Reviews tagging 'Death'

Lord of the flies by William Golding

231 reviews

maizelith's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Amazing book. Never read this book in school, but I heard good things so I thought I'd pick it up. I didn't expect it to be YellowJackets in book form. Holy crap.

Piggy oh piggy.

Really good book that is so easy and so fun to psychoanalyze. It's metaphorical in so many ways, and I love how the writing style tends to be very imagery-driven. This leads to a lot of things not being directly told, but rather suggested and assumed. Felt like a mystery to read.

That ending, and the deaths of the boys, so sad and I truly feel bad for all of them. Even Jack who was driven to insanity by his insecurities.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder

krosebooks's review against another edition

3.0

mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I didn’t find this book entertaining expect for the beginning and end of the book. Book concept is intriguing but it’s hard to keep attention. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

tilde_c_s's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Fatphobia, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Classism

Minor: Racial slurs, War

thebooksmegreads's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Murder, Abandonment

mwell2818's review against another edition

4.0

dark reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Pretty good. Reminded me somewhat of Heart of Darkness. I’m glad I did some reading about the book so I understood the civilization vs savagery theme 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

celery's review against another edition

2.0

dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, War, Injury/Injury detail

fyretamer's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Blood, Murder

Minor: Racism, War

nstinch54's review against another edition

4.5

dark reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Violence, Murder

Moderate: War

skyloarde's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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• Seen this Story written  and referenced many time and while it’s pretty great, I feel like it’s been done better. Nevertheless well written characters and setting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Fatphobia

Moderate: Physical abuse, Violence, Murder

Minor: Racial slurs

fantasticalkat's review against another edition

3.0

dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This book feels odd to review instead of reflect upon, so I am going to try to do both. A book written about boys getting stranded on an island and devolving nearly immediately into savagery is well known, and the reason that this appears in so many english classes. Golding actually sort of ruined it for me by 1) being the audio narrator, and 2) giving a foreword to the book which included some cringe justifications for why it was all boys. The writing is good but not life-changing, and while the story itself got lost in the middle, I think overall was compelling.

But I didn't come away with "without rules all of society will crumble" or "boys are savages at heart" from this story. The theme I most picked up on was, in the face of a charismatic and psychopathic leader, people can be compelled to do terrible things even against a backdrop of civility and humanity. Jack was immediately violent, and so finding him bullying and

ultimately killing

was not a surprise, but the fact that so many of the boys felt cowed into following him was a bit dire.

I fully understand why this book is such a classic, and that the themes it explores are dark and interesting, but if this is ever revamped, taking the idea and the thought experiment and giving us a more realistic buildup to the conclusion of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Murder