The Butterfly Revolution
by William Butler
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Welcome to High Pines Summer Camp for Boys. There is hiking, swimming, canoeing--and a revolution led by General Frank. He promises change for the better, but little by little, he begins to change, and the revolution turns into a nightmare....Tags
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This was a clear cut "3 star" book until the last 80 pages or so, and then it was so good I just couldn't (well, didn't want to) put it down.
It is the story of a group of boys at camp, who decide that they do not want to be told what to do anymore. Very Lord of the Flies-esque....but I think this one might even be better?
The narrator is Win, a book nerd (woo!) who is reading about the political philosophies of Thorough, Mill, Jefferson...and Marx, which gets him labeled as a communist.
Really good book. I was not expecting the ending.
It is the story of a group of boys at camp, who decide that they do not want to be told what to do anymore. Very Lord of the Flies-esque....but I think this one might even be better?
The narrator is Win, a book nerd (woo!) who is reading about the political philosophies of Thorough, Mill, Jefferson...and Marx, which gets him labeled as a communist.
Really good book. I was not expecting the ending.
This was a clear cut "3 star" book until the last 80 pages or so, and then it was so good I just couldn't (well, didn't want to) put it down.
It is the story of a group of boys at camp, who decide that they do not want to be told what to do anymore. Very Lord of the Flies-esque....but I think this one might even be better?
The narrator is Win, a book nerd (woo!) who is reading about the political philosophies of Thorough, Mill, Jefferson...and Marx, which gets him labeled as a communist.
Really good book. I was not expecting the ending.
It is the story of a group of boys at camp, who decide that they do not want to be told what to do anymore. Very Lord of the Flies-esque....but I think this one might even be better?
The narrator is Win, a book nerd (woo!) who is reading about the political philosophies of Thorough, Mill, Jefferson...and Marx, which gets him labeled as a communist.
Really good book. I was not expecting the ending.
A gripping novel, reminiscent of "Lord of the Flies", about a revolution at High Pines Summer Camp for Boys, told through the diary entries of Winston Weyn, "despised bookworm, hater of the fuhrer principle". The book got little attention compared to William Golding's, but this is nearly the equal of that much more famous work.
One of the best reads of my teenage years.
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Butterfly Revolution
- Original title
- The Butterfly Revolution
- Original publication date
- 1961
- People/Characters
- Winston Weyn
- Important places
- High Pines Summer Camp
- Related movies
- Summer Camp Nightmare PG-13 1987 ‧ Horror/Drama ‧ 1h 30m
- Epigraph
- The stunning novel of the young and evil that ranks with the Lord of the Flies.
- Dedication
- To Doctor Harold Winkler
- First words
- I am not going to write much because I am very tired.
- Quotations
- But George Meridel and I hate each other now. We both know it.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)So it seems I can't just study and figure out all the things I want to know, and that there are some problems people are supposed just to struggle with, just struggle with until thew struggling itself works its way into some kind of answer, Just struggle.
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Teen, General Fiction, Tween, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ4 .B9855 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 196
- Popularity
- 167,503
- Reviews
- 5
- Rating
- (3.72)
- Languages
- English, Hungarian
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 12
- ASINs
- 4
