Lord of the Flies (Abridged Audio Edition)

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Summary: A great book that will intrigue you.
Review: Lord of the Flies, depicts a spine tingling tale of man's willingness to return to his primitive ways. In this book, a plane crash results in several young British boys being stranded on a deserted island. Throughout this tale , a boy named Ralph tries to lead the band of boys. He does so by trying to maintain a civilized society. However, many of the boys begin to stray and began to return to man's savage ways. This band of savages has a leader named Jack. Jack's ways completely go against all of Ralph's ideas and morals. As a result, a conflict occurs between Ralph's goodness and Jack's evil. In the end, we see that even the most civilized man does return to his savage ways when he is backed into a corner. Golding uses a lot of symbolism throughout this intriguing tale. Thus, he is able to keep the reader intrigued by not only the suspenseful plot but the underling meanings as well. Lord of the Flies is by far one of the best books I have ever reader. I highly recommend this book to any reader who is looking for a great suspenseful adventure story.

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Summary: The Lord of the Flies is a good book for anyone to read.
Review: The Lord of the Flies is a good book for anyone in High School to read. I enjoyed it and I think that others my age would also enjoy the book. Even though this book is not something that I would have chosen for myself to read I am glad that I got the opportunity to do so. The Lord of the Flies is a very good example of how people can go from being civilized to being savages in just a matter of time. It gives us an idea of what life would be like if we didn't have rules and regulations. It also shows that even though you sometimes wish that you could just get away from all of the adults and do whatever you want things don't always turn out the way that you expect them to. I think that The Lord of the Flies was a very good book and I would recommend it too anyone looking for an adventurous book filled with many unexpected twists.

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Summary: This book was the most exciting book I have ever read.
Review: Over all I feel Lord of the Flies is one of the most terrifying and intriguing books i have ever read. After devastating plane crash, Ralph tries to bring order and work habits into effect. All he can get from the other boys is fun and games. Although they seemed fun, they soon destroyed the group and caused havoc. Golding set a perfect scene for this type of book, a deserted island with only the jungle as sources of food and shelter. This would be a hard task to manage if your an adult, but he had the oldest boy being around twelve. The boys are forced into separation from the beginning. Even though they stay together in shelters and work, they are separated by their beliefs and are bound to act out on it. Ralph, with Piggy's help, try to keep the group of boys together. No matter what they say, Jack always seems to have something better to say or do. In the end, Golding shows that if people are placed into a society with no rules, nothing good could come of this.

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Summary: This book is an insightful journey into the heart of mankind
Review: This book is more than just a story of a group of young Brittish school boys who are trapped on a tropical island together. This book discribes, in part, a journey that every human takes. This journey is a journey of the discovery of ones own morals, character, and compassion. Golding shows us that without rules and authority, man will abandon the comfort of society and regress into barbarianism. Ralph seems to be the symbol of the child in all of us. Though ignorant and naive, Ralph reminds us all what it is like to unconditionaly trusting and co-dependent on others. At a time when laws seem hypocritical and society seems counterproductive, "Lord of the Flies" reminds us why we even bother with civilization. My favorite character by far is Simon. Simon was weighted down with the knowledge of what was to come and he was unable to convince his friends that he was telling the truth. To me, Piggy represents the person that society and civilization was made to protect. I think these types of stuggles go on continuously in human society. These struggles are only reflections of our inner struggles between our super-egos and our ids. The final question that I got from this book was this, is it better to hide behind the rules of society as Ralph, Simon, and Piggy did, or is it better to hide behind a mask of anyonimity as Jack and Roger did? Like a great paradox, in the end no one really knows the answer for sure. I really enjoyed this book and I recommend it to everyone.

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Summary: It was a fantastic book that I couldn't wait to finish.
Review: This book was very interesting to read. I liked that the author secluded the boys on an island to keep whats going on in the rest of the world out of the book so the focus is on the boys struggle for leadership, the struggle between good and evil, and humanity and savagry. I also liked how the author used certain objects to represent things like democracy or civilized society. I read this book with a group that was set at a certain pace and I enjoyed the book so much I finished before the rest of them. It may not be a great adventure story, but it will keep you guessing.

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Summary: every high school student should read this book
Review: William Golding's Lord of the flies is one of the most intriguing books I have ever read. The tale of Ralph and his boys is so real that it is horrifying. Golding has a way of seeing how things would really happen without society and government. He places a group of all boys on a deserted island to fend for themselves. being on an island, the boys have no way of escaping. At first the boys develop rules and a sort of loose society, but then when jack get his hunters to join him so they can hunt and have fun, everything falls apart. Jack and his hunters turn savage and eventually burn the whole island. Golding portrays mans natural state as being savage rather than human as we know it. He suggests that if left alone, man will regress into the animals that we once were. Jack and his hunters actually stalk the pigs on all fours like animals. They paint there faces and when they kill pig, they dance and chant. No high school student can understand the reality of our true nature until they read lord of the flies.

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Summary: Amazing book
Review: I thought this book was one of the best ever written. I put it up there with Animal Farm. It was such a cool book. I would reccommend it to anyone who likes survival stories with actual conflicts. A very good book!

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Summary: A masterpiece
Review: I read this book 12 years ago in high school, and it remains one of the most affecting novels I have ever read. I'd put it in my top 10.

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Summary: Excellent Premise
Review: A reviewer wrote that the fact that most of the boys turned into savages was unrealistic. On the contrary, I thiunk it was the most ingenious and realistic part of the novel. The premise that makes them turn a bunch of stuck-up, snotty British prep school kids turn into savages is one that's also been preached by Freud, Darwin, and Anthony Burgess (the author of A Clockwork Orange, another great novel). It goes as follows: human beings are simply highly evolved animals. Although we may be much smarter than dogs, monkeys, or lions, we have the same animal instincts and tendencies that they have. Also, contrary to what religion may tell you, we're both with no sense of right or wrong. Some of us, such as Ralph and Piggy, as we grow older and develop free will, develop a sense of right and wrong. However, in the case of many others, such as Jack and Roger, who seemed harmless at the begining of the novel, no moral sense of right and wrong is ever developed, even though the given is usually unaware of this. The only reason that the such people are "kept in line" is because society trains them that way. Thus, when the barriers of society are gone, their amoral animal nature returns, as shown in Lord of the Flies. This book proved that Golding was both an excellent weriter and a brilliant thinker.

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Summary: i can relate very well
Review: I bought this book a year ago and I only read it now because I was so busy at school, but now is our vacation and this is the first thing I've done. I'm sixteen and I have to read the book twice. The first time I read it, I already liked it. The good point of the book is that I can very well relate to the characters. I felt sympathy for all of them even for Jack. It is realistic in the sense that that is how boys act. But when the other boys hunt or turn into savages are not quite realistic, I think that it is where the author and the reader's creativity and understanding should come out. I think that he put this attitude to the boys to add more color and he really meant to exaggerate it so we can see it clearly. My favorite thing is that the author is very creative in writing and he expresses and describes everything with colors. I suggest that if you read this book, you should try to visualize, imagine and picture every detail of what the author writes so you would appreciate the book more. Try to put yourself in the scene. Because the book is not really more on the plot but on how everything felt. How it is like to be in that place, how does it felt when you were told you were like that. I must also say that it is very touching how the young boys seem so young but still they think and understand. They feel and see things and resolve it. Some says that the end is quite disappointing and I was also a bit disappointed but I think that's where our imagination will take place and it's up to us to put the resolution. Though I have to read the book again because I feel that I am missing something out.