Lord of the Flies

This book was pretty good. I did not like how the book first started with the boys already on the island. For me personally it was quite confusing and hard to wrap my mind around. Going more into the book I thought the plot was good. I feel like the story was interesting and quite amusing. I thought the details throughout the story were quite good, adding suspense and thrill to the book. Helping create a scene in your head, of what the children and island truly looked like, what it was like living on an inhabited island. Personally however, I did not like the wording of the book. I don’t know if it was just me, but I felt as though the wording and grammar was a bit off, causing confusion while reading. It could've been the level of reading was just not quite fit for me. I was able to adjust and understand after the first couple of chapters, but it was still a bit difficult to understand. I also thought the violence and gruesomeness was quite nice. It made the book thrilling and added action, which to me, kept me reading the book. Overall, I rate this book a 4/5. I would recommend this book to people who like excitement, but can handle a bit of violence. I was very satisfied with this book.

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Reader reviewed by linda

Imagine 20 boys all alone on a deserted island without a single parent to tell them what to do. You would expect it to be fun and exciting, in the beginning it is, but as the rebellious hunters fight against the intelligent leader, many disasters start. 20 boys from an expensive private school are brought down to an island off the coast of South America because of a terrible plane crash. The boys are from different groups in the school, there are the choir boys, some very smart but weak boys, and the popular, athletic boys. The main character, Ralph, is selected to be the leader but other more popular and persuasive boys grab the attention of the group and turn them against Ralph.

Reader reviewed by verathraghna

The Lord of the Rings warrants a 4 only because the central message it teaches is one that the author didn't intend. Golding wrote the book as an exposition on how bad humans are. Despite its negative message, it has become a classic, and luckily so. His choice of children makes it difficult for people to dismiss the happenings with "they are evil." Rather we are forced to admit that this is simply a look at raw human nature. And it's at this point that we come to a juncture; either raw human nature is evil or good. If it is evil then we really have no choice but to accept what Christianity says -- that we should try to spend our lives repenting for what we are. If you believe, like I do, that we are good, then you are forced to consider the realities of human nature and deal with them. The chaos and violence are natural to humans until a social structure which they can believe in arises. In the case of these schoolboys the history of the world was being replayed; they lost their belief in the validity of being an English schoolboy and defaulted to choosing a King and reconstructing rituals and a religion around their fear of the beast. They were not evil; that's just the way we humans are. If you love humans, you will forgive them this and use the knowledge to your advantage by for example trying to stay out of harm's way when society is looking for scapegoats.