I finished reading The Day of the Triffids over the weekend and was surprised that the Triffids were basically irrelevant for 80% of the book. I did enjoy that Wyndham thought people were dumb enough to cause themselves three apocalypse level problems at the same time!
Our main character wakes up in hospital to discover that while he was recovering from surgery everyone else looked at some pretty, green meteors and went blind. He also invents a horror cliche! This is quite an exciting opening and then chapter two is just hours of incredibly boring exposition that almost made me give up on the book. But don't worry because we meet more people who can see (they're all posh, only posh people can survive the apocalypse!); fall obsessively in love with the first woman we come across; and enjoy various hijinks which mainly involve looking for supermarkets; oh and if the blindness and killer plants weren't bad enough we've got a plague too!

I can appreciate how influential this book is but it's surprisingly dull.