This is brilliant! I've enjoyed the silly B-grade horror movie versions of this book, and was pleasantly surprised that the recent adaptation was reasonably faithful to the original story. It was really well written, and it was interesting to note that it is the blindness and decay of human civilisation that are the far more menacing threats in the story. The triffids are also sinister, but in a creepy "oh look at those plants that move and occasionally sting people to death" kind of way, rather than "arrrrggghhhhh!!! The plants are out to get us and we're all going to die!!!!!" kind of way. It is almost like John Wyndham has decided to set up a few little pockets of civilisation to incubate like petri dishes, seeing which society will get on the best in the circumstances. Very, very interesting, and still so pertinent!