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| Rune* Quote | Reply | | John Wyndham posted on: 5/22/2006 8:14:43 PM Ive got The Kraken Wakes by this author through my local reading group tonight. Will hope for a good read  |
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steve12553
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John Wyndham
replied on: 5/22/2006 11:06:16 PM I know the name looked familiar. He wrote The Midwich Cuckoos which was filmed as Village of the Damned, twice and Day of the Triffids which was filmed as a movie and a television series. The Kraken Wakes is supposed to be interesting. |
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Rune*
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John Wyndham
replied on: 5/23/2006 9:15:11 AM There was a program on UK TV a few months back about his life and his books, it was quite interesting 
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steve12553
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John Wyndham
replied on: 5/23/2006 9:47:48 AM quote: The program was probably to regional to get out to me. That's a shame, anybody who's works are drawn on by other media that much has got something going. |
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Rune*
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John Wyndham
replied on: 6/14/2006 5:03:50 PM The Kraken Wakes is very much a story of it's time period, you can see how the politics of the 1950's influences the ideas and feel of this story. |
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steve12553
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John Wyndham
replied on: 7/2/2006 5:07:53 AM Had a power failure tonight at around 9:30. Too early to go to bed on a Saturday night and too dark to do much of anything else. Found my battery-powered, backlit Palm Pilot with a newly loaded copy of John Wyndham's "The Chrysalids". I read a little bit in the dark and it was very interesting. |
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steve12553
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John Wyndham
replied on: 7/14/2006 10:42:32 AM Finished "The Chrysalids" yesterday.Very interesting book. Smooth writing style. Very interesting concepts. |
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Rune*
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John Wyndham
replied on: 7/14/2006 12:06:05 PM Ive heard at my reading group, that's suppose to be his best book. |
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steve12553
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John Wyndham
replied on: 7/15/2006 3:45:19 AM I still may check out some of the others. |
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GOLL
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John Wyndham
replied on: 7/15/2006 5:00:58 AM quote:Having resad Wyndham I'd say they're probably right. The final scenes spoil the overal intergrity of the book to an extent but it's still a worthwhile read......  BTEW, you'll probably notice that polticial influence of the 50s in all of his books in some shape, manner or form. |
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steve12553
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John Wyndham
replied on: 7/15/2006 1:42:00 PM quote:quote:Having resad Wyndham I'd say they're probably right. The final scenes spoil the overal intergrity of the book to an extent but it's still a worthwhile read......<img src=http://70.85.169.212/6764/98/emo/dance3.gif> I think political influence exists in nearly all books. You have to consider the environment in which it was written and filter out the stuff the came from the times and read the underlying story. |
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warmbeachbrat
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John Wyndham
replied on: 7/19/2006 8:42:12 PM I guess the Chrysalids was released in the US as "Re-birth". It's one of my favorites, but I was reading somewhere that it differs a bit from the British version. Does anyone know what the differences are? |
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steve12553
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John Wyndham
replied on: 7/19/2006 11:53:41 PM quote: The version I read was a free ebook and was titled "The Chrysalids". That makes it tough to tell what version I read. |
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