Jason Robinson 🐍 🍻 🚴Jun 21

Lord of the flies (1954)

A brutal look from author William Golding on what might happen if a plane filled with boys, evacuated from some war torn area and shot down, aging from "little ones" to teens crashlanded on a remote uninhabited island with no adults surviving. An intial attempt at order quickly descends into brutality, which is kids basically. Should anyone with a history of being bullied be reading this? Still, a good book in any case.

Somehow I've managed to miss this. I noticed the comic adaptation at my library and wanted to read it, but of course had to first read the original, because reading a comic made of a book before reading the book is a bit like watching a TV adaption before reading the book, basically wrong.

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27097619M/Lord_of_the_Flies

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Show threadD Whatson
@jaywink I recommend following it with 'Humankind' by Rutger Bergman to balance things out a little.
Jun 21 at 12:54amMastodon for Android
Show threadJason Robinson 🐍 🍻 🚴Jun 21
@[email protected] I'll check it out, seems to be available in my local library. Though I find hope to be a terrible driver, largely more negative than positive. Hope is the death of action, to me.