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dnietoperafan's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Minor: Bullying, Abandonment, Child death, Mental illness, Murder, Grief, Death, and Blood
rowy148's review
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Murder, Animal death, Fatphobia, Toxic friendship, and Child death
Moderate: Mental illness
Minor: War and Abandonment
mattyvreads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Then, recently, I was looking through a list of classic books and I thought “why not?”
It is so understandable to me that this is a classic. It’s horrifyingly compelling and perfectly paced. The characters are memorable, and the philosophical discussion of human nature is just as mystifying today.
That debate is: in a perfect vacuum, or let’s say… an early 1950s deserted island suddenly infested with immature and uncooperative schoolboys — are people essentially good, or essentially bad, or essentially both? I bet Hobbes and Rousseau are getting all jazzed up in Heaven, just reading this damned review.
The book itself is incredibly well-written. The story builds to it’s climax in such a profound and unsettling way, as you see their humanity chip away and their animalistic urges take over. Golding prays on the reader’s imagination and paranoia. We see the boys suffer the same fate — they become pray to their own delusions and fear, and for some, it is the death of them. It’s a story of children, in over their heads, thinking (or forcing themselves to think in order to survive) that they have it all figured out. Suddenly living to survive turns into a new way of life, and eventually, living to kill.
Damn, I gotta quit while I’m ahead. That was good.
Graphic: Death, Violence, and Child death
Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Gore, and Mental illness
bluelizzz's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Bullying, Animal death, Blood, Child death, and Animal cruelty
Moderate: Violence, Fatphobia, Death, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Stalking, Mental illness, War, Torture, and Vomit
the_embodiment_of_chaos's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Murder, Bullying, Fatphobia, Animal death, and Violence
Moderate: Mental illness
agatha_hopkins's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Child death, Death, Blood, Torture, Animal death, Murder, and Mental illness
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Toxic friendship, Body horror, and Blood
Minor: Vomit, War, Confinement, and Body shaming
postit's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Bullying, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Fatphobia, Child death, and Confinement
thehawksflight's review
I choose to believe in the essential good of humans, even very young ones, with a tendency toward collaboration and altruism during calamity. William Golding clearly thought otherwise.
The trope(s) have been copied, parodied, interpreted so much over the years that I found the book itself hard to enjoy in its own right.
Minor: Classism, Death, Mental illness, Body shaming, Xenophobia, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Bullying, Dysphoria, Ableism, and Gaslighting
lotus440's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Murder, Violence, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Animal death, and Bullying
sandy_21's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence
Moderate: Gore, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Mental illness, and Fatphobia