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[Anonymous No.6880563]

What are your thoughts on this book?

[Anonymous No.6880574]

It's really good even though it's fundamentally a heavy-handed political allegory. The prose redeems it.

[Anonymous No.6880577]

Good, but widely misunderstood.

[Anonymous No.6880598]

>>6880574
whats the stance in the book relating to the
>political allegory

[Anonymous No.6880620]

>>6880577
Elaborate?

[Anonymous No.6880627]

>>6880598
Think of the ending as the rude awakening of the feverish nightmare of fascism ("hunter" ideology, neo-primitivism disguised as civilization). The boys didn't have to give in to savagery because of fear (Jack's chest-beating, rule-breaking, and hunting are all short-term securities against this fear). Before the adults show up, their descent makes sense in the ideological choice that only the present time matters and all ethical choices are short-term considerations, but once the first adult shows up that kind of thinking (non-thinking) is shattered, and all that's left is the reality of what they did to each other.

[Anonymous No.6880645]

it's fascist allegory

[Anonymous No.6880647]

>>6880563
who will save the adults?

[Anonymous No.6880652]

>>6880620
People commonly interpret it as "man becoming a beast to man" once all authority is removed. It's actually the opposite: things go reasonably well until a leader is appointed, and then things all go to shit.

[Anonymous No.6880664]

>>6880627
Thank you!
reminds me of something another anon here said that I saved
> postmodernism is in a sense all about contentment, a false truce that smothers the mind in soft oblivion. When modernism brought forth great, clean abstractions with the power to change the world, to push great revolutions, it manifested unsettling possibilities. Fascism was anything but comfortable. Postmodernism, on the other hand, with its self clouding epicycles of thought, its abstractions which abstract away the possibility of meaning, appears safer. But it is an ideology of control, a tool for keeping the intellectual enemies of the existing global order safely self contained in their voluntarily padded cells as real history advances unquestioned.

and now we're on to new sincerity :^)

[Anonymous No.6880672]

I think it's pretty wizard

[Anonymous No.6881346]

GOAT..scared me as a kid though

[Anonymous No.6881366]

write your fucking highschool english class essay on your own

[Anonymous No.6881368]

>lurking on a book seller website and reading comments for random books for fun
>check lord of the flies
>a book that tells us children are sometimes more cruel than adults. people of all ages should read. -a woman that bought the book (translated the comment myself)
>mfw