Lord of the Flies (Abridged Audio Edition)

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Summary: The idea of "mob rule" has never been demonstrated so well!
Review: This book has it all: sympathetic characters, a great plot, frightening and powerful symbolism, and a good lesson on mob rule. Perhaps this book may even be powerful enough to stop our world's next violence-caused calamity.

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Summary: I was dazzled with this authors technique
Review: This book was extremely pernicious. I was afraid to sleep at night. I had to cry myself to sleep on many occasions. The study guide bled through my dentrites. The image of the pig remains in my memory bank to this day. I recommend this book to everyone.

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Summary: grow up
Review: I'm very surprised to see such negative comments about this book. Its one of the best.. if not the best books i have ever read. The symbolism in this book is so powerful. Maybe if you just opened your eyes and payed attention you could see that. This book was brilliant.

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Summary: Good Ideas...but poor construction
Review: Lord of the Flies is a book with good ideas, lots of symbolism...the struggle between order and recklessness. The problem lies with the deeper meanings revealed in the book. There are just to many of them..therefore it is really easy to get things confused. The way the author describes the characters is lacking information. For example, why is the boy Jack who only wants to hunt...so jealous of Ralph who only wants to get home, there must be more him that would justify his actions. The description of the "BEAST" is very hard to understand...was there one or not? Some parts of the plot, (it was so hard to see where everything was going) were long and irrelevant to the story, such as the long, dragged out descriptions of the island itself. The ending is the worst part about it...it ended so abruptly one minute there is a man hunt and suddenly there are the rescuers. If you want to think alot about a book ...then this is the one for you. As for those who must read it for school...I suggest getting it from the library than actually buying a copy at the bookstore. I am sorry I purchased the thing myself...I guess that's what I get for listening to a friend telling me to read it.

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Summary: Hanzo
Review: This book is very interesting, but also horrific. It reflects the society today of many things spinning out of control, this is a really good book, which is talking about how humans would behave when there is no government or law.

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Summary: Wow, that was pretty bad!
Review: I think Golding really screwed up on this one...I found the plot really boaring and unrealistic. There were too many characters and most were undeveloped. And just when I thought the novel was the worst thing I ever encountered, I saw the old black and white Lord of Flies Movie. I really honestly think that a three-year old directed this...P-U.

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Summary: I liked it!
Review: I have read William Golding's book Lord of the Flies. The book is about a group of boys who try to survive on a isolated island after a plane-crash. It is interesting so see the relationships between the boys, how they immediately take up different positions. At their fist meeting one boy, Jack, is chosen as the leader. Rules are made and accepted by every one. In the beginning everything was organized. Young and old boys are working together and everything is fine. But then their friendship begins to fail. One boy who they call Piggy becomes the outsider. Another boy who's name is Jack, who from the beginning also wanted to be the leader, starts to take over more and more. One day the group splits up and Jack forms his own group with completely different rules. Nothing is working on the island anymore and it runs out of control. One night something terrible happens, and it's then when Ralph understands that it's only the beginning. The rules which they all decided from the beginning don't exist any longer. Then Ralph becomes alone, against everyone else...
I thought the book was kind of good, but not as good as I had expected it to be, because it's so popular. It is written with describing sentences that makes it easy to imagine the environment and how they think. The language is easy to understand, since the author writes as the children think. But yet the text is deep and the book made me think. The subject that Golding has chosen is unusual, but good. It doesn't only tell us about the boys on the island, but wants to show that power isn't only a positive thing and can lead to something else, much worse.

From Karin, 15 years

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Summary: A Must Read Book
Review: Golding's perception of the kids' innate evil to most people was obsurd, but no one knows and that's what he thought. He uses descriptive writing, and it starts normal until the boys degenerate into savages and become evil. Golding also uses lots of irony.

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Summary: meaningful point
Review: I am only ten so it took a while to read this book. Every night I went to bed wondering what would happen next. In real life I don't think boys would do such evil things. It also has too many stupid British words, you would be better off reading something by an American author. At least they would be able to have a little more common sense and write about something a tad more believable.

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Summary: Awsome Doesn't begin to describe it
Review: When I first started to read Lord of the Flies, I thought it would be typical boys on Island with no adults and have fun all the way to rescue or something like it. I had heard references to it here and there, but never quite knew what they meant until I read it. I must say, this book is a deep down excellent read. You can see it in two perspectives. One, you can read it without any symbolism, and see a cool story, or look at it and take a exhaustive symbolism look and find a much cooler story. Golding is a perfect author in this story and the characters are far ore then what they are. This book features things that you wouldn't expect 6-12 or so year olds of doing. Such as canabalism, and even murder, as well as attempt of murder. It features not only a sick psychological perspective, but also some really light sci-fi.