bamy reviewed Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century; Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. …
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2 stars
I feel it’s written in a boring way, I didn’t care about any of the characters and I didn’t learn anything about them aside from them being generic archetypes. While it could be argued that the blatant racism in the book was a way to subvert the ideas of British racial superiority that was prevalent when the book was published, there are still many undertones of racism.
Perhaps the concept of the book was original in the 50s? The book got slightly more interesting near the end.