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    <body><![CDATA[I love Golding's view of the world.  This continues where &quot;Lord of the Flies&quot; left off; that human nature is inherently savage.  That is, the world isn't needed to corrupt a child, we all accomplish that just fine on our own.  Bleak, but intriguing.  This book was also clever and suspensef...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10630005">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Does anyone remember the moment when Sebastian from The Neverending Story first handles the mysterious book in the creepy attic of his school?  That's how I felt when I first picked up this book - intrigued, particularly by the allusion to Paradise Lost in the title, but also a little apprehensive, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34586793">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good and evil?<br/>Light and darkness?<br/>damnation and redemption?<br/><br/>All that's in there.<br/>This is one that I don't fully agree with on a philosophical level, but still found it intriguing.  There are some pretty weird scenes in here.  Especially when the guy who's had 1/2 his body ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44595952">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;A dazzlingly dark novel by the Nobel Laureate.<br/><br/>At the height of the London blitz, a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved yet hideously scarred, tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a wanderer, a seeker after some unknown redemption. Two more lost children await him: twins as exquisite as they are loveless. Toni dabbles in political violence, Sophy in sexual tyranny. As Golding weaves their destinies together, as he draws them toward a final conflagration, his book lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[So this is the last of the whole  inherent-blackness-of-the-human-soul reading list I've inadvertently embarked upon lately.  I don't know what I was expecting, picking up a book that takes its title from Milton's famously oxymoronic description of hellfire.  <br/><br/>Maybe I need to read, you know...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29350015">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in College, but still find myself thinking about it occasionally.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably the most challenging book I have ever read.  Yikes.  But a great one.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating and rather disturbing book; need to read it again in order to understand it better. Does not hold up overall to the spectacular promise of the opening passages. Portrayal of inner lives of female characters was extremely negative and ultimately repellent. Nabokov does a better job of p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32575584">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I got halfway through and just didn't care what happens next.  Wasn't enjoying it, so I bailed.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Could not finish it....maybe later.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[They gave Golding the Nobel Prize in 83? Must have been a dearth of contenders. This 60s novel of ideas is actually tedious, with a narrative so laden with &quot;meaning&quot; that the story is lost. Ugh. Penance. Darkness visible indeed.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[sometimes this book is a little stale, a little obvious and repetitive, but overall it was a fantastic story. What I just said was pretty pointless, but I thought that I would say it anyway. Fuck me.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A great recommendation. Thanks, Em!]]></body>
    
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