Lord of the Flies (Abridged Audio Edition)

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Summary: It sucked
Review: This book was terrible

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Summary: Extremly true account of Human Nature
Review: I had to read this book for school and I fell in love with it. Yes, it's disgusting, parts of it make you want to close the book, almost too afraid to see what's going to happen, but to stop would be to lose track of all that humanity is. My teacher was funny. She said that the first time she read it she was disgusted, but now she teaches that it is one of the greatest books in all literature. It all depends on how you read it.

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Summary: This was an action packed book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Lord of the Flies was an action book filled with adventure. I think that the author of this book had in mind what he was doing. The most action packed parts were when two of the main characters were killed. The rivalry that goes on in this story is somewhat serious when you have yong boys being cannibals. The things I didn't like was the length and some of the wording. The outcome really was a knowing situation. You knew that most likely they were going to be saved. The things I liked were when he had the characters express their feelings in a unusal and weird way. If you read this book you will be hot and cold. Hot being the action packed areas and cold being the not so action filled areas. I think that you should give this story a shot. I still warn you don't be disapointed by the length.Enjoy.

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Summary: Shows what people really are.
Review: Well lets see. This book was not exactly what I would call an adventure but it brought some interesting things to thought. Basically what you have at the beginning is I'd say around maybe 50 kids (no adults) even though only a few of them actually have a part and by the end you've got savages running around killing each other! This book really shows you how screwed up man kind really is- and these were only children. It shows you everything that is wrong with society today by bringing up all the defects in human nature.Many people think it's just our society that has messed the world up but in reality, no matter what we do human nature is going to spoil it in the end. When you read this book you'll become frightened when you finish and piece all of it together and realize exactly what it is showing you. But hey- read it for yourself and find out. It's an interesting story and if you don't like my opinion read the others....... All things aside, this book gets 4 stars.

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Summary: Great book for experienced readers!
Review: I liked this book because it was very suspenseful. The detail of the book was great, you could see what was happning as you read. My favorite part was when they were chanting the pig-killing song. I would recommend this book to an experienced reader.

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Summary: An excellent portrayal of human nature
Review: This book was written with one purpose in mind: to detirmine whether man is inherently good or evil. Golding began this work with this question in mind, and arrived at the conclusion that man is indeed inherently evil. In between, however, he illustrated how evil outlasts good, how innocence is so easily destroyed, and how the struggle for power can corrupt even the most innocent- children. This is a powerful work that speaks of the stupidity of humans, and how little the struggle for power really means (illustrated at the very end of the book). If you are a reader who enjoys symbolism and hidden meanings, this book is for you. Every part of this book symbolizes something, from the characters and setting to the Lord of the Flies. Well written and well worth reading.

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Summary: A good, and very disturbing book
Review: This was one of the few books I had to read for school, but that I really enjoyed. It's definitally not the kind of book you want to associate with and you don't wish to be any of the characters. I like the book because it is a good lesson about the nature of mankind -the gradual loss of "civilization" as the "highly-civilized English boys" degrade to become savages. The murders they commit and the chanting and "pig" scenes are very shocking, but definiatally realistic. One question that came up im my class discussion: Would a group of girls react the same way? Well, definitally a great book, that I can only recommend.

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Summary: Blood and insanity frolics gleefully among the pages!
Review: I have seen several reviews in here that say this book was boring; It wasn't boring, it was nasty! Several people also said it wasn't for people under thirteen. Well, I'm twelve, and I read mostly adult books, so it's not like I didn't understand it. It's just that I hated it! Yes, I admit, there is evil lurking inside everyone, I know. But I find it hard to admit that it could be quiet as much as Mister Golding portrays. There are also some nice little descriptions about a bunch of savage boys dying very painful deaths, and I wonder why anyone would title their book after a pig's head speared on a stick. ??????? In my opinion, if you haven't read this book, dont' touch it, unless you want to have your fingers tainted forever.

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Summary: That is the Reason
Review: The author wrote this book to show how stupid humans are. If you think about it, you can look at a school play ground. If there are no adults, you have children picking on one another. This book is about Human nature. And for those people who turn there heads and say that this book is horribly gruesome, well obviously. That is the point, so was the Civil War, what did it accomplish, freedom, and hatred, but that it accomplished something.

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Summary: It was a pretty good book.
Review: My favorite character was Piggy, a big kid who was really nice and a big heart and Ralph who was the leader but was having problems with some of the kids on the island. I didn't like Jack who was the leader of the chorus. He was cold, haunted and rude. He was the one who killed two of the other characters in the story. Then there was Simon. He was a hard worker but was too young to be leader, even though he would have made a better leader than any of the others. This story did not seem realistic to me because it's not likely that kids would actually survive on an island. I would recommend this story to kids who like action packed novels.