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Summary: A true classic
Review: As you no doubt know, this book i san attempt to portray the evil throughout history and the fall of innocence. This book does just that perfectly. At the beginning of the book, nearly all as well. The turning point is the slaughter of a pig, an event whose symbolism can become more clear later. The Cliffs Notes available for a low price greatly enhance the reading, and define several British words used. Also, the characters and their allegorical symbolism are explained. This book is highly recommended.
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Summary: Summer Reading
Review: I had to read this book for summer reading, so of course, I waited until the last minute and had two days to read it and get it. I didn't want to read it so that affected my opinion on it at the time. I think that if I would have had more time and chosen it myself, I would have enjoyed it thoroughly. Overall I think it was very interesting looking at how Piggy and everyone formed friendships or enemies and how everyone evovled.
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Summary: Good Stuff
Review: The book "Lord of the Flies" is one of the great masterpieces of english literature. The story is about a group of British school children strande on an island. Soon things get to be very bad and people are dying...Read On
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Summary: The horror could still be worse...
Review: At this moment, while I'm writing this review there were 632 reviews more, so, why to write another? Just because I have just reread the novel and I feel the necessity to share some ideas. First, although only three boys die out of many (we never know exactly how many boys live in the island)this novel is about "horror" just as it is in The Heart of Darkness by Conrad. Second, all characters are male characters. That is very important in the novel, I think. Try to speculate about the same novel, the same island, the same problems faced by the boys but mixed with female characters. In that case you could go to the extremes: a love story or a double horror story. Third, if you have read Blindness by Saramago you will find many curious and interesting similitudes. Put a group of persons under extreme conditions (boys abandoned on an island or a whole country infected by a new kind of blindness) and you will have the perfect situation for the surgement of "the beast", that thing so inmersed into human soul that is always trying to get out of the cage of "civilization". Anyway, Lord of the Flies is a superb novel and it will keep producing many new ideas into quite different minds.
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Summary: A fascinating nightmare
Review: This novel tries to show the origin or all the bad in the world. The answer give a group of British schoolboys on a lonely island: they create a society determined of cruelty. The moral of the thought provoking book is that all the bad is caused by the bad in the human himself. the theory of baal-zebub. It's a story full of surprises and easy to read. I can't recommend it to everybody, it's interesting but not great.
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Summary: Lord Of The Flies
Review: When I first starting to read this book I thought it was very boring but at the end it was so exciting and I caouldn't even put the book down it was so good I loved it. I liked how the author told the story I think they could of put I better begining. I advise people to read this.
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Summary: Mrs. Lehnardt review
Review: When I read the book Lord of the Flies I thought it was a very realistic book. When you put a group of people on an island you are going to have the one that wants to be the leader with rules,laws, and punishment. And there will be one who wants to have anarchy, freedom, and no violence. When the kids were put on the island they had everything in order until one person started to get ahead of the pack and wanted to do things his way and start his own group.... they either go with the one who is smart or the one that wants to go live wild. The book didn't realy catch my attention until I had to read it for school. Thats when I started to think of it and pay attention to the book. After we read the book in class, we watched the movie. It wasn't as good as the novel, but it gave me more of an idea of what the island and kids looked like. Many of the actions taken in the book were wrong and taught kids that its ok to hurt or kill someone. When the little boy was stabbed to death the night of the feast it was alright because they thought it was the beast. But when they found out it wasn't the beast they still had no feelings or regrets. When piggy was trying to get his glasses back from the Ralphy's group he was crushed with a bolder and killed. The kids intentially killed this boy and had no regrets. Many of these kids even turned to Ralphy when they saw he had food and shelter. The kids left the good group to go to the bad one and tryed to kill there old leader. At the end all the kids turned against the good and tryed to kill him and he was saved by a man who took him away from the island, but the book I gave four stars just for the simple fact that its suppoesed to be for kids and yet its telling you its ok to kill. Other than that the book is great and easy to read. There isn't that many big words so its kool.
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Summary: Hard To Follow!
Review: I had to read this book in my 9th Grade English Honors class, and couldn't wait to get it over with! It used terminology that was hard to understand and I never actually understood what was going on until we went over it as a class, and even then I still had trouble! Now, for summer reading I am having to read To Kill a Mockingbird and it is pretty good! Not even comparible to Lord of the Flies! To sum it up in one word, YUCK!!!
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Summary: lord of the flies
Review: The book is very good. It is really realistic. Tells of survival and what happens when the worse comes.
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Summary: Exciting and Disturbing
Review: I find it difficult to fully express my opinions about this book, which I finished last night. On the one hand, it was extremely exciting and fast paced in its general plot and description, and this made it fun to read. On the other hand, it was full of dark, ominous, foreboding, and at times downright terrifying symbolism. I am normally not a big fan of excessive symbolism, and this book had more than I had ever encountered. This alone would not make me dislike a book though. I found myself genuinely loathing the savages, and this, while it drew me into the book, also made me hate reading it. I coulnd't shake the feeling that something terrible was going to happen, and when it did the feeling didn't go away. All things considered, I certainly feel that this book is superbly written and does a wonderful job of conveying its message. However, I coulnd't stand the fact that the message was basically that humans are inherently evil. I couldn't disagree more, and while I may be labeled a deluded optimist, I can't bring myself to believe that some schoolboys on a desert island would end up killing each other. I found the thought most disturbing and depressing, and that was my overall impression of the book. All in all, this was a wonderfully done book with a clearly conveyed message, and I am glad that I read it. However, I disagreed with the message, and found the book to be quite disturbing. My review couln't be much more mixed up, could it? I would suggest that you read this book, but be prepared to be shocked and detested.
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