Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Lord of the Flies, by William Golding

20 reviews

laindarko2's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Murder, Animal death, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body shaming, Death, Bullying, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Racism and Injury/injury detail

_a_r_u_'s review

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.25

I read this in one evening and oh boy. Its not bad, by any means. It’s a classic for something. But the characters, their actions and the implied message of the author haven’t aged well. At all. I hated all of the characters (except one) for the entirety of the book, and the only moment I was finally able to empathize with one its not because they have changed their ways and had a remarkable development, rather because they were in a situation of extreme danger and stress. The descriptions were ok, the plot is genuinely interesting  and it could’ve been so good if the characters and the message were different. 
The “only white english culture is the way of civilized men” message was… definitely something… the absolute BLATANT fatphobia was also something… like, at least give the kid an actual name instead of a degrading nickname name…
Again, this could’ve been good (it’s a good book! It’s enjoyable!) but it aged so poorly and has so many terrible decisions that I can’t see it having much more repercussion in the future…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Gore, Cultural appropriation, Death, Fatphobia, Child death, Xenophobia, and Animal death

Minor: War, Misogyny, Homophobia, and Torture

izzy_gs's review

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Bullying, Child death, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and War

Minor: Racism and Colonisation

jonathan14's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Child death, Violence, and Injury/injury detail

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Racial slurs

raveries's review

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This is a brilliant book and a brutal deconstruction of the 'nice English kids are stranded on an island and have a jolly good time' trope popular in the first half of the 20th century. I hated it and would thoroughly recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Child death, Fatphobia, Murder, Animal death, Child abuse, Classism, Death, and Racism

Minor: War, Racism, and Cultural appropriation

kathigusi's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

• 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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Racism, Racial slurs, Fatphobia, and Bullying

ffrank's review

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Murder, Fatphobia, Violence, Torture, and Racism

emilyelysian's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/injury detail, and Racism

laine37's review

dark reflective tense

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, and Violence

Minor: Racism

fridaerika's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

In general, I did like this book, though the writing somehow managed to explain some things way too much and some things way too little. The story got a little lost in the writing style, imo. 

Spoiler

The ending was also wierd, I would have not wanted them to be saved, and had even more exploration of the main theme. Or I would have liked a bit more exploration of the copntrast that had formed between the "wild" kids and the people that came and saved them. I thought the ending was a cut a little short.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Injury/injury detail, and Child abuse

Minor: Racism