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I like it, but then I tend to like things that delve into human nature and our more primal instincts. Also I tend to like things that are a little twisted, maybe that's just me.

This book was great. I would say easily Top 25 books of all time. Maybe not up there like The Catcher in the Rye, but still one of the greats.

It's so sad everyone says they hate this book. I had to study it for my GCSE English Literature and at the time I honestly didn't have much love for it either, but now that I think back on it Golding is such a talented and subtle writer, I want to read it again without the pain of having to write it, because that just takes some of the joy out of it.

I've just read The Spire by the same author for my AS level Literature paper and I loved that a lot as well. Golding is seriously talented and amazing, even if you didn't like Lord of the Flies in an academic setting, it could just be that the school and crappy teachers killed it for you.

I loved Lord of the Flies! I liked the fact that these boys, who seemed so innocent, could be so brutal. The flipside to respectable good-natured children.

--Medusa.

I hated this book...it was too morbid and gross.

I had to do a project on this one for school, freshman year. We had to make an interpretive video about it. I have to say, I was pretty thoroughly impressed by the horrible feelings that man was able to evoke with that book. I hated it, it disgusted me, I even had nightmares, and I wished I'd never read it, but at the same time... damn. O.O

I agree with the Professor. This book made me physically sick to my stomach, but it really is amazing.

It was all right as far as literary techniques go, but still it was very dull and at the same time so disgusting that I couldn't read any more - but I had to for school.

Lord of the Flies was okay - not one of my favorites, but it did have a good storyline.

I'll tell you what though, Piggy really annoyed me. If I'd heard him asking for his specs or for the conch one more time...

I think the reason it was such a hit with my class is because I spent my year in English with the most morbid people ever. They were obsessed with death... Many of them could relate with Jack, actually.

*Takes a deep breath*

I liked it, sorta. Heh, hehe... Hee... Don't kill me!

As someone mentioned before about a uh, nobleman... This one's definately a book for thinkers. You need to ponder and wonder as you read the piece for maximum enjoyment. Me, I enjoyed the symbolism etc etc. Even though I had to read it for school! And do an essay. And stuff. But there's a reason why nasty teachers worldwide make bored teens read this book. A lot of thought has been put to it - So much that the readers have to think as well.

Think. It's good for you.

Morbid? Terrible?

This book is amazing. And I never saw it as morbid, or gross. There's so many books worse than it, this story never dipped into how truly awful people can be, not to the full potential of human ills. Still though, the book is a beautiful microcosm for the world at the time, and more than "morbid" it's just plain sad - that left on their own, these human children will do this to one another.

My favorite character was Simon. I just adored him, and his story was so sad. Somewhat confusing though, because I don't think they ever said he was epileptic, and yet I got the idea that he was epileptic somehow...?

Still, I LOVE this book.

clograbby wrote:I got the idea that he was epileptic somehow...?

I agree with you, I think he was epileptic, and that's one of the things that set him apart from the others. Like Piggy was asthmatic with specs, [spoiler]and that's why those 2 characters died. [/spoiler] Difference is dangerous. I agree, it is a beautiful book while being horrible and disturbing at the same time.

I can see why people would say it's morbid and disgusting, but I think that's kind of the point. It's meant to represent the bad side of people and society.

I hated that book. I think maybe it was mostly because I hated the teacher who taught it to me. She was overly dramatic and kept pointing out all the important details. Anway, I just thought the whole concept was weird. I know there was a lot of what my teacher called "ingenious" symbolism and stuff, but I thought that the book was really boring until the last two chapters.

I never finished reading LOTF - I tried at 13, but it was simply too... dry for me then.

But I have read a few studies and things about it. The one I liked the best? One talking about LOTF and Catcher in the Rye - "Things were always happening at your rotten fancy prep school, people picking on you at your rotten fancy prep school, or being shot down on a plane to your fancy prep school." Just ab observation - I doubt that kids who were born on the streets would have been quite so savage.

Honestly? I hear things. People tell me about the pretty rotten savage things that go on in their neighborhoods. If you know people who get beaten down and you carry a knife around for protection, I doubt you'd see glory in cutting another kid's head off.

I probably should read LOTF, with it being a classic and everything, but it just doesn't seem real. At all.

Um EWW did you get the part were they were killing the sow. THAT WAS DISTUBING IF YOU GET WHAT IT MEANT. They raped the sow before they killed it. Don't believe me? Go back and read that part a little closer. Our teacher described alot of the symbolisms in there. I will never read that book, Again. My best friend burst out laughing in the middle of class when the teacher read that Piggy died. What's so funny?