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Summary: Read the original, it's better.
Review: As Truman Capote once pointed out, Golding simply lifted the whole idea for this book out of "A High Wind in Jamaica" (aka "The Innocent Voyage") by Richard Hughes. Read the original -- it is much better.
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Summary: Lord of the Flies is a great book for all ages.
Review: Lord of the Flies By: William Golding Putnam Publishing Group 1959 $5.56 Lord of the Flies is as great book to read for someone who enjoys stories with action, competition,and a great overall plot. As I read this book one thing I noticed is the realism. The writer, William Golding, does a fantastic job of describing the hardships and predicaments of the young group of adolescents and their everyday adventures after their crash-landing on a deserted island. Another thing that stood out was the different personalities and attitudes of all the boys and how they viewed and reacted to their problems. The story begins with the group of boys who had just crash-landed on the island meeting up and stating all of the possibilities of survival. Once they realize that they will probably be on the island for a long time they decide to choose a leader by vote, Ralph. Ralph is the maturest of all of the boys. He sets a strict set of rules and the boys split up into groups; the hunters, and the ones who keep a fire going to signal for help. The hunters are led by Jack, Ralph's rival. Soon Ralph's rules start being challenged and ignored and the whole situation goes haywire. The story is full of drama and excitement as they come across problem after problem and conflict begins between the boys. One good thing I liked about this book is the fact that it is very easy to follow. I had no problems whatsoever following the story. I thing Golding wrote a great book for all ages and I highly recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Disturbing
Review: Talk about eerie. This book's like a slap in the back of the head, because you know you'd do the same thing. You have to search to find all the hidden themes, but once you do, it's disturbing.
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Summary: Very Boring!
Review: The book has a good theme about the break down of socializedbehavior but it gets really boring. The entire plot can be explannedin a pharagraph.
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Summary: re: no child would cause such destruction
Review: This is for the reader who thinks that no child would cause such destruction. You can't be serious. Why then, may I ask you, do we continue to read about children shooting up their schools? Take off your blinders and see that bad things do happen in this world, and sometimes these things are committed by children. Wake up.
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Summary: I found the review very interesting and very moving.
Review: Reading the novel, "Lord of the Flies," was a great experience for me. This novel gave me a chance to experience the troubles of adulthood and the many difficulties one goes through as they grow older and more responsible. This novel truly points out the risks that people take to survive in a place they are unfamiliar to, and I believe that this is a great example of the trials and tribulations that we go through and the decisions we make in life; whether they are the wrong ones or the right ones. I deffinitely recommend this book to other readers, and hope that each of you can learn something from this novel...the way I did.
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Summary: The struggles of young boys stranded on a deserted island.
Review: The book entitled Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, is an excellent story of a group of boys from Europe whose plane is shot down during a flight over the ocean during World War II. The story entails the deep physical, mental, and social struggles of a group of young boys on a deserted island. The struggle of survival among the boys of the island revolves on partial cooperation. They have to build shelter and find food. Also they're in constant disagreement that eventually splits them into two groups, one to keep the signal fire going, the other sees the need to hunt. All had a common fear, fear of the beast. The beast represents the unknown; the unknown is especially frightening to those who are younger and are losing touch with civilization. All the children on the island have a common goal, at least in the back of their minds, which is to get off the island and be rescued. In the end all the boys, Ralph (the most charismatic character in the story), Simon(the intellignet, prophet-like figure), Jack (the power-hungry, savage-like, and irresponsible child), Piggy (the highly intelligent, pudgy, little boy ), Roger (the small and dirty boy who represents pure evil), Sam and Eric (young twins who always do everything together) each get off the island in one way or another. The pace of this story is easy reading but it does get slow at some points. The style used in writing this book is very detailed about descriptions, understandable but kind of slow. This was a good book recommended for readers of all ages because it is an adventorous story that teaches us about the need for rules and cooperation in an uncivilized environment.
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Summary: This is not how the world is supposed to be.
Review: William Golding does not leave readers with any thinking space to ponder of the values he brought up in the book. Unlike Harper Lee, whose novel requires a certain level of intelligence to interpret and understand, this novel spits out the themes directly, leaving no space for imagination. Even the symbols are so simple and uninteresting. This book has such a cynical and pessimistic view of the world, that i totally disagree with. I believe that no child would cause such destruction as this, and no child would be like he described, a incarnate of Satan. It is a book with his own thinking. It may be good if one understands and agrees with his way of thinking. I don't.
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Summary: Entails the struggles of a group of boys stuck on an island
Review: The book Lord Of the Flies by William Golding details the struggles of seven adolescent boys who are stranded on an uncharted island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. The boys get stranded after their airplane crashed as a result of war-time efforts to bring down European planes during World War II . The struggle for the boy's survival on the island is bound by their friendship and their willingness to work together so that they may make their stay on the island as pleasant as possible. They work together to build shelter and find food. Unfortunately not all of the boys feel that they should cooperate. As soon as the rules were set, a group of rebels took it upon themselves to be outcasts of the group and start up their own clan, which was named the hunters. Although some points of the story are set moderately slow, the storyline is still very good. Most of the adolescents are longing to get off of the island, although some of them like it there. The names of the seven adolescent boys are Ralph, Jack, Piggy, Simon, Sam, Eric, and Roger. Ralph is a twelve year old with blonde hair. Ralph is probably the most charismatic in the group. Another character is Jack who is about Ralph's age, but he has a much skinnier build. Jack is a power-hungry, savage-like, irresponsible child. The next character in the novel is Piggy. He's short and has a high intelligence compared to the other boys. Simon is an intelligent and sensible, and he hopes that he will be rescued off of the island sooner than the other boys. After Simon, there's Roger, a small boy with dirty, shaggy hair. Roger represnts pure evil, even more so even than Jack. Finally, Sam and Eric are two young twins who always travel and do everything together. Without each other, they are incapable of doing very much at all. Although times were hard, the boys pulled through and were rescued off of the island. They were picked up by a Navy cruiser, and brought out to sea with the ship. I feel that the end of the novel shows war on different scales. On the island the boys were battling with the hunters and the beast. On the cruise ship, the boys will see firsthand fighting between soldiers on the Navy cruiser against battling countries during World War ll. I felt that this novel had an excellent story-line with plenty of fun, excitement, and would be an enjoyable reading experience for people of all ages.
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Summary: Not for the immature
Review: I think Lord of the Flies has to be one of the best books I have ever read in my life (and i've read quite a few!) What's interesting to note about most of these reviews is that most of the one or two star ratings and negative comments are probably given by high school students who were made to read it. Well, I read this book in high school and also disliked it immensely. However, now that I've matured a bit (or so i like to think!) and re-read it, I simply cannot understand how anyone cannot be moved by this book! It's insights are extremely profound. But I could see why someone who is in high school and is being made to read this book would not enjoy it. All I have to say is give it another chance when you're older guys! It's worth it. :-)
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