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Summary: Really made you think
Review: Lord of the Flies by William Golding was an excellent book that can be read on multiple levels--literal, symbolical, and political. This novel really made one think about events and people in this world. For instance, Piggy and Raplph are symbolic representations of abstract things in life. After reading Catcher in the Rye, this book was very good. This book offers much to the reader and to a twentieth century world where genocide and world wide destruction is possible. Excellent read for anyone.
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Summary: A brilliant achievement. Symbolism beyond comparison.
Review: This is my favorite book yet (and by the way, I've read quite a few.) Not only is the symbolism masterful, but the book is thoroughly interesting and captivating as well. I am shocked at some of the criticisms of this work of such epic proportions. I honestly can't figure how anyone could find fault with it. I understand that it's not the most enjoyable of experiences to "read books for school," but this one is not one of the "boring" kind. The book is beautifully written and Golding's use of metaphor, allegory, and personification is consummate. Golding pulls all he can into this book, details from all walks of life. The book is incredible, as there is a vibrantly suspenseful surface story with ingenious characters and plot, as well as richly deep undertones of life and the depths of human heart and consciousness. All you have to do is read it.
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Summary: The reader from St. Louis is dead wrong
Review: Hey, reader from St. Louis: I don't think so. Yeah, forget Lord of the Flies -- just read Into Thin Air! Are you kidding? This is one of the greatest works of the 20th century. While you are at it, why not read some Danielle Steele -- it's better than this Golding garbage!
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Summary: If only it got interesting earlier on......
Review: I would have absolutely loved this book, had it not been for the simple fact that it is so slow moving. It doesn't even start gettingcool until the last three or four chapters of the book (or more specificly, where the kids break up into two groups). I also have to say, that the characters are kind of flat (with the exception of Piggy, who is probably the best one in the story). I liked the concept behind the story a lot, but not much of its characters. I think that if I was ever asked to recommend a book that told a good story of a group of people "free" from a totalitarian rule (in this case, the rule of grown ups), then I would be more tempted to recommend "Animal Farm" then "Lord of the Flies", although I might have to think twice.
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Summary: A more perfect word
Review: I am a pre-service teacher required to write up lesson and unit plans by the bucket. Golding's text has given me inspiration for my best unit plan ever. Thanks to him, I will graduate with honors. I will teach his word and try to share the knowledge I glenned from the text. I'm not some weirdo - I'm an English Major!
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Summary: Very boring book that makes almost no sense
Review: This book is a very boring book. Maybe I am just saying that because I had to read it for school, but this book doesn't make any sense. I see no point in this story whatsoever. There are some good points that are wonderfully written. other spots in the story are unbelievably hard to understand. This is not one of those books that you can't put down; moreover, it is one that you can't pick up. The plot is very hard to follow and in the end none of the main points seem to all tie up in some main ending. Maybe the point of the author was to leave you hanging, but I don't know. Oh well, don't waste your time with this one and try either OF MICE AND MEN or INTO THIN AIR.
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Summary: great use of symbolism
Review: no real review here
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Summary: fine
Review: What my teacher does is she'll have us read a book and then if there's a movie version she allows us to view it. i actually hated until the last page. it was touching though when the soldier came at the end. although people made fine it a boring ang intolerable read, i thought the movie was fabulous, and since i was with two of my friends at the time, i had fun.
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Summary: A book which makes you think!
Review: Golding masterfully molds his characters in order to portray the obvious theme of the novel, that man, or more precisely, mankind, is inherently evil. In addition, the book is quite engaging and was difficult to put down. This is a great compliment coming from a busy high-schooler for whom leisure reading is, unfortunately, not at the top of the "to do" list.One can truly appreciate the novel's themes, however, after a comparison to Salinger's __Catcher_in_the_Rye__. One can draw conclusions about Golding's and Salinger's respective messages about evil and corruption, and can appreciate each book on different levels by analyzing them both individually and comparltively.
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Summary: A scary, twising book with an astonishing climax
Review: This book is by far one of the most greatest books I have ever read. It starts out fine and dandy, but then some of the boys (such as Jack an co.) start to lose it. In the end, two boys die, very horibbly. This is a gruesome book, as the "Lord of the Flies" is a pig's head on a stick. Simon had a very creepy "interview" with the pig's head. The smaller boys (or "littluns" as the big boys say it) keep talking about "the beast", a gruesome ententity that lurks wherever the boys are not looking. This turns out to be in fact a dead man that floated down with a prachute, hence the name "Beast from air". I recommend this book for people of horror.
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