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Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies
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Start date
May 1, 2016
Finish date
May 31, 2016
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Co-Winner of the April 2016 Short Read Poll - so we will read it in May

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Summer (speaking_bookish)
Dec 29, 2020 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: adult, own, ya, classics, cover-love, special-editions, popsugar-2020
While Lord of the Flies was a compelling story I was still happy to see it come to an end. Some people shelf this as middle grade or young adult based on the age of the characters. I think I will go with Stephen King's assessment in the introduction of this book and say this is a story about young boys for adults. I can't imagine a 12 year old picking up this book and not being appalled by the actions taken in the story. It's brutal and bloody and I'm not sure that I am convinced this is how a b ...more
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Henry
Jul 04, 2017 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: favorites
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Kylie
Jul 22, 2017 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: read-2017, library-available-read
Virginia Palmer
Nov 11, 2017 rated it really liked it
Shelves: top-100-classics
Mouse
Mar 04, 2018 rated it it was amazing
Sally LOVE
Mar 25, 2018 rated it really liked it
Audrey
Jun 07, 2018 rated it it was amazing
2 likes · 
Dawn McCauley
Jun 15, 2018 rated it liked it
Kowshik Debnath
Jul 15, 2018 marked it as to-read
~☆~Autumn
Oct 29, 2018 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
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Summer
Jan 03, 2019 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Matt
Feb 02, 2022 rated it it was amazing
Karina
Jun 08, 2019 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics
Filippa
Jun 09, 2019 marked it as to-read
Human In
Sep 13, 2019 rated it liked it
archkull
Sep 25, 2019 rated it really liked it
Fadma Echchakery
Jan 28, 2020 rated it really liked it
Pooja Jha
Jan 04, 2020 marked it as to-read
Emma
Jan 24, 2020 marked it as to-read
Tom
Mar 26, 2020 marked it as books-for-discussion
Tara
May 19, 2020 rated it really liked it
Shelves: classics, fantasy
Romila Jogdand
May 28, 2020 marked it as to-read
Shelves: classics
Suzy Davies
Aug 15, 2020 rated it it was amazing
Alex Kilner
Nov 20, 2020 marked it as to-read
Summer
Dec 30, 2021 marked it as modern-classics  ·  review of another edition
Tony
Sep 08, 2022 marked it as to-read
Joy Liabres
Nov 19, 2022 marked it as to-read
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