvre or elsewhere. Try to understand the failure. Sure it's his and not yours?

To these concrete five might be added a vaguer sixth, having to do with maintaining a chemical purity in the reaction between product and appraiser.....Review the book, not the reputation.... Better to praise and share than blame and ban. The communion between reviewer and his public is based upon the presumption of certain possible joys in reading, and all our discriminations should curve toward that end.