Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Book Read on 11 / 1 / 2007
It started to improve towards the end. It was ... ok.
I don't really like how the kids cartwheel all the time. For some reason that really annoyed me. I've very seldom, perhaps never, seen a child cartwheel out of joy.
I appreciate what Golding was doing with the entire Heart of Darkness type thing, but at times he was a bit heavy-handed and clumsy with the leitmotif. Another interesting reading of this, which I haven't seen anyone talk about, was the Nazi Germany correlation. The book was written right after WWII and there seems to be a couple of occasions where you could shoehorn the story into an allegory.
Nevertheless, it is not one of the books that I was afraid I didn't "get", when I was young. I got it.
Reviewer: William Koplitz
3 out of 5