Lord of the Flies (Abridged Audio Edition)

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Summary: One of the Great Novels of the 20th Century
Review: This is a novel that could have only been written in the 20th century, the century of unparalleled horrors in which humanity can no longer delude itself with the optimistic ideas of progress that so entranced the 19th century. As to the young people who are forced to read this for classes I would say please read this book again in twenty years' time; trust me, your opinion will be different then. This is a book about children, but it is not a book for children and your teachers do not seem to grasp the difference.

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Summary: Absolutely great!
Review: This book was required reading for my advanced language arts class. I thought about giving up on it in the start, but then stuck with it until the end. I truely enjoyed it. If you are bored with it then you should stick with it because the ending is fantastic!

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Summary: Expresses the realities of war, island is microcosm of war
Review: This book shows people what happens when you face the realities of war. Fear,hope, and courage are all spliced into one which is something that you don't often see in one book. This book shows people how children's fears lead them to fighting. The more they fight the farther and farther they feel from home.

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Summary: *WARNING* DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!
Review: Hola- We read this book in our Freshman english class. The overall review was that it wasn't good, in fact it was BAD! We recommend that you do not read this book. We have nothing against the author, but we perfer reading interesting books, unlike this one. We didn't like the deaths, savagness, or irresponsibility of the children. THey needed to communicate with each other. If this book had a sequel I think that would be boring, but atleast you'd fing out what happened. THe book went to slow and the plot used too much symbolism. This book deserves 0 stars, but that wasn't an option! Hasta Luego- iSABeL and r0sA

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Summary: Lord of the Flies is a confusing novel, but worth reading.
Review: William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies was an intresting novel. At first, it took much time to figure out the symbolism Golding was expressing. In the beginning it was extremely hard to for me to follow. I found myself quite dumbfounded at times when their were hidden meanings behind the plot. Without my teachers explanation I wouldn't have been able to get through the novel and understand it like I should. I enjoyed the characters, the each came to life by Golding's description's, and their actions and behavior. I thought it was intresting, that a "beastie" can be imaginary, and hidden inside one's self. However, even though I was complexed, when reading the novel's resolution it clicked, and I was at once understanding the book. I am enamoured by the novel's theme; at any age, their is always a seed of evil inside of you.

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Summary: This book sucked!
Review: This book was very disturbing, sick and wrong. Other than the fact that it was very boring and lost my attention, it also very much revolved around murder, cruelty, and other acts of meanness in the second half in the book. We see enough of this on the news every day, we don't need to read about 12-year-olds doing these horrible things. We do not recommend this book to any reader.

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Summary: We did not find it that interesting. It was not the best bo
Review: This book was a boring book. We found it hard to stay awake while reading it. The descriptions were extremely vague and this resulted in unclear pictures of the surroundings. Even though this book is considered a "classic" we thought that it should not have generated the responses it did from the public.

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Summary: It was not the greatest book
Review: We did not think that the book was very good because up unitl the last few chapters it was soooooooo boring. It took a while for the book to get interesting. It was very disturbing to see 11 and 12 year old boys wanting to kill each other and hurt each other. We liked how there was a lot of symbolism in the book and how it related to what was going on in the time period in which the book took place.

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Summary: Lord of the Flies was creative, but lost our attention.
Review: We think that the book, Lord of the Flies, was just 'ok'. It was an intense way of looking at a goodlife. We believe that the message of the novel was always have hope. We thought it could have ended better, but it pulled it all together well. Although we were bored at times, we liked the way Golding had items symbolize ideas. The book was different then ones we have read in the past, therefore, it broadened our views of good versus evil.

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Summary: The novel explains how people react in other situations.
Review: The novel showed people trying to make a society out of the situation they were in. It also showed, evil, fear, and hope that the boys experience on the island in the form of many symbolic elements in the novel.