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dnietoperafan's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Minor: Bullying, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Abandonment
rowy148's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Fatphobia, Murder, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Mental illness
Minor: Abandonment and War
mattyvreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Then, recently, I was looking through a list of classic books and I thought “why not?”
It is so understandable to me that this is a classic. It’s horrifyingly compelling and perfectly paced. The characters are memorable, and the philosophical discussion of human nature is just as mystifying today.
That debate is: in a perfect vacuum, or let’s say… an early 1950s deserted island suddenly infested with immature and uncooperative schoolboys — are people essentially good, or essentially bad, or essentially both? I bet Hobbes and Rousseau are getting all jazzed up in Heaven, just reading this damned review.
The book itself is incredibly well-written. The story builds to it’s climax in such a profound and unsettling way, as you see their humanity chip away and their animalistic urges take over. Golding prays on the reader’s imagination and paranoia. We see the boys suffer the same fate — they become pray to their own delusions and fear, and for some, it is the death of them. It’s a story of children, in over their heads, thinking (or forcing themselves to think in order to survive) that they have it all figured out. Suddenly living to survive turns into a new way of life, and eventually, living to kill.
Damn, I gotta quit while I’m ahead. That was good.
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Mental illness, and Blood
bluelizzz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, and Blood
Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Mental illness, Torture, Vomit, Stalking, and War
the_embodiment_of_chaos's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Mental illness
agatha_hopkins's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Murder
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Body shaming, Confinement, Vomit, and War
postit's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
thehawksflight's review against another edition
I choose to believe in the essential good of humans, even very young ones, with a tendency toward collaboration and altruism during calamity. William Golding clearly thought otherwise.
The trope(s) have been copied, parodied, interpreted so much over the years that I found the book itself hard to enjoy in its own right.
Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Xenophobia, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, and Classism
lotus440's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, and Murder
sandy_21's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Violence, Blood, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, and Mental illness