So I just finished reading Lord of the Flies...

[DarthParrot]

I was reading it for my Lit class, and I must say it's a very strange book, very graphic in some parts too.


WARNING: the following may spoil the book if you haven't read it.

Spoiler:

Even though it was very strange, I acctually thought it was pretty good (a bit unrealistic in some parts though.)

I was so mad when they killed Simon though, he was my favorite character before he went insane.

[N88TR]

Try reading the original Alice in Wonderland, Hansel and Gretel, or most of the other 'fairy tales,' they're actually pretty messed up.

[darknights]

^ yeah, I saw a doc a while back talking about how a lot of the fairy tales have been made "child" friendly cause they were too out there for their age group.

for example in the spoiler below V

Spoiler:

allegedly in one version of Sleeping Beauty, beauty was raped by the prince after he found her sleeping in the tower. Also in Red Riding Hood(and for you english major nuts out-there who've dug further meaning into this story was also raped then eaten by the wolf.

[N88TR]

Yeah, the stories are quite sexually perverse.

[darknights]

^ yeah....its quite twisted after finding the "true" meaning of them, I'll never be able to read them again(not saying I'm reading at my age)....but when that day in the far future comes when I have kids of own and I'd be reading them it and that thought of their original meaning just pop in there(like most things in my life just pop back in my head when I least want it(dang!! just remembered one ....here goes the process of buring it again) I'll be punching myself in the groin repeatedly till that dirty images are gone.

[Dursk]

I think it's a disturbing book in general. I understand what it's trying to say but in the perspective of children it's horrific and borderline evil...

[nanobot_swarm]

I read that last year, I liked simon too, I thought he'd become a pyshcotic monster who would attack the others, but he didn't, *sigh*
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell was a screwed up book too, if you read it

[rebornintheglory]

Originally Posted by Saquist

I think it's a disturbing book in general. I understand what it's trying to say but in the perspective of children it's horrific and borderline evil...

Yes, I didn't enjoy it at all. Alice and Wonderland I liked a lot, though.

[DarthParrot]

It was indeed a grose book. And it may just be me, but I think that the kids in LOTF were a little bit to idiotic.

I mean, I realise that they're supposed to be young an naive. But I was a heck of a lot smarter than that when I was twelve. So the book just seems a tad bit unrealistic to me.

[Mastershroom]

I remember reading that last year...I didn't really like it at all.

Speaking of Alice In Wonderland, my high school drama club is performing that in December. I'm on the tech crew for it...we have to make it look totally trippy.