Lord of The Flies by William Golding is on a series of paramount lists: The Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels, 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, on The Greatest Books of All Time site it is ranked 50th, and it is a chef d’oeuvre selected for my own favorites’ compilation, if you want the conclusion in a sound bite: Jack has moved into the White House, in the meantime You find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel where my macaws are the stars

 

Lord of The Flies by William Golding is on a series of paramount lists: The Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels, 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, on The Greatest Books of All Time site it is ranked 50th, and it is a chef d’oeuvre selected for my own favorites’ compilation, if you want the conclusion in a sound bite:

 

Jack has moved into the White House, in the meantime

 

You find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel where my macaws are the stars

 

 

10 out of 10

 

I was impressed by The Lord of The Flies https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/12/lord-of-flies-by-william-golding.html the first time I took it on, I even remember reading in while taking a bath – and with this, here we have the spoiler alert: you should not be reading this, not because I will say what happens, it is mayhem

 

There is another reason: these notes are not just amateurish, they are efforts to get some attention: I was more than scolded, destroyed the other day by this fellow who commented something like: ‘you wrote this looking in the mirror, you think so much of yourself…’ maybe it is so, but what about his judgement?

I mean, the readers who put these ‘reviews’ online are mostly without any merit, if they were talented, then they would be published, as it is, there are millions of titles in print, and I think that figure was just for America, nevertheless, there are so many bad books out there, you think you will find gems on Goodreads?

 

‘Chaps orientate themselves by things like 'importance ' and 'seriousness ' and 'depth' and 'originality ' and consensus, trend. They have no taste. Hence standing of Golding, Fowles, Le Carre et all…’ this is from Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-letters-of-kingsley-amis-edited-by.html

 

If I was awed by Lord of The Flies, I was not enthused by Rites of Passage https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/rites-of-passage-by-william-golding.html albeit I would not go as far as Kingsley Amis in his criticism…I think Jack has moved from the island, and fiction, and into the…White House

William Golding explains that his main theme was showing ‘what happens when there are no rules, then you do not have anything’, if at start these children that are stranded on an island think of some decorum, principles: the conch is a symbol of authority, and the one who has it has the right to speak, the others listen…

 

Later it all becomes rather chaotic: Ralph insists on the need to keep the fire for signals alight, so that they have chance to be rescued, Jack is obsessed with power and hunting, ‘kill the pig, cut his throat’ is a chant they use, alas, the need for food is topped with a thirst for blood, the hunters will not aim for animals only

‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments’ https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-sonnets-by-shakespeare-is-supposed.html I hope that critic of my reviews is not hunting down for me again, because I will repeat my ‘sound bite’: Jack has moved into The White House

Why? Well, because that Orange Beast that sits above the free world acts like an irresponsible, narcissistic, power obsessed, ignorant, fanatical, lying, the list is long teenager, bent on destroying his nemesis, insulting, breaking the law, just like Jack did when on the island: I will only mention now what he says after stealing Piggy’s glasses: ‘who will take them from me?’

 

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