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--Re-reads 1. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 2. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 3. 1984 by George Orwell 4. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 5. Beloved by Toni Morrison 6. Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez 7. Catch-22 ...

--Re-reads 1. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 2. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 3. 1984 by George Orwell 4. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 5. Beloved by Toni Morrison 6. Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez 7. Catch-22 ...

... Things Fall Apart, The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, Nineteen Eighty Four, All Quiet on the Western Front and Lord of the Flies. For the most part, I think these are all great books and I have enjoyed teaching almost all of them. There probably will also be group reads, so you ...

... teinbeck The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Candide by Voltaire The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks Lord of the Flies by William Golding Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

136. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

56. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

... and Dune I read many years ago and was unimpressed due to the cultures that they depicts dependence on a drug culture. Lord of the Flies never did anything for me; I am still amazed that anyone ever considered it an important book. Children can behave badly? That is a revelation? Children ...

For English LTers, can you just remind us how old that makes your daughter? I'm guessing 16-ish? If I'm right then she has some great books to choose from and I would especially recommend Things Fall Apart, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The House of Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Pride and Preju ...

... Jane Eyre, The Outsider, Alice in Wonderland, Rebecca, A Passage to India, The Eyre Affair, Sopie's World, Lord of the Flies, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, On Chesil Beach, Life of Pi, Beloved, 1984, Frankenstein, Of Mice and Men and The Color Purple. Still quite a ...

... Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez Sophie's World, Jostein Gardner Lord of the Flies, William Golding Maestro, Peter Goldsworthy The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol A World of Strangers, Nadine Gordimer Six Feet of Country, Nadine Gordi ...

... . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. The Candidates Dracula Frankenstein Paradise Lost by Milton Catch 22 Lord of the Flies The Iliad The Odessy The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger

Golding's Lord of the Flies

... some article about this book being chilling because the kids in it are so young, and I think maybe it was compared to Lord of the Flies....but it really wasn't as bad as you'd think. And I don't know, maybe that's a generational thing, or maybe I'm desensitized to violence because of all ...

Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory The Once and Future King by T. H. White Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

82 - haniwitch, I also read Lord of the Flies in school, I think grade 7 or 8. I remember giving my head a shake at the end and thinking 'Wow, I'd forgotten they were just kids.' I haven't read it since then but I've been meaning to reread it. I think it was one of the first books I read that ...

One cannot dismiss Lord of the Flies. It is a singular masterpiece whereas, though I love both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, they are not. They have been done before and since, just not as significantly nor as well. And as to Woolf; most any book of hers you put in there will ...

>2 Wuthering Heights removed for Jane Eyre? No, no, no, no! Take out Lord of the Flies to make room for Jane Eyre! WH must stay! I don't think I'd count Joyce as a British writer, but I've not yet read Ulysses, so I don't really feel qualified to argue that point. I would change The ...

This list, I think I would leave as is. I don't think you can remove Golding, as Lord of the Flies is a masterpiece any way you look at it. And though I agree with the perversions of D.H., I think that one must remain as well. I think this is a good, well rounded list.

... Black Book, The White Castle Harold Pinter José Saramago Baltazar and Blimunda William Golding Lord of the Flies, Pincher Martin Isaac Bashevis Singer -many books Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godet Jean-Paul Sartre John Steinbeck Ernest Hemi ...

I have never read anything of Golding's beyond Lord of the Flies, so I will check that one out. I may check out the BBC video as well. Thanks for the recommendation and review, Laura.

... recently finished The Napoleon of Notting Hill. Wisewoman, I agree with you that it's an excellent book. Kind of like a Lord of the Flies lite--full of tribalism and violence. I also read Chesterton's play Magic (http://bit.ly/9BWm6) about a magic trick that might involve real magic and ...

... Un viejo que leia novelas de amor (Chile); Pantaleon y las visitadoras (Peru); Fires on the plain (Philippines); Lord of the Flies (Unknown island); The Things they Carried (Vietnam); Going after Cacciato (Vietnam); TBR possibilities: need to find some! March - Caribbean Apr ...

... Dog Years 1995 - Seamus Heaney: misc poems 1993 - Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye 1983 - William Golding: Lord of the Flies 1982 - Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Crown of Feathers 1976 - Saul Bellow: Henderson ...

... Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith 504. The Sound of Waves Yukio Mishima 506. Bonjour Tristesse Françoise Sagan 508. Lord of the Flies William Golding 527. Wise Blood Flannery O’Connor 554. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 594. The Outsider Albert Camus 621. The Hobbit ...

... by Palahniuk and The Stand by Stephen King, until I realized that the only possible answer would be, ironically enough, Lord of the Flies by William Golding. So long as I get to be the one holding the conch.

Original List: 500-599 503 Bonjour Tristesse 508 Lord of the Flies 510 The Go-Between 514 Lucky Jim on Mount TBR 518 Casino Royale 519 The Judge and His Hangman 526 Day of the Triffids on Mount TBR 529 The Catcher in the Rye 535 The Third Man 536 The 13 Clocks 538 T ...

... some of that banned list were required reading in English class - like To Kill a Mockingbird (which I adored) and Lord of the Flies (which I hated).

... The Moviegoer 17. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch 18. The Dragon In The Sea 19. Revolutionary Road 20. Lord of the Flies

Here's mine (in no particular order) from U.S.A.: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Lord of the Flies Animal Farm Fahrenheit 451 The Girl with Silver Eyes

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Farenheit 451 Lord of the Flies Of Mice and Men You had a wide age range there...

... Mercy mayhap I might spend the rest of the month reading them. The Importance of being Earnest, the Color Purple, Lord of the Flies, The Catcher in the Rye, Going Solo, Dracula, 1984, The Jungle Book, Catch-22, Slaughterhouse 5, Jane Eyre, The Scarlet Letter, To Kill ...

... So I certainly think where you live as well as which school you go to matter as to the quality of education. We read Lord of the Flies in 8th grade. I remember the classroom and that I didn't like the book at all.

... that year. And every year, almost without fail, my kid will be reading something I only just finished. This year it is Lord of the Flies - my son is a sophomore and it is to be their first novel of the year. I read it only last month for the first time! The bright side is that it makes it ...

Bookmarque It sounds almost like you're describing The Lord of the Flies or The Road.

... Settings - The Whiskey Rebels New-to-Me Authors - Scottsboro Next in the Series - The Snack Thief Older than Me - Lord of the Flies Other Nonfiction - In the Footsteps of Marco Polo Mysteries/Thrillers - Child 44 Category I had the hardest time choosing a favorite? Civil War. To ...

... 14/2009 6 The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith (1955) 6/16/2009 7 O! Pioneers by Willa Cather (1913) 3/9/2009 8 Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954) 8/14/2009 9 The Strange Case of Dr Jykell and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) 8/17/2009 Other non-ficti ...

... threw in the diary too. For my renewal books I took My Family And Other Animals, which is wonderfully whimsical, and Lord of the Flies, the Poetry Anthology and the William Trevor short stories, which I'm getting v excited about. Looking around the Members' Room, there were plenty of ...

... market. I got them to let me take the Booker Prize Winners. I bought Bleak House," "Tinker, Tailor Soldier Spy," Lord of the Flies," and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Probably good advice to buy cheap, but I just had to have Bleak House.

... when I was grew large enough to be a danger to them if I became upset. They behaved like a bunch of animals, or the kids in Lord of the Flies, and respected only brute force.

... a dead body nearby, and an adult army deserter) in the town to fend for themselves. There could be lots of comparisons to Lord of the Flies, but most really are not that valid to me: This is an older group of boys who have been put into a reformatory by either the courts or their parents as ...

... had "moved" without my being away of it! I've starred the thread and am now caught up--if somewhat overwhelmed! I read Lord of the Flies in college and it "blew me away." It's probably time to revisit it and see how well it has held up. I remember it "haunted" me for a very long time. N ...

Book #89 Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Like every other literate English-speaking person, I've heard of this book but had never read it before now. It is the story of a group of British school boys stranded on a tropical Pacific island following a plane crash. There are no ...

Book #72 (9 left) Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Category #7, older than me (published 1954) Like every other literate English-speaking person, I've heard of this book but had never read it before now. It is the story of a group of British school boys stranded on a tropical Paci ...

... for a few more months) is Lark Rise to Candleford, A History of Western Philosophy, The Silver Branch, and possibly The Lord of the Flies or Trafalgar. Os. edited to add "Trafalgar"

29. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The only classic I really enjoyed at school was Lord of the Flies by William Golding. I quite liked 1984 by George Orwell too, but I think Animal Farm would have been a better choice, even though it made me cry, and still depresses me when I think of it. I don't read many classics, ...

The only classic I really enjoyed at school was Lord of the Flies by William Golding. I quite liked 1984 by George Orwell too, but I think Animal Farm would have been a better choice, even though it made me cry, and still depresses me when I think of it. I don't read many classics, ...

... things in boring rote ways and people might learn, but they will correspondingly learn to hate the subject. I read Lord of the Flies before being forced to read it and liked it. But even I grew to dislike it during the year I was forced to re-read it for class. Being tested chapter by ...

... and Emma you are reading the books with a very different approach than when you are 'just' reading them. While I read lord of the flies for my own enjoyment, I was 'forced' to read Mayor of casterbridge I prefer Mayor over Flies for many reasons. None of which are related to school. Pe ...

Question: is there any evidence that being made to read Great Expectations or Lord of the flies actually discourages young people from reading other things? If not, then it isn't doing any more harm than the other unpleasant things one is made to do at school (play team sports, eat school ...

... assigned to different people that I never got the chance to read, I went out and read them on my own for fun. That includes The Lord of the Flies, which I liked. Banned or not, I read anything I could get my hands on. I object to schools having to cater to the lowest common denominator.

... Blood The Magus Cat's Cradle Breakfast at Tiffany's To Kill a Mockingbird Solaris The Golden Notebook Lord of the Flies The Lord of the Rings The Talented Mr. Ripley The Glass Bees The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles Veronika Decides to Die The Poisonwood Bible E ...

Lord of the Flies by William Golding. First read in high school back in the 1960's. (I'm giving away my ancientness!)

... someone to write a book so huge about something that can so easily be learned through infinitely more entertaining means. Lord of the Flies - I thought it was going to be entertaining, and then it wasn't. The following are French classics and/or best sellers and I'm not sure how popular ...

... e 3.5 Carlson, Ron (fic) The Hotel Eden Stories 3 Cotteril, Colin (m) The Coroner's Lunch 4.5 Golding, William (fic) Lord of the Flies 4 Hoyt, Elizabeth (R) To Seduce a Sinner 3.5 Mortenson, Greg (NonFic) Three Cups of Tea 3 Steinbeck, John (fic) The Pearl 3 Strasser, Todd (fic) ...

Dorian Gray is very tempting. Lord of the Flies, not so much. I finally read it a year or two ago and didn't really like it. It reminded me too much of Conrad, who was also not to my taste. No wonder the sophomores hate reading it ....

Lord of the Flies and Dorian Gray will definitely be on my list. I currently only have paper backs of these.

Lord of the Flies is a good inclusion! Have most of the others and since there is no Barbara Pym nor The Ordeal of GIlbert Pinfold I may take a hiatus from the Society (and giver my bank account a chance to recover from yielding to temptation on Night Thoughts.

... the influential legacy of Oscar Wilde's gothic fable A Picture of Dorian Gray, renowned novelist Ian McEwan introduces Lord of the Flies, and Dame Jacqueline Wilson, former Children's Laureate, tells us why Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes remains among her favourite children's books. Amo ...

... listed as most tagged with dystopia I had read seven: 1984 Animal Farm The Handmaids Tale Farenheight 451 Lord of the Flies Never Let Me Go The Road The one that effected me the most. To the point where I couldn't even complete it because it made me feel sick was The R ...

Conch!!! Thank you!!! :D Yes, the horn-like ones, as the one used by the boys in Lord of the Flies, actually. :P ETA: which makes me doubly stoopid for forgetting the word, as in Spanish it's "concha".

... most likely. When I came home from work I find a padded envelope of books that I had forgotten that I had ordered: Lord of the Flies by William Golding (a book my son had to read last year) Oakdale Confidential:Secrets Revealed by Katie Peretti Then I find a book on the book ...

... with bibles, but for the other two note that many more people have the stand-alone editions of A Christmas Carol and Lord of the Flies. I would probably say that How to Be a Christian Without Being Religious is your least shared book. As for me, I have around 60 books that no one ...

... collections (well, that's a generalization using Engineering Induction). But, now I can only view House of Leaves and Lord of the Flies on my catalog page! halps!

... - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 60 Love In The Time Of Ch ...

I rather enjoyed Lord of the Flies, but I had an amazing teacher. I agree with The Scarlet Letter though. I also think Macbeth isn't one that should be read in high school. I'm not even against Shakespeare, and I couldn't stand it. To Kill a Mockingbird wasn't bad, but my 9th, 10th, ...

Lord of the Flies calls into question how civilized people are at heart. I can see some fundamentalist religions not appreciating the boys reverting to animalistic behavior

Lord of the Flies and The Bridge to Terabithia were two that puzzled me, but it's been a while since I've read either of them. Alternately, whatever got them banned might've registered to me as so minor that I didn't even take notice.

And here are the ones that I hated: Disgrace - totally forgettable Lord of the Flies - they teach this in schools?! :( The Catcher in the Rye - just not my thing; I respect it, I just don't care for it A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - I am not a Joyce fan - at all Gul ...

... even like Christina Rossetti, I just can't bear having absolutely no idea where it went! Also randomly missing my copy of Lord of the Flies. Grrrr.

I've just abandoned The Double Tongue by William Golding. Having just re-read his first book, the ubiquitous Lord of the Flies, I was intrigued to find I had his last book, which was unfinished and published posthumously on my TBR. It's about the oracle at Delphi, and quite interesting, but ...

... I spit my last breath at thee. (Melville, Moby Dick) Maybe there is a beast - maybe it's only us. (Golding, The Lord of the Flies) All Animals Are Equal. But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others. (Orwell, Animal Farm) Edit: Added touchstones.

... to fend for themselves, with mixed results, until the villagers return. Though there are inevitable comparisons to Lord of the Flies, I think Oe's novel is much more brutal, both in concept and language. He has some truly horrifying descriptions that really vividly convey the childrens' ...

... the Mohicans 34. Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby 35. Little Prince 36. Little Women 37. Lolita 38. Lord of the Flies 39. The Lord of the Rings 4o. Moby Dick 41. The Name of the Rose 42. Nineteen Eighty-Four 43. Oliver Twist 44. Once and Future King 45. ...

... Arthur Conan Doyle 8. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 10. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 11. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 12. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 13. Siddhartha by ...

... picking up and putting down The Corrections. I see what you mean. Like you, Miss-Owl, I'd put A Clockwork Orange and The Lord of the Flies in the same way. My 17-year-old daughter has just read them both, followed by L'Etranger (which she read in French) and she's just done a brilliant ...

... girls agree that it's adolescent fiction at best. He good-naturedly defended it, but we agreed to disagree :) Finished Lord of the Flies last night and actually really enjoyed it. I'm not sure 'enjoyed' is the right terminology, but it was a gripping, visceral, brutal read - I guess I ...

... it off the 1001 list, which was still not quite enough to make it worthwhile! Good luck with it. My current read is Lord of the Flies, a rather embarrassing omission for a high school English teacher. My defence is that when it comes to choosing Year 10 books, I always go for good ol' Mo ...

... I Live Now by Meg Rosoff World Religions by John Bowker All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot Lord of the Flies by William Golding Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Books to Read: Snow Flower ...

... read Mister Pip? wookiebender: more happy birthday wishes for Miss Boo :) Oh, and speaking of high school reading, my Lord of the Flies is an "educational edition". Not sure exactly how it differs from other editions... it's more detailed about how to blow a conch or stick a pig, maybe? ...

... of Maladies, I thought it was simply marvellous. Miss-Owl, I'm not sure if I'd be worried about never reading The Lord of the Flies. I had to read it at school, and I think I'm still scarred. pinkozcat, I was wondering what that deleted message was about. :) I can't say I'm ...

... it would be a spoiler to say any more, so if anyone belongs to the BC 1001 library & wants a read, let me know! Next up: The Lord of the Flies (a very embarrassing omission in this English teacher's repertoire!)

... Wrath Chronicles of Narnia The lion the witch and the wardrobe Animal Farm Da Vinci Code Handmaid's Tale Lord of the Flies Atonement Of Mice and Men Oliver Twist Notes from a Small Island The Color Purple Charlotte's Web Watership Down

We read 1984, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, Brave New World and even Ayn Rand (not that we understood it) in high school! Some personal favorites I can remember are A Wrinkle in Time, The Giver, Bradbury and Heinlein.

... but read both The Call of the Wild and White Fang. Could tell the same about The Last of the Mohicans. I read Lord of the Flies and Shogun, a bit later, actually in my high school years. I loved them. There are some books I'm sure I read some time, ages ago but can't remember ...

41- The catcher in the rye * 42- Memoirs of Hadrian 43- The old man and the sea * 44- Lord of the flies 45- The lord of the rings 46- Doctor Zhivago 47- Manon des sources 48- One hundred years of solitude 49- 2001: a space odyssey 50- The godfather 51- The year of the ...

Finished Lord of the Flies (bleh) a couple of days ago. Now reading The Woman In White

... FEVER and his volume of collected short stuff are all mighty fine. CRASH is good, RUNNING WILD well nigh perfect (a LORD OF THE FLIES for the 21st century). CONCRETE ISLAND, HIGHRISE. The recent stuff was fun: SUPERCANNES, COCAINE NIGHTS.... DAY OF CREATION was the only ...

I picked up Lord of the Flies last night and read it quickly. I skimmed/speed read through a lot of it because it was just that painful to me. Not poorly written, I don't mean that, it just made me feel ill. I think it was supposed to. Anyway, now I'm reading a mystery, The Monk Who Vanished. I ...

I took a flight to an island last night, but it was full of savage little boys who kept talking about Lord of the Flies, goodness knows I have my fill of savage boys right in my own home, so I finished my visit rather quickly and am now in the Ireland of the seventh century with Sister Fidelma ...

... it would hold up if I read it again. Other high school reads I thought were wonderful at the time, and still think so: Lord of the Flies; 1984; Animal Farm; and in junior high, The Merchant of Venice. I'll be interested in finding out which replacement(s) for A Separate Peace you ...

>48 Not entirely sure Lord of the Flies is a good idea. My entire class suffered immensly through it. I'm sure I'd like it much more now, but I still somehow keep avoiding a re-read of it... Definitely To Kill a Mockingbird, though, and Animal Farm. And I think the old standby of Shak ...

... is a really great book to learn literary techniques from (metaphor, allegory, motif) and whatnot. A is for adultery. :) Lord of the Flies should be taught to every school I believe. Just a fantastic book where you can learn so much. Plus, as a side project, you can have them read Nip the Bud ...

... don't automatically know how common it is. As for boarding school books, the one that had a big impact on me as a kid was Lord of the Flies which I think is already on lots of HS reading lists and has been there for decades. As for what famous murder was supposedly influenced by Catcher, ...

... Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy. 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense ...

... instance. 13. Any "required reading" you hated in high school that wasn't so bad ten years later? I didn't like Lord of the Flies but I probably never will, The Odyssey was okay but weird, and I doubt I'll like Romeo and Juliet. I like To Kill a Mockingbird. 14. What is the ...

... Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 63 The Secret ...

... Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbe ...

... Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy. 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 ...

... Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy. 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense ...

... Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy. *48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood *49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel *52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons *54 Sense and ...

... Borders: The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson Lord of the Flies by William Golding A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

... past the first two pages. Same goes for Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights and Death in Venice. #28 Oh I loved Lord of the Flies! Granted, with my bad memory, I can't recall exactly why I loved it, but I know I did. #35 YESSS!!! Exactly! I used to enjoy the Kay Scarpetta series, ...

Here is a list: Lord of the Flies A Farewell to Arms Dolores Claiborne Prince of Tides The Talented Mr. Ripley Brideshead Revisited Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Odyssey Rebecca Lost Horizon Tales of South Pacific There are more but I can't think of ...

... been a find! Incidentally, the charity shop in which I volunteer received a donation recently that included a 1st edition Lord of the Flies. Even without the dust jacket, we valued it at between £200 and £400 pounds. With a dust jacket is more like £1200-£2000. We will probably send it to ...

... In my shame, I will lash out and partially blame my high school teachers, who for some reason didn't choose to assign us Lord of the Flies and Of Mice and Men when every other class seemed to be reading those. (Yeah, bad excuse, I know :) To my slight redemption, there are 37 on my (ever ...

Lord of the Flies is really good!

So far this year i have: the red room by August Strindberg, 1879 Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 1954 and finaly The Gras is Singing by Doris Lessing, 1950 I have two more "oldies" on my soon to be read list but il get back to you on those.

So far this year i have: the red room by August Strindberg, 1879 Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 1954 and finaly The Gras is Singing by Doris Lessing, 1950 I have two more "oldies" on my soon to be read list but il get back to you on those.

... elsson 17 Röda rummet by August Strindberg 18 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 19 Lord of the Flies by William Golding 20 The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens 21 We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver 22 The Road by Cormac Mc ...

... I would rather clip my nails. Great Expectations. I'm fairly certain this was written just to torture people in h.s. Lord of The Flies. Maybe because I was forced to read it...? Atlas Shrugged. So did I. WTF? I'm sure there are more but I've blocked them out. Now, there is one ...

... - Isaac Asimov 32. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger 33. The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway 34. Lord of the Flies - William Golding 35. The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis 36. On the Road = Jack Kerouac 37. Rabbit, Run - John Updike 38. To Kill ...

... that here is this isolated little community and apparently it was always just a few moments away from becoming a sort of Lord of the Flies analogy. It has left me trying to assess the info and fit it into my study of violence.

... Breakfast at Tiffany's -- Truman Capote 54) Pnin -- Vladimir Nabokov 55) Lolita -- Vladimir Nabokov 56) Lord of the Flies -- William Golding 57) Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison 58) The Old Man and the Sea -- Ernest Hemingway 59) The Catcher in the Rye -- J. D. ...

... this month: Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan First Love by Adrienne Sharp Lord of the Flies by William Golding The hardest part is deciding which book to read next, whether to read one from the shiny new stack of books or one from my ever ...

... a special hatred when reading it. Rather put in a plane and crash them on a deserted island. See who survives a la Lord of the Flies

... Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 64 The Lovely Bones ...

I liked Lord of the Flies and Heart of Darkness. Then again, I like reading about man in his primal, violent state. What happens in A Separate Peace, I totally forgot?

... of "steal this book." Though there are other books i can't find which i'd rather turn up! #38 - imagine you didn't like lord of the flieseither? (i didn't, along w/ not liking a separate peace) but it may just be i didn't like any book assigned in an English class in high school. I hated ...

... when one takes into account that a good portion of the story is true. In many ways, The Terror is very reminiscent of Lord of the Flies. Personally, I loved all 766 pages of my edition. For such a large book, there are surprisingly few dry spells and I would find myself reading 100 ...

>6, 14/15 is when we read Lord of the Flies in my school district, beginning of freshman year of high school. Sixth, seventh, and maybe beginning of eighth grade do seem a little young to me though, that's a lot of symbolism for middle school.

I remember reading The Good Earth, Gone with the Wind in middle school. Lord of the Flies? Scary indeed. I'm not sure I want my 15-year old to read that one anytime soon.

... books that would be on the list. They're all great, but I need newer books. Call of the Wild, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies (scary book), and Light in the Forest could all be on the list. A good new book for the list would be The Giver. Can you give me some suggestions on ...

... on humanity when survival rather than comfort becomes sought after, the primal animal side of every human being (a la Lord of the Flies), the choice of love and dignity against life, the psychological torture by which a nation can be held captive, the process of desensitization... I could ...

... first book is pushed to the wayside. I've done this quite a few times, and to a number of great books (The Bluest Eye, Lord of the Flies, The General in His Labyrinth...) because they just weren't what I wanted to read at that moment.

... I LOVE Octavio Paz. Wole Soyinka: He has essay about fasting, which I love. Random, eh? William Golding: Lord of the Flies was one of my favorite novels growing up. Cselaw Milosz: My brother introduced me to his poetry, I have been in love ever since. Pablo Neruda ...

... I LOVE Octavio Paz. Wole Soyinka: He has essay about fasting, which I love. Random, eh? William Golding: Lord of the Flies was one of my favorite novels growing up. Cselaw Milosz: My brother introduced me to his poetry, I have been in love ever since. Pablo Neruda ...

... I LOVE Octavio Paz. Wole Soyinka: He has essay about fasting, which I love. Random, eh? William Golding: Lord of the Flies was one of my favorite novels growing up. Cselaw Milosz: My brother introduced me to his poetry, I have been in love ever since. Pablo Neruda ...

Couldn't get into The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. It was required reading in school and I just couldn't see what all the fuss was about. Also required reading in school: My Antonia by Willa Cather and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Willa Cather didn't ...

... to be a preponderance of "I didn't like" criticism. Fair enough, but what is supposed to replace The Scarlet Letter, Lord of the Flies, Death of a Salesman, etc. ? They'd really complain about reading Theodore Dreiser or Wyndam Lewis. (I saw a recently printed copy of Sister Carrie ...

I haven't read Lord of the Flies but I have read Gone with the Wind.

I haven't read The Amulet of Samarkand but i have read Lord of the Flies.

... Chinua Achebe 64. The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham 65. The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkein 66. Lord of the Flies William Golding 67. Day of the Triffids John Wyndham 68. Foundation Isaac Asimov 69. A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute 70. I, Ro ...

#130: I read Of Mice and Men and Lord of the Flies in HS and loved them both. I generally dislike "realistic" fiction (much prefer fantasy and sci-fi), so I was very pleasantly surprised to find that I liked them. I think the biggest problem with HS curriculums is that they force you to read ...

... ations How Green was my Valley In Her Shoes Kite Runner Last Temptation of Christ Little Children Lolita Lord of the Flies Memoirs of a Geisha Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Mists of Avalon, as well as so many King Arthur movies Namesake Pay it Forward ...

... the Day, 2008 56. The 13 Clocks, 2006 57. The Catcher in the Rye, 1980s 58. The Old Man and the Sea, 1970s 59. The Lord of the Flies, 1970s 60. The Lord of the Rings, 1970s

4. Lord of the flies - William Golding Wasn't really my kind of book. Didn't enjoy it very much.

... bizarrely for a co-ed school, to consist of thirty girls. So far my friend has given me Equus, The Crucible, Lord of the Flies, Victory: Choices in Reaction, Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House. At the moment the one I'm leaning toward is the only one I've read: The Crucible (a ...

... them as less than human, and abandon them when it appears that a plague has broken out. The book has been compared with Lord of the Flies (it was written before Lord of the Flies). However, in Nip the Buds the boys are sympathetic characters who maintain their humanity after being cut ...

... written by authors who mostly don't do speculative fiction. I liked most of my high school reading list: Animal farm, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and The Crucible all were fun and taught me interesting things about humanity. I even liked Thoreau ...

... much enjoyed reading this and on looking up more information about the writer after finishing the book I discovered that Lord of the Flies was based on the premise of this book. While The Coral Island portrays the boys as keeping their English morality especially in their dealings with the ...

I have to agree on The Lord of the Flies and how rules and morality can just die when outside of "society". On a similar note Blindness which was also mentioned earlier is disturbing. During the pivotal scene I actually started crying and was so angry and disgusted that I wanted to rip out ...

... everything I entered -- I know I read across a lot of styles, but still... Then it correctly predicted my loathing for Lord of the Flies (even though, yes, it IS in my library) and I was relieved. It's a fun new toy.

... I agree with the idea of reading books before getting rid of them; I often fall into a similar temptation. I also like Lord of the Flies - I won't say enjoy, as it's hard to actually enjoy that book, but a good story nonetheless.

... that three of those books were very short. Still, 5 books shouldn't be sniffed at. My week started rather brutally with Lord of the Flies, which I actually really enjoyed despite the savagery involved. The brutality continued with Triptych, which involved rape, murder, paedophilia, and ...

... March, Saul Bellow, 1968 159. Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis, 1968 160. The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley, 1970's 161. Lord of the Flies, William Golding, 1960's 162. The Story of O, Pauline Reage, 1960's 163. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 2007 164. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia H ...

... March, Saul Bellow, 1968 159. Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis, 1968 160. The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley, 1970's 161. Lord of the Flies, William Golding, 1960's 162. The Story of O, Pauline Reage, 1960's 163. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 2007 164. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia H ...

... Andrew Davidson 29. The Stories of Devil-Girl by Anya Achtenburg 30. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 31. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 32. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer 33. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer 34. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer 35. So long at the Fair by Ch ...

Thanks for the welcomes! 2. The Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne 3.5/5 I picked this novel up as I teach Lord of the Flies and thought I should have some familiarity with this. It was reasonably entertaining but not as good as Robinson Crusoe or Treasure Island - seems much like ...

... d. The Man Who Was Thursday e. Jude The Obscure f. Utopia g. Fanny Hill h. Lord Of The Flies i. My Man Jeeves 2. Modern Fiction (Written 1960 to present) a. Caught Stealing b. Sophie' ...

Christmas break is productive for reading. I've just finished reading The Time Traveller's Wife and The Lord of the Flies. I'm now making my way through The Ghost Brigades.

#7 Lord of the Flies I've never read this before. An interesting examination of the descent from civilization to savagery.

I have a few I want to reread this year including Anne of Green Gables and Lord of the Flies. I will be reading Hatchet by Gary Paulsen later today as I am teaching it to one of my classes after the Xmas break.

LOST 7/9 1. Lord of The Flies by William Golding (Completed 2 Jan) 2. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce (Completed 5 Jan) 3. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Completed 20 March) 4. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (Completed 22 ...

... ife Kenzaburo Oe, m - awarded Nobel Prize - I can personally recommend Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, a Japanese take on Lord of the Flies Banana Yoshimoto, f - of great wit and humor, Kitchen is her most famous novel Yasunari Kawabata, m - Nobel Prize winner - known for his subtle ...

... Sphere - Michael Crichton 3/5 #81 Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner 2.5/5 #82 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 3.5/5

The White Mary Lord of the Flies

... 9) The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman The Light In The Forest by Conrad Richter (finished 8/28/09) Lord Of The Flies by William Golding My Antonia by Willa Cather The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (finished 5/28/09) The Sunday P ...

... stand Steinbeck, Dickens, Dan Brown, and Stephen King. I was a sophomore in high school when I read The Lord of the Flies. It bothered me incredibly. We had to watch the film, too. What bothered me most was learning about what happened to the boys who played in the ...

1. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 2. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 3. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 4. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin 5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 6. 1984: A Novel by George Orwell 7. All The King's Men by Warren Robert Penn All ...

Tonight, I'll start in Lord of the flies by Golding.

I have read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone But I have never read Lord of the Flies

... te) Jose Saramago: Baltasar and Blimunda (favorite) Naguib Mahfouz: Children of the Alley (favorite) William Golding: Lord of the Flies (favorite) Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Samuel Beckett: Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable John Steinbeck: East ...

... The Trial is one of those books I'll reread and hope things turn out differently the second time. Just like when I reread Lord of the Flies and hoped that this time Piggy would be okay. (Shudder)

... by swimmingly -- just keeps getting worse and worse) Frankenstein by Mary W. Shelley In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Lord of the Flies by William Golding Nip the buds, shoot the kids by Kenzaburo Oe (like a Japanese Lord of the Flies)

... Nightwalker by Thomas Tessier. A semi-classic of werewolf flavour. 4. Into The Wild, Lost & Marooned Lord of The Flies. The classic by William Golding. Deliverance by James Dickey. Also a classic! I remember the movie, which made quite an impression on me!! The Backwoo ...

Recently I purchased The Things They Carried for book club and Lord of the Flies. I also will be making an Amazon purchase soon and want to buy Click and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

... Wild, Lost & Marooned: Backwoods by Edward Lee, Deliverance by James Dickey, The Totem by David Morrell and Lord of The Flies by William Golding. 5. Post Apocalypse & Dystopian: The Stand by Stephen King, Swan Song by Robert McCammon, The Road by Cormac M ...

127. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan This story was a very confronting one. A bit Flowers in the Attic meets The Lord of the Flies. Four children are left to care for their invalid mother when their father dies. McEwan is a superb writer - and even when I was cringing at the content, I ...

... by Michael Grant - a town is thrown into chaos when everyone over the age of 15 just disappears. Sort of a cross between Lord of the Flies, X-men, and X-Files. So far it's interesting but has tons of plots running through it so I'm waiting to see how Grant ties all the loose strings. Waiti ...

11. Lord of the flies - William Golding 208 p. Now I know where Stephen King got his inspiration.

I liked Lord of the Flies when I read it in grade 10, didn't like it much when I read it as a mature student for a class at university. BUT, it's not a difficult read, and it's fairly short. Of all the books on the list, I could name many, many others that are either difficult to read, or are way ...

... I found many of the characters impossible to like. However, I thought the ending was magnificent. I was also dreading Lord of the Flies. I read it this summer, and I did not hate it. My girls, on the other hand, did. Also, that is a quick read, too. --BJ

... recall correctly, we read Flowers for Algernon, Animal Farm, 1984, Anthem, A Canticle for Leibowitz, and I think Lord of the Flies. That was in the late 70s-early 80s.

171. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 172. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - first time I've read this and loved it 173. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle - going to read rest of the series 174. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer - liked this one better than New Moon 175. Silen ...

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs Lord Of The Flies - William Golding Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

... for a Princess, Visitors, Dolphin Boy, Under the Mountain and possibly Brave New World. Other sfnal books included Lord of the Flies and various Roald Dahl horror stories. I used Left Hand of Darkness for an exernal exam in sixth form, but it wasn't the book we'd studied for it ...

Awwww, I loved Lord of the Flies. We watched the black and white movie in school too, despite the newer one having come out just a few years before. I think the book I've hated most over the last few years was a short Japanese novel called Snakes and Earrings. It won the Akutagawa Prize in 2 ...

The worst book i have ever dragged myself through was Lord of the Flies. that book had a great concept but it was so dull i distinctly remember beating my head against a wall to ease the pain. the black and white movie was better because it had a funny mechanical boar.

... Ender's Game is likely to appeal heavily to school age kids. So long as it is handled well by the teacher, it (like Lord of the Flies) can show that 'required read' doesn't equal 'dull'. On the other hand, Shakespeare definitely also belongs in class. Let's face it, very few people ...

Lord of the Flies makes me ill. It's very clever and well written, but so bleak and deviod of anything redeeming. The same goes for Sleeping Dogs by Sonya Hartnett. Eragon was unoriginal, uninteresting and very poorly written. Mister Monday by Garth Nix started out with ...

Last year I took a course on dystopian novels and we read: Darkness at Noon, Nineteen Eighty-four, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, and one that hasn't been mentioned yet, Bend Sinister, by Nabokov. (I guess my university sees Animal Farm as dystopian, despite what has been said here.) I ...

... Bronte A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute The Red Tent by Anita Diamant A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Lord of the Flies - William Golding Ludo and the Starhorse by Mary Stewart Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck The Green Mile - Stephen King Jamaica Inn - Daphne D ...

Lipstick and Lies by Lesley Grant-Adamson Lord of the Flies by William Golding Night Cries by Laurien Berenson The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer Lord Edgeware Dies by Agatha Christie

... Lover by D. H. Lawrence Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Little Red Riding Hood by the Grimm Brothers Lord of the Flies by William Golding Lysistrata by Aristophanes Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee One Flew Ov ...

... some government-gone-bad (as you find in most dystopian works). Of all dystopian novels, I compare it most closely with Lord of the Flies, but instead of an island, the setting is a high rise, and instead of a group of British school boys, there is a group of British professionals. What ...

... some government-gone-bad (as you find in most dystopian works). Of all dystopian novels, I compare it most closely with Lord of the Flies, but instead of an island, the setting is a high rise, and instead of a group of British school boys, there is a group of British professionals. Wha ...

... the point of the novel. Obviously it has some elements of "society creates humanity" rather than the other way 'round, like Lord of the Flies, but maybe the real point is that the man and the boy think that their behavior matters, even as they know that it is the end of the line for humanity, ...

Well, studying a book at school is a surefire way of wrecking it. That's why I got my oldest lad to read LORD OF THE FLIES before some ill-prepared teacher screwed it up...

46, 47 I agree, Lord of the Flies really didn't do anything for me. I didn't enjoy reading it, but I persevered because it is so often talked about. I thought it might be worth it in the end, but it wasn't, really. Ah, well...

Good for you for finishing Lord of the Flies I had the same impulse a couple years ago but I found the first chapter so wretched I couldn't go on.

41. Lord of the Flies - William Golding : Another classic I read simply for the sake of having read it. It was interesting, but I would just rank it as average. billiejean in 888 Challenge : Billiejean's 888 (Aug 8, 2008, 4:34pm)

I have added a few more books to my lists. To my 1001 category, I added Lord of the Flies by William Golding. This was a quick read and a fairly interesting study on human nature. To my Children's Literature category, I added Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson. I loved this book. I ...

... patron saint of our parish Church, so I wanted to read some of his works. I liked this better than the last book. 45. Lord of the Flies. I have been meaning to read this for a while and I am glad that I finally did. It was quick moving. Well, I have three long books that I am trying ...

I guess I am not spending enough time on my longer books, because today I finished Lord of the Flies. I was prepared not to like it, but actually I did like it. I think my next book will be Daughter of Time. But first, I must advance those other books! --BJ

I am still reading Midnight's Children and also reading Lord of the Flies.

Well, I got a little off course. I put down Lord of the Flies and decided to finish St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works. This was much better than the last book that I read. I found parts of it to be beautiful. It also had some letters in the end which I found interesting. St. Bernar ...

... and Juliet, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl, The Scarlet Letter, The Once and Future King, Lord of the Flies, Pride and Prejudice, Native Son, Hamlet, The Kitchen God's Wife, and Invisible Man. I'm sure there were more. As for changes, I would ...

Start: July 27, 2008 End: July 27, 2009! I'll start with William Golding's Lord of The Flies, which I finished last week, and now I'm onto John Steinbeck's The Red Pony, which I love so far. I LOVE reading but I often find myself putting my novels on the back burner. Hopefully ...

... be an adult. Looking back on what I read, the best novels for (high school-level) students are 1. William Golding's Lord of the Flies: The age old "loss of innocence" theme is portrayed better and more intensely here than in other assigned novels. 2. Salinger's The Catcher in the Ry ...

I just finished rereading Golding's Lord of the Flies, which is one of my favorites, and now I'm onto The Red Pony by Steinbeck He's becoming one of my favorite authors so my opinion is very well biased, but I'm amazed by any book that can take me completely out of the city into a ...

Well, I finally found my copy of Lord of the Flies. The funny thing is it was just where I thought it would be! I don't know how I missed it. I think I was looking for a different color cover. Anyway, I think that I will read that one after I finish The Apostolate of Holy Motherhood. It is ...

... Prayer before Birth by Louis MacNeice; Morning Song by Sylvia Plath; Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney; and Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Music includes Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, Rufus Wainwright's The Art Teacher, John Tavener's To a child dancing in the wind, ...

... several other fairly long books, so it might take me a while to finish it. Also, I seem to have misplaced my copy of Lord of the Flies, so I guess it's time to organize those books! --BJ

... The Story of the Andes Survivors (Read) 2. Woodbrook (Read) 3. The Daughter of Time (Read) 4. Faust (Read) 5. Lord of the Flies (Read) 6. Inferno (Read) 7. Purgatorio (Read) 8. Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works (Read) 9. Apostolate of Holy Motherhood (Read) 10. Age ...

... Outsider 72. The Little Prince 73. The Plague 74. The Catcher in the Rye 75. The Judge and His Hangman 76. Lord of the Flies 77. The Story of O 78. The Lord of the Rings 79. On the Road 80. Homo Faber 81. The Once and Future King 82. Breakfast at Tiffany’s 83 ...

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... a lot more in my high school career, but I can't remember now! I know I read Animal Farm, 1984, Brave New World and Lord of the Flies but I don't think any of them were for class.

... by Edward M. Hallowell was very helpful to me. Because I'd never had to read it in high school, my son made me read Lord of the Flies by William Golding so that we could discuss it together. He have very different ideas about the end of this book!

You know, we read some pretty worthless stuff in high school, but I'm glad I read most of it. (I could have done without Lord of the Flies, which I had to read twice.) But still. High school English hipped me to the fact that Dickens kicked ass. You can't fault that. For summer reading we'd ...

I suppose it must be Lord of the flies, unless this is a clever double-bluff...

31. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 32. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer I have now started New Moon.

30. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Started Lord of the Flies last night haven't read this one since middle school should be interesting. I have to say I truley enjoyed Treasure Island I can not believe that it took me this many years to read of Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver ...

30. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Started Lord of the Flies last night haven't read this one since middle school should be interesting. I have to say I truley enjoyed Treasure Island I can not believe that it took me this many years to read of Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver ...

43. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding - a reread for me, but i came away as disturbed as i was the first time i read it decades ago. I kept wondering who would i be if i were one of the characters in that paradise island turned hell? This is one of those books which raise more ...

Finished up Lord of the Flies and Chicago Stories: Tales of the City. Lord of the Flies, of course, was AMAZING, and I enjoyed the Chicago stories as well. I really had to slog through a couple of them, such as Jane Addam's Twenty Years at Hull House and an excerpt from Theodore Dreisel's S ...

I'm halfway through rereading Lord of the Flies, and I cannot believe how AMAZING this book is and how much I missed out the first time I read it. I remember liking the book when I had to read it for school, but I really think doing assignments on a book detracts from the overall experience. And ...

... Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde Sir Dominick Ferrand by Henry James The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

... God's plan. A VERY, VERY good book! Now onto those Chicago short stories (FINALLY!), and I might double those up with Lord of the Flies so I can return everything to the library and come back with a batch of new books!

That's a pity Hazel, I have that and was looking forward to it. My online group are just about to do a group of Lord of the Flies, many have read it but others haven't.

My review of The Lord of the Flies is up. It's an interesting read, although I wasn't totally convinced by it if I'm honest. SlySionnach, how about The Difference Engine by William Gibson? It sounds pretty cool, I'd love ...

... by what happened during the climactic scene, I was rather shocked by HOW it played out. Strangely, I was not reminded of Lord of the Flies, like so many reviews were. I found the novel far more interesting as a sexual narrative than as a narrative of arrested development, perhaps because ...

... the Music of Time by Anthony Powell. 2. Contact by Carl Sagan. 3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. 4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding. 5. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. 6. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 7. The Poisonwood Bible by ...

... Stupid war. I think next I'm going to treat myself to a re-read of Interpreter of Maladies, and I should start Lord of the Flies, a Go Review that Book! assignment. (Which probably feels more so because in my head it's a book no-one ever reads except at school!) Oh, and I picked ...

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz can be usefully paired with Macbeth; Lord of the Flies is illuminated by Euripides' The Bacchae; C. S. Lewis's marvellous Till We Have Faces is a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche; also, Brokeback Mountain pairs nicely with Alice Munro ...

... that I've never read anything by Mark Twain. After Huck Finn, I have a stack of books to work through that includes Lord of the Flies by William Golding (a reread), Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (another reread), The Dead Zone by Stephen King, Disclosure by Michael Crichton ...

... list: State of Fear by Michael Crichton Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Chicago Stories: Tales of the City Lord of the Flies by William Golding I am Legend by Richard Matheson

27. Lord of the Flies - William Golding pgs: 208. Read 11-12 June. total pages: 7298

Lord of the Flies was badly written, IMHO. I can understand how one would like it because of the plot, but it stole the magic when Golding tried to interpret his own work to me.

I think a point needs to be made that reading specific books, ie Scarlet Letter, Lord of the Flies, and anything Steinbeck among others, is not for the pleasure of the HS student, but for the expanding of his/her ability to think. I don't think a fluffy book is going to do that.

... by so many here on LT that I had to find out why. I recently realized, thanks to LT, that after years of teaching Lord of the Flies that I did not own a copy. Of course I had to rectify that.

The Golden Spiders Rex Stout Day of the Locusts Nathaniel West Lord of the Flies William Golding Archie and Mahitabel Don Marquis The Flea's Sneeze Lynn Downey

... (because we read them out loud), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird (both of which I love), and Lord of the Flies which I hate. I managed to get through by just listening to the discussion on pretty much everything else until college!

In no particular order: Pride and Prejudice Measuring the World Lord of the Flies

... I'm finally at a place where I can start participating in this. LizT, I'd be curious to read what you have to say about Lord of the Flies by William Golding. I read it in high school and thought it was fascinating. For the person who chooses for me, can you please choose from my delongebrodeur in 50 Book Challenge : Delongebrodeur's reading in 08 (Jun 1, 2008, 1:21pm)

The Twits was a short little book but was interesting..would def. reccommend it for kids. Also finished Lord of the Flies and it was a great story as I had rememebered. It is sort of funny cause I watch the show Lost, and in the book they talk about 'the others'. 2008 book total: 25 Read ...

... at Tiffany's (467) 18. Doctor Zhivago (486) 19. Justine (488) 20. Lolita (496) 21. The Story of O (506) 22. Lord of the Flies (508) 23. For Whom the Bell Tolls (587) 24. The Power and the Glory (589) 25. Rebecca (603) 26. The Hobbit (610) 27. Out of Africa (614) 28 ...

28) Lord of the Flies by William Golding I liked this one! I've heard alot about this book, and seen refrences to it many a places, and I just now managed to track one down (!) and actually read it. I'm glad I did. After reading this I appreciate the laws, as well as the norms and rules of ...

At the moment I'm reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

... certainly not the worst written book I've ever read (lots of bad romance novels fill that spot,) but I never want to read Lord of the Flies again. Ugh.

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea was a powerful book. It feels somewhat like Lord of the Flies. It is sparse in prose but vivid in images. A young Japanese boy, his mother, her lover/husband come together with raw emotion. Violence and ignorance permeate. (I do not like ...

... that are more interesting than the "statistical islands". For my library, I'm thinking things like The Fountainhead, Lord of the Flies, and The Golden Compass. (Really good would be to suggest The Horse and His Boy and unsuggest The Last Battle). It would be cool if the member ...

Finished Measuring The World by Daniel Kehlmann, and am just about to start Lord Of The Flies.

Just came home from the library with The World According To Garp by John Irving Lord Of The Flies by William Golding Atonement by Ewan McEwan Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason by Helen Fielding

Book 35. Lord of the Flies by William Golding Ralph, Piggy, Sam and Eric the Twins, and Jack, along with their other schoolmates are wrecked on an uninhabitated Pacific Island without any adults. The boys vary in age from about 6 to young teens. Ralph is immediately elected as their leader ...

#68, torontoc Isn't there more than one version of The Lord of the Flies? If so, which one do you recommend? #69, Whisper1, Good Luck with Darkness at Noon. I hope you enjoy it!!!!

After you read the book Lord of the Flies, try to find the movie- it is very powerful. I saw it in a film class this year.

Next up for me is Lord of the Flies. I seem to be choosing my books with a thematic connection without really trying. This one fits in nicely with Darkness at Noon and The Handmaid's Tale I think.....power, politics, totalitarianism, etc. Last time I seemed to have a bit of a father and ...

... 2008 book total: 23 The Twits by Roald Dahl is up next, as well as a re-read (havn't read it since highschool), Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

... style of the book but will not discount it now based on your good experience. I will let you know what I think of both Lord of the Flies and All Quiet on the Western Front when I finish them. And I am now on the lookout for both Must Love Dogs and American Psycho. Not having read ...

... much nastier than the film, but still kept you guessing as to whether or not he was fantasizing. I highly recommend Lord of the Flies as a good adventure. Don't try to analyze it, just enjoy it. That's the beauty of it...pure and simple. As for All Quiet on the Western Front, it was a ...

... But it's also to suggest something about the nature of children, of humans, of evil. "Like the much more simplistic Lord of the Flies, to which it is sometimes compared....", I think Prose began. And we hear plenty about the competing, different, fragmented views of adults. (Who are, ...

... at how much richer and deep in terms of story and character. Look forward to hearing more on your reading!! I have Lord of the Flies and All quiet on the Western Front in my current TBR stack. I'll have to exchange thoughts with you on those when I finish them

Last night, I was reading the reviews on Amazon for Lord of the Flies and I wanted to know why anyone would give it only one star. Turns out the guy hated it because it was just about all the flies eating each other and it was so stupid. Oops, I just spoiled it for you.

I second The Lord of the Flies. What makes the book so disturbing is the truth that civilized humans are only one step from amoral barbarians. We look at Nazi Germany as a glaring example but we don't have to look that far. How is it that in contemporary America we have an ongoing debate about ...

... Makes me smile :) Am also sorry you were disappointed by Brave New World - I read it about the same time as 1984 and Lord of the Flies, which did both, it is true, have a bigger impact, but nonetheless, it made a big impression on me, so I find it sad when people don't enjoy it. That ...

... Go Tell It on the Mountain (long ago) Lasso rundt fru Luna (one of the most outstanding novels by a Norwegian author) Lord of the Flies (long ago, favorite, reread?) Fuglane (to be continued)

#29: Unfortunately for the characters of Lord of the Flies, they didn't start out with a free market model and instead set up a government with an elected authority figure with its consequent rivalry and disaffection completing the picture. A sad tale of how democracy engenders conflict.

... Thinks... Robinson Crusoe The Swiss family Robinson Foe The Tempest Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island Lord of the flies The Coral Island The blue lagoon ...no, I don't think so, somehow. I'll have a proper go later.

> 1 she was sure there was a woman in it. Okay, let's see . . . it's not Lord of the Flies . . .

... East of Eden! As much as I hate it now, The Fountainhead also changed my outlook on literature and life. So did Lord of the Flies.

... John Dollar. Marianne Wiggins is one of my favorite writers, but the ending of that book left me positively sick. Lord of the Flies for girls.

... I'm fascinated by this book, and it helps that most of my students latch on and enjoy it as well. It's influenced by Lord of the Flies (which I don't like), Apocolypse Now, and Heart of Darkness. It works around motifs of backpacking, Generation X and searching for identity, Vietnam, ...

easiest reply to Lord of the Rings would be Lord of the Flies, but its been done... so having read LOTR, I'll offer Life of Pi...

... included under The Chronicles of Narnia) The Little Prince (assigned reading for school) Looking for Alaska Lord of the Flies (assigned reading for school) Never Let Me Go Nickel and Dimed Night The Outsiders (read as a child) Pretties Pride and Prejudice (read ...

... OF A YOUNG GIRL ...which, amazingly, has no touchstone (Gr. 8) Fahrenheit 451 (Gr. 9?) The Great Gatsby (Gr. 11?) Lord of the Flies (Gr. 10) One Hundred Years of Solitude (college) A Raisin in the Sun (Gr. 10?) A Separate Peace (Gr. 10) Their Eyes Were Watching God (Gr. 11) ...

... everyones contact information so than in case i found a phone I would be able to get in touch with them. I would also bring Lord of the Flies because it is about boys who get stuck on an island and what happens to them.

... someone else did and told me about it and that was bad enough. A couple of more in the theme of how awful people can be, Lord of the Flies and The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956; an experiment in literary investigation

... be. So, school life has successfully intervened and the only books I have read since January are school books. 4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 5. Macbeth by William Shakespeare - and that's a play! So, whilst I'll continue to count the books I read I can definitely ...

Lord of the Flies anyone? One of the reasons the whole "socialization" argument has never carried much weight with me.

The Inheritors by William Golding... I loved The Lord of Flies, when I was 14, so I decided some years later to read sg. else from Golding. I don't remember anything of the book... Maybe I was too young? Not clever enough? Who knows.. But I don't think so.

... in the Rye* Catch-22* Lolita To Kill a Mockingbird The Lord of the Rings* Animal Farm A Clockword Orange* Lord of the Flies Slaughterhouse-Five The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* Rebecca* The Count of Monte Cristo On my shelf: The Great Gatsby 1984 Brav ...

... ages ago for me as well (9th grade would have been 1976-77). I've read At Swim, Two Boys too!! And more recently than Lord of the Flies :-) I'll reach back into high school again: Animal Farm anyone?

Okay, I'll bite. I read Lord of the Flies in 9th grade English as well, although that was in 1973. How about At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill?

I've read The God of Small Things. Let's see ... how about that old saw, Lord of the Flies? My daughter is currently reading it for her 9th grade English class. I think that's about when I read it, as well!

... I don't even know where to start on my comments of it. It kind of felt like a mixture of The Old Man and the Sea and Lord of the Flies with religion thrown in to boot. I enjoyed the beginning a lot, learning about Pi's backgroud. I'm a Christian, and I've studied Islam in school, but I ...

... Shriver American Psycho, by Bret Ellis The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Giver by Lois Lowry Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Perfume by Patrick Suskind The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Running ...

... my sophomore year of college in French class. Not only did I get to read this great book twice, but in two languages :D Lord of the Flies is up there, too, as well as Heart of Darkness - another one I read in both HS and college (though both times in English).

... comfortable sharing). That topic should make for a lively discussion. My favourite book assigned to read was probably Lord of the Flies in grade nine, but I absolutely hated the analysis. The best for actually dissecting in class was probably Romeo and Juliet or To Kill A Mockingbird ...

29. Lord of the Flies--William Golding

... list. {#} is from the 2006 removed list. |#| is from the Norwegian ed list. 1. {2} Saturday by Ian McEwan 2. (508) Lord of the Flies by William Golding 3. (600) For whom the Bell tolls by Ernest Hemingway 4. (711) The Trial by Franz Kafka 5. (893) Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Bee ...

... away. A friend loaned me Uglies, which I finished and really enjoyed. Next up I might pick up the obvious Pretties or Lord of the Flies, which I somehow never managed to read all through high school or my English degree.

... it if links could open up in a new page instead of opening up in the same browser window. For instance, if I'm checking out Lord of the Flies page on LT and then want to read reviews on Amazon, if I click on the Amazon link, it opens up in my current browser. I like to check out the book at a ...

... of couple months I think I would be permanently depressed about the human race. Of the ones you reviewed, I have read Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, 1984 andFahrenheit 451, but that was spread out over a couple years. I've also read We and since you haven't tackled that one yet, ...

On a side note, you might look into Alex Garland's The Beach. I actually read it before Lord of the Flies, and went back to Golding's book because my students told me that Garland's work reminded them of Golding, but that they liked Garland better (well most of them, anyway). I barely got ...

... story went on, I became more involved, and more angry, and just -- angry. As I told a friend last night, it's a bit like Lord of the flies, a book that you read because its ideas are important, not because you love the story and characters or ENJOY the reading. Of course I liked some of the ...

... Frank Norris One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey White Noise Don DeLillo Barfly by Charles Bukowski Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Book #6 - (unread) Lord of the flies; a novel by William Golding

Lord of the Flies freaked me a lot too, even as an adult going back for a re-read thinking "it couldn't have been that bad" but getting the heebie-jeebies all over again...

... keen on my choice of picking this...trust me, it was a lot more interesting than the books she was assigning to class... The Lord of the Flies...read this in one sitting while riding home on the bus one day...freaked the heck outta me...found it really depressing and wished I never read it... ...

Pretty certain that's The Lord of the Flies so how about "The House was named 'The Cave'."

2007, I picked 150 books to read. However, the last Harry Potter book completely ruined things for me and I had to desire to pick up another book until recently. I got around 50, if I was lucky (see http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=6899). So, I'm not going to bite off more than I ...

... I think besides the short stories I'd have to point to the novella RUNNING WILD as a big favorite. It's like an updated LORD OF THE FLIES. Tight, concise, brilliant. And I also have fond memories of UNLIMITED DREAM COMPANY, it was a 'warmer" Ballard offering (if there's such a thing). ...

... owd Bleak House The Prince - Machiavelli, not Harry Potter as the touchstone says. Portrait of a Lady Catch-22 Lord of the Flies Middlemarch We'll see. ETA: And, oh yeah, I am currently torturing myself with Proust.

... Incredible Journey was read to me in school. The fact that she was (is?) Canadian also is a reason. I thoroughly enjoyed Lord of the Flies in grade 10 English and thought I would give it another go.

... this year and wondered if anyone else has some on their mental TBR list. I'm thinking of: Jane Eyre Emma Lord of the Flies and The Incredible Journey

I finished Lord of the Flies today and credited it to the 1001 group. Two books down!

I've just left a desolate island in Lord of the Flies and am off to the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts via Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld.

I finished Lord of the Flies. A great read, long overdue. Next up is Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld.

I just finished The Camel Bookmobile and am a few chapters into Lord of the Flies. I'm enjoying it immensely--and can't believe I didn't read it sooner.

... Nabokov (6/10) 3. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut (9/10) 4. Animal Farm by George Orwell 5. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (8/10) 7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 8. Catch-22 by Jos ...

... READ 10/27 1001 Books to Read Before You Die 1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (new translation) 2. Lord of the Flies by William Golding READ 3. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink READ 12/08 4. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan READ 12/08 Great (and ...

Some 9th graders read Lord of the Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye if you plan to teach English to that grade.

Lord of the Flies William Golding I read this in grade 10, way back in the late ‘70s. I remembered it quite well, and remember liking it. This time around, not so much. Did Golding write this to refute Rousseau’s utopian dream of the noble savage, and the idea that that corruption ...

... my thoughts. Here are the books: Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler Bend Sinister, by Vladimir Nabokov Lord of the Flies, by William Golding And, Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm, and Nineteen Eighty-four, all by George Orwell. Homage to Catalonia is Orwell†...

I know others have mentioned it but lord of the flies. Disturbing book, great argument for the idead of inheritant evil in humankind. Every time I see "Kid Nation" commercials I think of this book.

... then the protagonist suffers some more Der Sandmann - and goes crazy. (I do like this one) Effi Briest - and dies. Lord of the flies - This was the time when all the terrible endings really got on my nerves, and also someone should have told the author that you can't make fire with ...

... now, here's what we've read in chronological order, (mostly anyway): Julius Caesar The Oedipus Cycle The Odyssey Lord of the Flies The Canterbury Tales The Decameron (parts of) Jane Eyre Walden (parts of) Secret Life of Bees Lovely Bones The Curious Incident of the ...

... reads, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Unconsoled - bizzare!! but sort of 'good bizarre', (i.e. wacky & zany). Lord of the Flies on the other hand was just revolting. Even 25 years on I'm having nightmares :P

... tropical island . . . too bad I happened to be there at the same time as the rotten school boys from William Golding's The Lord of the Flies. Poor Simon! Poor Piggy! The Handmaid's Tale was actually a nice break. At least I was with an intelligent woman (instead of all those nasty male ...

October '07 63. Bend Sinister, by Vladimir Nabokov 64. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding 65. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury 66. Mosquito, by Roma Tearne

Geek Love, The Collector, Perfume and Lord of the Flies are for sure up there on the disturbing shelf, but I enjoyed them all. Geek Love is a favorite, although I alternate between throwing it against the wall and hugging it close. The movie version of The Collector is ...

... the few books I could feel inside my entire body as my eyes read the words. does that make any sense? I remember reading Lord of the Flies at a young enough age to be totally naive and arguing in disbelief with the book: that so could not happen! But after reading it, I was very wary of the ...

... two sticks together for fire (and the person was wearing glasses) I thought "Good God!!! Didn't they at least make you read Lord of the Flies in freshman English?"

#15 - I really dug Lord of the Flies precisely because of its overt masculinity. As a tomboy, I found it incredibly engaging.

Around 12 or 13, I remember being troubled by Lord of the Flies, thinking about it for weeks after finishing it... and The Exorcist gave me nightmares, probably helped by reading it by flashlight under the covers so my parents wouldn't know (thought I was so mature... then I wanted my mommy!)

... book contains a lot of "oh, my (insert deity who may or may not exist) listen to this.." Wasn't shocked by Haunted, Lord of the Fliesor 1984. Probably because I poured over my mom's medical texts when I was little and was just fascinated by pictures of compound fractures and abnormal ...

... Tale and In Cold Blood. I haven't read The Wasp Factory but lots of people tell me it's flippin creepy. Can I add Lord of the Flies, just because for a long time after reading it I couldn't look at mischievous boys in the same light? (Touchstone trouble, sorry about that)

... I'm studying Dystopic fiction, so in the next month I will compare some of 1984, Darkness at Noon, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Bend Sinister, Fahrenheit 451, The Trial, We, The Handmaid's Tale and/or Brave New World.

... as I've grown older, I find it gets tedious. I like LotR too, but I need to take it in small doses. I recently reread Lord of the Flies, which I'd read back in high school in 1970s and really enjoyed. A teacher friend of mine told me that the girls in her class always hated it because they ...

... and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling 41. The Chosen - Chaim Potok 42. The Inimitable Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse 43. Lord of the Flies - William Golding 44. Dry: A Memoir - Augusten Burroughs 45. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards 46. And Then There Were None - Agatha Chris ...

I am still reading Specials by Scott Westerfeld. It's taking so long because I'm also teaching Lord of the Flies to my freshmen and Into the Wild to my juniors. Have a good reading week all!

... I'm reading a Nabakov that is not on the 1001 list. It's very odd. But in the next week or so I'll reread Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies for a class that I'm taking, and then George Orwell's 1984, which I've never read. (I feel like I'm the only person who has never read 1984.)

... and undergrad careers... Among the books I have read from that list so far (and were disappointed with) include: Lord of the Flies - hated the writing style... felt completely emotionally detatched from it The Catcher in the Rye - didn't like the main character at all. Had such ...

... by Margaret Atwood The Children of Men by P.D. James (I still haven't seen the movie, so its all new to me) Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. Kallocain by Karin Boye ...

... - Domatophobia (houses) Accidental Tourist - Dystychiphobia (accidents) Snow Falling on Cedars - Chionophobia (snow) Lord of the Flies - Insectophobia (insects)

... to find not one, not two, not three, but FOUR books waiting in my mailbox for me!: Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Lord of the Flies by William Golding Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella, and Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupery I love BookMooc ...

... it very boring. no one talks like that. also, great expectations i have started twice and couldnt pull through. Lord of the flies was dumb too.

... Carol, Around the World in 80 Days, The Picture of Dorain Gray, The Turn of the Screw, Siddhartha, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Candide and the two Alice books. Hope that helps. Looking forward to hearing other people's suggestions.

For me it was The Lord of the Flies. A very powerful but to me very disturbing novel. I'm glad* that I've read it as the writing and ideas were very powerful. However it's not a novel I would have any enjoyment in re-reading. (And usually I DO re-read a few years later any book that I got ...

... on killing sprees. Edit: Oh, and I LIKED the following books: Catcher In The Rye - seriously saved me in HS 1984 Lord of the Flies The Old Man and The Sea Of Mice and Men - still makes me cry I just graduated from college, so I recall all these books very well. I think I ...

... it wasn't assigned or 2) I was a knucklehead and got the Cliffs Notes. So that's what I've been doing. I just finished Lord Of The Flies. Meh...not so much. Anybody else? Now I'm working on Watership Down and enjoying it but just started.

... y The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden Master of Souls : a mystery of ancient Ireland by Peter Tremayne Lord of the Flies by William Golding Mary, Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser

One that immediately stood out was Lord of the Flies: a novel by William Golding. It gave me the absolute creeps in school so I won't be re-reading it :)

... it... I liked it, although I haven't read it for a long time. A lot of people don't like Golding, though. If you hated Lord of the flies or Rites of Passage, you'll probably hate this too. It's a very obsessive study of obsession, all about a medieval cleric (abbot, dean? -- I don't have ...

... and this book was torture. The writing was bad and the story was awful to my 17 year old mind. I also had to read The lord of the flies and really loved it - Ilove the scene where beezlabub is talking to Simon - still sends shivers - havent read that book since 9th grade. I also ...

... Tournier. It actually comes in two versions: there is also a children's book Friday and Robinson. I never liked the Lord of the flies by William Golding. We had to read it at school and I detested it. But it definitely belongs to the category of deserted island novels. ;) Maybe I ...

I feel petty, but it always cheers me to see people loathe A Separate Peace. I didn't like Lord of the Flies, but I can why people would feel it's a good candidate for a high school course. You can certainly use it to start some classroom discussions. I didn't see it mentioned, but I ...

I've read and reviewed Lord of the flies: and finally got around to mentioning it here. Mary, thanks for your review on Player, I'll probably skip that, but I ought to read some of his work, sounds good. I'll choose Gorillas in the Mist for you this time - totally different, but ...

... a Dick Francis double bill and am now onto my assigned reading - Lord of the Flies which is a change in pace and genre!

... all of Dostoevsky's work and all of Jane Austen's work. I've read: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Flies, 1984, Cry, the Beloved Country, The Little Prince, Their Eyes were Watching God, The Hobbit, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Crime and Punishm ...

... - Harper Lee Les Miserables - Victor Hugo A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Lord of the Flies - William Golding Again, I totally understand if you don't want to go the route of the thriller novel, but if you're looking for a book that will keep ...

Oh this is too funny. My third and fourth most popular books I don't have NON-fiction are The Lord of the Flies and The Complete works of William Shakespeare, ( with Harry Potter in spots one and two ). The fifth yummy suggestion, Strunk's Elements of Style is non fiction though.

Finished The Cement Garden, as disturbing as I remembered it being, comparisons to Lord of the Flies are apt. Now reading Time's Arrow by Martin Amis.

The only books I've been interested in from my English class are A Prayer for Owen Meany, Lord of the Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451, and Les Miserables. There have been others that I could tolerate, but those have been the only books that I truly enjoyed.

... End by E.M. Forster 28. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin 29. The Quiet American by Graham Greene 30. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 31. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell 32. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 33. The Secret Agent by Joseph Co ...

Every time I read a review like yours of Lord of the Flies I wonder if the copy I tried to read a couple years ago was severely bowdlerized, or just plain misprinted somehow. I found it often incomprehensible, as if it needed extensive editing, and damn near unreadable. (Just for context, I ...

... own in the streets today, with no caring parental role models, and I can see in them the characters from Ender's Game and Lord of the Flies. Gossamer is only the second Lowry book I've read. I 'discovered' her only a few months ago (on LT of course) and I'll definitely be reading more from ...

... young, but that's he's intellectually superior - way above the average child his age. That's a good comparison, with Lord of the Flies. I guess I'll have to re-read it now. Ender's Game is just amazing. (I'm taking a break from knitting today) ;-) I truly love LT - I've read so ...

... slowed down a little in the last couple of books but were still interesting reads. Ender's Game reminded me a little of Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Both books I had to keep reminding myself that these characters were young children. It's amazing to think what children could ...

21. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (F) 22. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam (F) 23. The Farewell Chronicles by Anneli S. Rufus (NF) 24. Wicked Ties by Shayla Black (F) 25. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (F) 26. The List: A Novel by Tara ...

... Kadefors 2. En komikers uppväxt - 39 (37) - Jonas Gardell 3. Vinterviken - 37 (3) - Mats Wahl 4. Flugornas herre - 36 (4900) - William Golding 5. I taket lyser stjärnorna - 32 (3) - Johanna Thydell 6. Ondskan - 31 (25) - Jan Guillou 7. Mina ...

... ystique Understanding Media Catcher in the Rye To Kill a Mockingbird Jonathan Livingston Seagull Love Story Lord of the Flies Except for To Kill a Mockingbird, I can't say that any of them remained very important to me. I also recall Rachel Carson's Silent Spring ...

... in a Strange Land x Catch-22 x Johnathan Livingston Seagull x Love Story A Confederate General from Big Sur Lord of the Flies x Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me x The Martian Chronicles x Divine Right's Trip I was wondering how many of you have read which ...

... house by N. Scott Momaday Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach Living with the animals ed. by Gary Indiana Lord of the flies by William Golding The Maltese falcon by Dashiell Hammett Mama black widow by Iceberg Slim The naked ape by Desmond Morris The octopus by Frank ...

Lord of the Flies is alright until you get to the last line. that line positively kills it. i mean - c'mon "wept for the loss of innocence" ?????*i hope i remembered that correctly*. he's a pre-teen for heaven's sake. don't like austen or the brontes (they are equally bad), dickens muchly ...

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