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3.48 AVERAGE
3.48 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
4.5 ⭐️
i loved this, wow!
unlike anything i’ve ever read and the complexity and extended metaphors throughout this text are INSANE! i thoroughly enjoyed reading/listening to this book so so much. i can’t wait to talk about it at book club!
i loved this, wow!
unlike anything i’ve ever read and the complexity and extended metaphors throughout this text are INSANE! i thoroughly enjoyed reading/listening to this book so so much. i can’t wait to talk about it at book club!
(re-read from eons ago)
Lord of the Flies is the quintessential middle school required reading. Idk about y'all but at my school it was made insufferable bc, well, middle schoolers ("sucks to your ass-mar" became the go-to phrase of all my classmates). it is a little wild to assume that someone of that age group can truly come to terms with what this book forces you to think about. also, i remember dreading discussing this book as a child who grew up fat (no one dared to call me "piggy," at least not to my face, but i am sure some considered it!!)
i like rereading books, especially books that i previously found endearing from a much younger perspective. i was a little taken aback by how utterly depressing this book was. i expected more revelations about the terror of the situation with a sense of impending doom. but now, it just felt so hopeless.
this is one of those few books that i think the level of educational analysis you do in school adds to the story. this story is about something so innate to all of us and forces you to take a long hard look at that ugly truth!!
Lord of the Flies is the quintessential middle school required reading. Idk about y'all but at my school it was made insufferable bc, well, middle schoolers ("sucks to your ass-mar" became the go-to phrase of all my classmates). it is a little wild to assume that someone of that age group can truly come to terms with what this book forces you to think about. also, i remember dreading discussing this book as a child who grew up fat (no one dared to call me "piggy," at least not to my face, but i am sure some considered it!!)
i like rereading books, especially books that i previously found endearing from a much younger perspective. i was a little taken aback by how utterly depressing this book was. i expected more revelations about the terror of the situation with a sense of impending doom. but now, it just felt so hopeless.
this is one of those few books that i think the level of educational analysis you do in school adds to the story. this story is about something so innate to all of us and forces you to take a long hard look at that ugly truth!!
Tengo que decir que no es de mis lecturas clásicas favoritas, al principio me costó bastante coger ritmo, pero aún así no puedo evitar reconocerle méritos.
Esa sensación de que, aunque los protagonistas y su lenguaje nunca salgan de lo "infantil", se tratan temas bastante profundos y oscuros, y llega a resultar bastante perturbador.
Me parece increíble que con unos personajes tan pequeñitos se haya podido crear una historia que te deje con ese mal cuerpo, que revele la degradación del ser humano en un ambiente salvaje, que muestre lo peor de la condición humana.
Esa sensación de que, aunque los protagonistas y su lenguaje nunca salgan de lo "infantil", se tratan temas bastante profundos y oscuros, y llega a resultar bastante perturbador.
Me parece increíble que con unos personajes tan pequeñitos se haya podido crear una historia que te deje con ese mal cuerpo, que revele la degradación del ser humano en un ambiente salvaje, que muestre lo peor de la condición humana.
adventurous
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
challenging
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I knew very early in i would not like this book. I had to force myself to finish it just so I can say I've actually read it. I read the audio book and this probably didn't help any. I've said before I normally like when authors read their books as long as they have the sense enough to have practiced some voice acting beforehand. This guy did no such thing and was content with all the children sounding like a bored old man. Seriously, the only person more bored than me was the author reading his own fucking book. This book boils down to 3 main things, the kids arguing over and over about why they should have a signal fire to be rescued, half the kids bitching about the other half hunting too much instead of literally anything else that would help, and hunting each other for absolutely no fucking reason. The island is full of food and they never have issue finding fresh water. All of them have no issue killing pigs repeatedly for food, which I don't believe for a second, these shithead little brats wouldn't have been so lucky in real life in my opinion. Hunting wild boar isn't easy and even grown men could get fucked up trying it equipped with just sticks. They're well fed the whole fucking time but take to hunting each other for the sport of it. Kids or not in survival situations if youre all eating good I just don't see this happening. Starving to death weeks or months in sure, shit happens, but not like this. I mean an entire plane of kids where all but 2 completely lack empathy for any other person, get fucked. The author himself sounds like a misogynistic dbag who left girls out all together because he just doesn't think women could represent society in a metaphorical sense. They supposedly crash in some kind of wartime evacuation. What kind of evacuation leaves all females behind. I get it he wrote this shit in the 50s but this man has kids and a wife you'd think he could pull his head out of his own ass for half a second. In the audio book he says at the beginning he wrote it in 53 or 54, how the hell do you not know for sure when YOU wrote the fucking book. The man's a joke and so is his book that's why they have to force kids to read it in grade school otherwise it wouldn't have any hype at all. Fuck this book give me the 7 hours of my life back.
adventurous
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
this particular audio version had some distracting ambient sound effects. I was never fully invested in the story and found my mind wandering many times, including in the lead up to the first death, which then surprised me. I can perhaps see why this was a big deal 70 years ago, but am not sure it has stood the test of time. My school uses it as a genre study, but I can't see the kids enjoying it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Gore, Blood
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Lord of the Flies is a work of genius well suited for those lucky few like myself who did not read it in school. Never before in literature have I found a clearer depiction of the crossroads between light and darkness, and the canvas on which it is painted does not disappoint.