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bamy

jamy@books.babb.no

Joined 10 months, 2 weeks ago

🏳️‍🌈 Originally from Cape Town 🇿🇦 but now living in Oslo 🇳🇴

I typically enjoy speculative fiction, fantasy, sci-fi and programming books 📚

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reviewed Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century; Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

William Golding: Lord of the Flies (1999, Penguin (Non-Classics))

Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. …

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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.

L'Étranger est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans …

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Camus helps to depict the machine of and our belief in society from a point of view that makes it seem completely alien. This in turn seems to be something that is created based by humans trying to find meaning in something that inherently has none.