..love_like_winter.. wrote:
i really loved this book!
i thought it was so interesting!
It was a nice break, because lately I've been reading all these super serious books..
So all in all, I really liked it =)
Heh, super serious. I don't think I would classify LotF as a light fairytale you'd read before you go to bed either. Actually I tried that once and had some interesting dreams.
Spoilers may follow.
It wasn't terribly unpleasant, but neither did it present anything surprising. I think that's exactly what would happen, if you strand a group of humans on the same island. Sure, it might not happen within a few weeks. But eventually SOMEONE will go mad, and events will detoriorate from there. Golding did very well with this book's writing style, especially the descriptions of the island. I only wish he'd done something more original with their rescue. A ship suddenly landing and saving Ralph was so cliche that I dismissed the notion as soon as I thought of it, especially since I was expecting an ending as chilling as the rest of the book. But perhaps that's the way Golding intended... the book's middle to be nightmarishly surreal and the ending to be a slap from the "outside world."