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.The Day of the Triffids (Penguin Modern Classics)

by: John Wyndham

February 22, 2001
Before this i would mainly read fantasy novels. I am studying English at A level and had to pick a non fantasy novel to do. And there isn't a better book to pick. Brilliantly written, great story line and all around superb! Would recomend to any one. I was hooked from the very first page and couldn't put it down. Wyndham draws you deep into the novel and keeps you wanting more even after the last page. BUY THIS BOOK!!!!
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.Chocky (Penguin Books)

by: John Wyndham

January 25, 1973
Young Matthew Gore is an ordinary suburban boy who begins to hold long conversations with a mysterious presence that no-one else can perceive. His worried parents watch fearfully and try to help the boy, as he begins to produce extraordinary artworks and think in binary. His capacity for physics suddenly becomes boundless and he has knowledge which eminent scientists would find quite amazing. This novel is a record of the ambiguously sexed Chocky's impact on the lives of the Gore family.

Chocky is not a work that fits with our go-faster-stripe marked times. Had it been written today, Chocky could have well been a menacing presence, most likely would have been misconstrued as attempting to conquer the mind of this one child and perhaps next, ... Read More:
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.The Chrysalids

by: John Wyndham

August 07, 2008
Young Matthew Gore is an ordinary suburban boy who begins to hold long conversations with a mysterious presence that no-one else can perceive. His worried parents watch fearfully and try to help the boy, as he begins to produce extraordinary artworks and think in binary. His capacity for physics suddenly becomes boundless and he has knowledge which eminent scientists would find quite amazing. This novel is a record of the ambiguously sexed Chocky's impact on the lives of the Gore family.

Chocky is not a work that fits with our go-faster-stripe marked times. Had it been written today, Chocky could have well been a menacing presence, most likely would have been misconstrued as attempting to conquer the mind of this one child and perhaps next, ... Read More:
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.The Day of the Triffids

by: John Wyndham

June 28, 1973
Before this i would mainly read fantasy novels. I am studying English at A level and had to pick a non fantasy novel to do. And there isn't a better book to pick. Brilliantly written, great story line and all around superb! Would recomend to any one. I was hooked from the very first page and couldn't put it down. Wyndham draws you deep into the novel and keeps you wanting more even after the last page. BUY THIS BOOK!!!!
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.The Midwich Cuckoos

by: John Wyndham

January 25, 1973
One of John Wyndham's strongest novels. An imaginative basic idea of an exceptionally understated and subtle alien invasion, which in the wrong hands would be a B-movie idea, is handled with brilliant humanity and consistency by one of science-fiction's best ever writers. A classic.
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.The Chrysalids

by: John Wyndham

June 28, 1973
We think that Wyndham's book 'The Chrysalids' was an extraordinary book with amazing descriptions. This book would be suitable for people of 11 years and upwards. Some of the ideas are quite challenging, but we read it in class, and were able to have discussions about some of these elements, for example whether the Great Horses were a deviation or not.

The book starts with David's dream of a calm sea, and a shining city with flying fish shaped machines, but this is a world that the people of Waknuk have never seen. The introduction made us think initially that the book might be a little boring, but then we met Sophie. Sophie is a normal, fun loving girl...or is she...

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.The Kraken Wakes

by: John Wyndham

August 07, 2008
We think that Wyndham's book 'The Chrysalids' was an extraordinary book with amazing descriptions. This book would be suitable for people of 11 years and upwards. Some of the ideas are quite challenging, but we read it in class, and were able to have discussions about some of these elements, for example whether the Great Horses were a deviation or not.

The book starts with David's dream of a calm sea, and a shining city with flying fish shaped machines, but this is a world that the people of Waknuk have never seen. The introduction made us think initially that the book might be a little boring, but then we met Sophie. Sophie is a normal, fun loving girl...or is she...

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.Trouble with Lichen

by: John Wyndham

August 07, 2008
We think that Wyndham's book 'The Chrysalids' was an extraordinary book with amazing descriptions. This book would be suitable for people of 11 years and upwards. Some of the ideas are quite challenging, but we read it in class, and were able to have discussions about some of these elements, for example whether the Great Horses were a deviation or not.

The book starts with David's dream of a calm sea, and a shining city with flying fish shaped machines, but this is a world that the people of Waknuk have never seen. The introduction made us think initially that the book might be a little boring, but then we met Sophie. Sophie is a normal, fun loving girl...or is she...

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.The Day of the Triffids

by: John Wyndham

August 07, 2008
Before this i would mainly read fantasy novels. I am studying English at A level and had to pick a non fantasy novel to do. And there isn't a better book to pick. Brilliantly written, great story line and all around superb! Would recomend to any one. I was hooked from the very first page and couldn't put it down. Wyndham draws you deep into the novel and keeps you wanting more even after the last page. BUY THIS BOOK!!!!
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.The Chrysalids (Penguin Modern Classics)

by: John Wyndham

February 03, 2000
We think that Wyndham's book 'The Chrysalids' was an extraordinary book with amazing descriptions. This book would be suitable for people of 11 years and upwards. Some of the ideas are quite challenging, but we read it in class, and were able to have discussions about some of these elements, for example whether the Great Horses were a deviation or not.

The book starts with David's dream of a calm sea, and a shining city with flying fish shaped machines, but this is a world that the people of Waknuk have never seen. The introduction made us think initially that the book might be a little boring, but then we met Sophie. Sophie is a normal, fun loving girl...or is she...

'The Chrysalids' is great because it doesn't give us all of the information straight away, ... Read More:
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