Lord of the Flies

  • skylight.

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    I actually hated this at first (mainly because it was required reading) but then I grew into loving it. Especially now, looking back on when I first read it.
    I really want to see the movie, but I'm afraid it'll ruin my perception of it, as all books-first-then-movies movies do. :roll:

    Unlike most of the posters above, I actually couldn't stand Piggy.
    I adored Simon and Ralph though.
    August 30th, 2009 at 06:07am
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    I tried reading the book before online, but I couldn't concentrate on it (because it was online)
    I should really try checking it out from the library again when I have the time.
    August 30th, 2009 at 07:11pm
  • S.A.M. Fonceca

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    I'm reading the book for English right now. Honestly, it's one of the worst books I have ever read. It's just so annoying in my opinion. I can't stand the characters, except for Piggy. We haven't finished it yet, but we only have a chapter or two yet. I have a feeling that it isn't going to be getting any better.
    September 26th, 2009 at 02:21am
  • lost.in.time

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    I had to read the book last year in English. And then we watched the movie.
    I don't know exactly how I feel about it. I don't exactly hate it; but I don't love it. It really just gives me mixed vibes.

    I love the imagery and the characters are very vivid. I just don't know - something about Piggy's death just makes me doubt what I've read. I don't know, my feelings are pretty undescribable. Ahaha. :)

    And unlike many others, I thought Piggy was quite annoying.
    September 27th, 2009 at 07:12am
  • nashville owen

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    I just read it for my Honors English class. Poor Simon Cry
    September 28th, 2009 at 09:36pm
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    I read it last year, on my own.
    Beautifully, beautifully written and described.
    I've never read about someone cracking their head open in such a beautiful and poetic way.
    September 29th, 2009 at 02:02am
  • Rave on Spaceboy

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    I just finished LOTF this morning and loved it.

    I can see what people say with it moving along slowly, but it didn't turn me off because the nature of the book was not to leave the reader on the edge of their seat, it didn't need to move along excitedly to prove a point, and I think a lot of meaning can be found in just the detached writing style alone, y'know?

    Like when Golding let on that the freckled boy was dead, he didn't lead up to any great unveiling, he just said it, and in that way he mirrored the nature of what the boys became on the island. He repeated that with the death of Simon, and Piggy aswell.

    Also I can see where people have said that they couldn't easily relate to the characters, but the characters aren't supposed to be relatible, are they? They're supposed to individually symbalize a concept.
    That's why when Piggy was killed (along the the conch shattered) it wasn't just the death of Piggy, it was the death of sense, and order; the finality of doom if you will.

    Using that ideaology you can really read into the concept of the rivalry between Jack and Ralph.

    Also I thought it was quite clever that the death planned for Ralph at the end was the same death of the mother pig... quite clever.

    I love critical analysis...
    July 19th, 2010 at 07:17am
  • midnightwalrus

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    kafka.:
    I had to read it last year for Literature too. I really enjoyed it though I never got to finish it. But I don't usually finish books ._.

    I think that even more than the plot I loved the scenery. I have a perfect image on the almost hypnotizing beach in my mind. It actually was inspiration for one of my first short stories.

    It's definitely a must read. If you hear about the plotline you'll think it's really crappy, but when you actually start reading you realize it's beautiful.
    That is Golding's goal-create a vivid setting for the novel. He does this because of the symbolism of the setting. His use of the island as an entity of its own (representative of the world, or, more specifically, Europe) and the big pink rock as a safe haven, etc. All in all, this is one of my favorite books from high school, and one of the best social commentaries I've ever encountered. If you like LOTF, read Animal Farm.
    September 17th, 2010 at 10:09pm
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    S.A.M. Fonceca:
    I'm reading the book for English right now. Honestly, it's one of the worst books I have ever read. It's just so annoying in my opinion. I can't stand the characters, except for Piggy. We haven't finished it yet, but we only have a chapter or two yet. I have a feeling that it isn't going to be getting any better.
    Look at it a a "big picture". Instead of taking the characters at face value, look at them the way Golding intends: as a commentary of the different subsections of modern society.
    September 17th, 2010 at 10:11pm
  • The Marty Parade

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    I hated it when I had to read it for school a couple of years ago. I couldn't get into it and I thought it was really boring. It's the first book I've ever put down within the first pages so I feel like I should give it another try now that I'm older and hopefully more ready for it lmfao
    October 4th, 2010 at 12:37pm
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    Aloha! (=

    I read 'Lord of The Flies' about six months ago, and I enjoyed it very much. At the start I found it quite hard to get into, but once I got past the first few chapters I was hooked. Yes, I found it quite disturbing, speacially when they began to kill each other. But then again, it wasn't exactly supposed to be 'light-and-fluffy' was it? Haha. I found it a bit hard to read because of the way it was writen, and some of the concepts weren't easy to understand, but I got it and enjoyed it.

    x
    October 7th, 2010 at 10:25pm
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    I read Lord Of The Flies a couple of summers ago when I found an old copy at a give-away, I have a certain fondess for books that are falling apart.
    Anyway, I cite it as being one of my favorite novels.
    Goldings vision of the island, how everything was just this side of being clear, like it was obscurred by childish imagination. The Beast being the most noteable example.
    How democracy disolved into segregation and dictatorship, and the depiction of characters, not as people to relate to, but as metaphors to analyze.
    The whole book to me is perfection, as soon as I was finished I told my brother to read it, and eventually bought him his own copy.

    Golding has a way of showing the cruelty inherent to humanity, he had a gift for it. Rites of Passage is another one of his that shows our capacity for cruelty.
    December 8th, 2012 at 09:39pm
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    I remember reading that when I was in English last year. I had thought it was pretty good - no one else in the class shared the same feelings of liking it - but it's kind of ironic how that happens, but then movies like the Hunger Games come out as a full success and everyone is talking about it. xD
    January 26th, 2013 at 04:21am
  • warmaiden

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    I've read the book last year for English II and though I had a crappy teacher, I must admit that the book was beautiful, give or take some parts.

    The main fact that these boys lose all control of their minds and literally just go insane with no democracy or law over their heads was portrayed brilliantly. I don't think I've read a book quite like it before and while others may in fact see it as a "dumb" or "stupid" book, it holds a lot of meaning. It was one of the few books in my English class that I really liked.
    February 24th, 2013 at 06:01pm
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    I had to read the book for English last year and I absolutely hated it. I had to force myself to read it because of the exam and I've never had to force myself to read a book before. His writing style was terrible, in my opinion. The characters were great, though, and I do like Jack because he seems so familiar and realistic, just like Piggy does, too. That's about the only thing I liked about the book (asides from the death and "gore" bits because I just love those things in general, any way).
    February 26th, 2013 at 09:56pm