The Lord of the Flies

We've had to read this in English Lit and normally I hate the stuff we're forced to study but I actually really liked this. It's such a good book and works on oads of different levels.

What does everyone else think?

 

I adore it...one of my fav books...It's like human nature in a nutshell...

I especially like Simon

 

I've read and analysed that book 4 times. each time there was SO MUCH SYMBOLISM and 'look at the differences between piggy and simon", notice this, look at that, bla bla bla.

school has murdered a good book for me.

 

I loved this book. I definitely liked Simon a lot and his part definitely made me so sad.

 

Simon's my favourite too

It's a shame it's been ruined for you we_all_shine_on It's a good book. It's like that with me & William BLake...I've studied his work so often I'm sick of it even though it's quite good. Maybe give it a bit of time and try reading it again?

 

We had to read it in English Literature too, then we had to do a coursework piece on it, and we had to do it in the exam! Despite all that torment, it's still one of my favourite books. A true masterpiece of a fable depicting human nature at it's most base. And the way it ends, with the savage boys being rescued by a military warship, is so telling and true. We can accuse the boys of savagery, but it is the hearts of all of us in the adult world out there, a world of war and destruction....

 

I haven't read it yet but it sounds excellent. Who is it by?

I hate how school butchers books and makes us pick them apart to the point of "I HATE THIS FUCKING BOOK!" when you really would love it if you weren't forced to read it and have tests on it. Earlier this year we read To Kill a Mockingbird and I absolutely HATED it because we couldn't read ahead (come on--one chapter a night? I could finish the damn book in a night) and we had to do like 10 questions on EVERY SINGLE CHAPTER. I might try reading it again in a few years because I know I'll like it.

 

It's by the British author William Golding, but the book should be widely available in America. Have a search for it on Amazon.com....

 

Yeah, that's what happened to me too with this book.

 

An excellent book, I found it frightenenly accurate and it reminded me of 'Animal Farm' (Can anyone see why?? )

 

I've read it three times and never get sick of it, i had to read it for english, civics and english class again.

The fact that i had to read it three times must mean its a great book.

 

I found it incredibly terrifying psyologically, it really disturbed me and really made me think. The first time I read it I only skimmed through it in a night, and it didn't all sink in until a few days later (the nightmares with pigs heads on sticks began then). After reading it more closely I could see the beauty of the work behind the gruesomeness and realised the messages and the symbolism it conveyed... It didn't get murdered for me at school thankfully, becasue out teacher was off on maternity leave so we had to pretty much do it ourselves

 

Well, the book certainly arouses many different questions about the nature of human society (is it an artificial structure? or is it the manifestation of human nature? how much is a person affected by their environment? etc.). And, of course, there are heaps of symbols.

I can't say I loved it, but I liked it, and it had some material that was extremely fun to discuss.

 

I read this for English Lit last year and really enjoyed it. My school picked pretty good novels to read actually- surprising! Hehe.


Summer. xx.

 

Instead of making us read the book, we had to watch the movie, which is of course inferior. But I read it, and today I treasure it as a nice teenage memory.

 

SO..IM reading this book right now for my english class...Im torn btween hating it to death and getting caught in its intricate symbolism..any of you got any feelings towards it one way or the other? I read To Killa Mockingbord last year and I enjoyed it lots.

 

Sorry, I loved Lord of the Flies...one of my favorite books...

 

Lord of the Flies is one of the BEST books, esp. if you've raised boys. HaHA (I think I have to laugh or I would cry, you know?)

 

i havent read lord of the flies yet but its mentioned several times in Hearts in Atlantis (which is probably my favorite book).

 

I had to study it last year.

I thought it was pretty good It got a bit annoying at times though.

Symbolism is always useful in exams