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Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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alli_thebookgiraffe's review against another edition

3.0

I decided to re-read this book because I read it in high school and I remembered I didn’t like it but could not remember why that was. I still don’t know. I think this is an alright book but it is incredibly violent and I didn’t remember that. One of the towns in Stephen King’s books is called Castle Rock and I never noticed before now that it was named from this book. This may not be relevant to this review but I found it interesting.
Overall, I always enjoy books set during WW2.

samhhester's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

megsasser's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad fast-paced

Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

shainprice's review against another edition

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dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

fbk's review against another edition

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dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

mhumby123's review against another edition

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4.0

I will say that this was a very dark novel with a takeaway that evil lies in all of us.

moz_art's review against another edition

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adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

yeah i understood it but i think overall the writing was stodgy and repetitive. there was a disconnect between the paragraphs of positioning and describing the landscape and where the characters are and what they’re doing which was chunky and felt like reading a textbook and the dialogue which was quick and hard to understand (doesn’t indicate who is speaking most times, lots of cut offs and implications) and yeah I understand that their trauma/shock is not letting them see or acknowledge whats right in front of them but as a reader I’d like a bit more info like even 0.2% more info. if I didn’t already know the plot mostly going in to this I would’ve been completely blind to how they even got on the island. but yeah mostly just repetitive bickering and in the end, as always, racism. i really do love the story so i wish it was better.