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libbysbookshelf's Reviews (744)
Just what you want to read when you are a teenager, or just interested in sex!
This book isn't trying to tell us the right thing to do, it's telling us an honest story of two teenagers who got caught up in the drug scene and how it affected then. Don't read this if you want advice or a moral story. I certainly didn't. I read it for entertainment and to open my eyes to a culture I didn't know much about. I believe the characters and the story and I don't feel patronised ever. I would recommend this to anyone over the age of 13.
Don't normally read dystopia and don't normally read what everyone else is reading, but man am I glad I did.
Great strong characters. The story is gripping and intense (who cares if it's unoriginal? All the best writers steal anyway!)
I love everything about this story.
Great strong characters. The story is gripping and intense (who cares if it's unoriginal? All the best writers steal anyway!)
I love everything about this story.
Great follow up to a great first book. More of the same and some new points. Love the rebellion growing.
What a shame. I still love the story and I hate giving bad reviews, but what a lag after two great novels. I wanted so much more from the ending. It's a shame she can't retract it and write another one!
I would never ordinarily read anything like this, but it was so compelling. I so often have to tell people who are thinking of giving up on this book to just skip the first chapter. It was so slow and so boring and nearly killed the book for me. Everything we learn in that first chapter we could happily learn as we go along and we do. The rating has not suffered, though, because it is still a tremendous book.
They get better and better. Awesome protagonists and awesome story.
About a woman struggling to be at peace with herself.
I would give it more stars if I could. I just loved reading it. Felt like I was stealing a little bit of literary knowledge that no one else had. As far from the truth as possible, but there was something personal about the story.
I would give it more stars if I could. I just loved reading it. Felt like I was stealing a little bit of literary knowledge that no one else had. As far from the truth as possible, but there was something personal about the story.
I know it's a classic and disliking a classic makes you seem thick and uninteresting (which is why I gave it 3 stars instead of the 2 I feel it actually deserves).
I know it's well written and takes on a topic and story that others may shy away from. I'm just not sure that's how shit would have gone down, if you know what I mean. I know it's kind of Animal Farm ish in that it's taken an unexpected group and applied political ideas. While I do appreciate what they are getting at, I didn't like Animal Farm and I don't really like this. I would like to see what would happen to a real group of boys left on an island, not these fake boys from Golding's head. If you call it fantasy then I suppose he has every right to write it as he pleases, but that's a whole other argument.
Someone told me about the cannibalism in the story and that's really why I read it. And don't get me wrong, I am interested in human behaviour above most things and politics interests me and frustrates me as much as the next person, but this novel didn't illustrate that for me.
I know it's well written and takes on a topic and story that others may shy away from. I'm just not sure that's how shit would have gone down, if you know what I mean. I know it's kind of Animal Farm ish in that it's taken an unexpected group and applied political ideas. While I do appreciate what they are getting at, I didn't like Animal Farm and I don't really like this. I would like to see what would happen to a real group of boys left on an island, not these fake boys from Golding's head. If you call it fantasy then I suppose he has every right to write it as he pleases, but that's a whole other argument.
Someone told me about the cannibalism in the story and that's really why I read it. And don't get me wrong, I am interested in human behaviour above most things and politics interests me and frustrates me as much as the next person, but this novel didn't illustrate that for me.
