Lord of the Flies

Title: Lord of The Flies
Author: William Golding
Pages: 190
Yearly Count: 74
Awards: William Golding is the winner of the Nobel Prize

The allegorical novel, about a group of school boys who become society forming groups for hunting, making fire and learning to exist alone on an island. This group of school boys tries to put in place a governing system that works for them, and even those who have not read this know that a group of little boys governing themselves, fending for themselves on a solitary island will run into trouble. This is Golding's take on human nature. I don't think it is far off, as our instincts for survival do make us into beasts even in the modern world today.

I had never read Lord of the Flies, but it is one of those that I had always wondered about. I found the reading a little slow and filled with description, but it was written in the 50's and absolutely mirrors the pace of that age. I can't say I enjoyed it, or that it was fun to read, but I did see the importance of it. Golding does a great job with the writing, and one becomes involved in the survival and hopeful rescue of these little savage boys.

I could not help but think of LOST...I know I shouldn't think of TV when reading a classic, right? But it constantly reminded me of the LOST series.

It is a classic, but have you read it? There are many classics that I have not read, but this is no longer one of them. I had a good time hearing about Ralf and Jack and Piggie...boys will be boys!



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Read the Nobels

There is a lot of work for me to do on the Nobels! I am in the Read the Nobels project, so I am slowly going to work on this. Have you read these?

Here is what I have read so far:

1990- Octavio Paz
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; o, Las trampas de la fe. – Barcelona : Seix Barral, 1982

1982- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Relato de un naufrago. – Barcelona: Tusquets, 1970
Del amor y otros demonios. – Madrid: Mondadori, 1994
Memoria de mis putas tristes. – New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004
1970- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
The Nobel Lecture on Literature 1972
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1963

1968- Yasunari Kawabata
Thousand Cranes / translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. – New York : Knopf, 1959

1967- Miguel Angel Asturias
Sociologia guatemalteca : El problema social del indio., 1923
El Señor Presidente. – Mexico City : Costa-Amic, 1946
Hombres de maíz. – Buenos Aires : Losada, 1949

1907- Rudyard Kippling
Jungle Book, 1894


Will read soon:

1949- William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying. – New York : Cape & Smith, 1930
2001-Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
The Mystic Masseur. – London: Deutsch, 1957.
2000- Gao Xingjian
Soul Mountain / transl. by Mabel Lee. – HarperCollins, 1999.
1983- William Golding
Lord of the Flies-1954

* Completed books off the "will read soon" list will be ORANGE.