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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book a long time ago, long enough to where I barely remembered anything past the basic premise. So I picked it up again, only to wish I hadn't. There's a reason why they teach this book in middle school--in order to enjoy this book, one's intellectual cognizance must be that of a child, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6794051">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was tempted to give this five stars, since in so many ways it strikes me as the kind of masterpiece, like Heart of Darkness, that I imagine will retain its horror and readability for centuries. The prose veers (or as Golding would say it, &quot;tends&quot;) from plain to painterly. The story is we...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4934564">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I hated this book. First off, as I remember, it talks about humans failure to govern ourselves, or more broadly the failures of human nature.  There are a few reasons why I think simply dropping a group of kids on a desert island does not in fact prove anything.<br/><br/>1) These kids were raised ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16319894">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is horrifying. I'm scared like hell. Totally.<br/>I was expecting an adventure book telling about some children who got stranded in an island, but ended up with goosebumps.<br/><br/>A bit of synopsis: A number of English school boys suffered from a plane accident causing them to get str...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14229760">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I HATED this book.  This is one of the books that gets lumped into a group with other equally bad books that everyone is supposed to read and love because it has some overarching value.  This book was trash.  <br/><br/><br/>Horrible book.  Horrible writing.  Not a classic by any stretch of the im...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5146703">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was Piggy (well, in personality at least, though not in portliness).  I hated everyone who picked on him.  I still do.  Should people be forgiven for what they do on a deserted island?  That depends on whether you think their true nature has revealed itself, or their humanity has been corrupted by...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3015986">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Simply, it is such an excellent and influential novel of adventure with a story that is incredibly interesting and entertaining, which is also dramatic and emotional. It takes place in a very unusual setting and explains and shows what we can become if we do not have respect, rules and order which c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21878434">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've never read this book. Normally I wouldn't rate a book I haven't read just because I'd seen the movie; however, this story had such a negative impact on me I had to make an exception.<br/><br/>I saw this as a movie when I was 12 with all the 7th graders at my school. I didn't like middle schoo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10046678">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just read this book actually.  Didn't read it in school growing up.  I must have skipped over it or something.  I was drawn in very fast by the exciting premise.  Kids on an island!  No adults!  Kind of like that movie Camp Nowhere except more morbid.  I was carried through the book quickly until so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18598425">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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