Lord of the Flies

Lord of Flies was a book I read as required reading for a high school English class. I had seen the movie and thought it was interesting but I liked the book better. Isn't that how most books that become movies are, the movie is ok but the book is better.

Lord of the Flies is a 1954 dystopian novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. Its stances on the already controversial subjects of human nature and individual welfare versus the common good earned it position 68 on the American Library Association’s list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990–1999.[2] The novel is a reaction to the youth novel The Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne.

Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding’s first novel. Although it was not a great success at the time—selling fewer than 3,000 copies in the United States during 1955 before going out of print—it soon went on to become a best-seller, and by the early 1960s was required reading in many schools and colleges.[citation needed] It has been adapted to film twice in English, in 1963 by Peter Brook and 1990 by Harry Hook, and once in Filipino (1976).

In 2005 the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. It was awarded a place on both lists of Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 41 on the editor's list, and 25 on the reader's list. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 70 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.

I enjoyed reading that book. When the kid Piggy is killed by a rock that is the most shocking part of that book. The other tribe killed him because they wanted his eyeglasses to use to start fires. I remember when we talked about him being killed most of the class was shocked and appalled, they did not understand survival of the fittest.

If you have not read this book I suggest that you do.

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