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Lord of the Flies
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Smiley
May 17, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction
I found reading this novel arguably readable, much better than my first struggling attempt some 40 years ago, probably due to more familiarity I've gained from reading some of his other works. Indeed there might have long been innumerable Golding scholars who read, studied and wrote on his books as well as his fame as an awardee of the prestigious Nobel Prize in literature in 1983; therefore, as a common reader I would say something to share with my Goodreads friends hoping the points I propose ...more
Smiley
Jul 31, 2009 rated it liked it
I read this unthinkable novel some 30 years ago, it's not readable for me then and I didn't know why. Maybe it's due to its psychological complexity as well as those complex dialogs among those pre-teenage and teenage boys left stranded on an unknown island in an unknown ocean. I think the author would like to warn us to be aware of our wild instinct in which, as educated and civilized people, might reign supreme whenever we're in any religious or political crisis causing our lives in danger or ...more
jenn
Jul 22, 2008 rated it did not like it
Killed by my high school AP english teacher. killed killed killed.
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Jan 03, 2009 rated it it was ok
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Feb 15, 2009 rated it really liked it
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Roxanne
Mar 11, 2009 rated it it was amazing
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Nicole
Jun 08, 2009 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: british, classics
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Ana
May 25, 2014 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Robyn Blaber
Mar 03, 2015 rated it it was amazing
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Jodie
Mar 23, 2019 marked it as to-read
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