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Lord of the Flies

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Lord of the Flies

Written by: William Golding
Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
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Newly remastered with additional sound design to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Lord of the Flies.

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance.

First Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics

'The first book with hands - strong ones that reached out of the pages and seized me by the throat. It said to me, 'This is not just entertainment; it's life or death.' ... I've been thinking about it ever since, for fifty years and more.' Stephen King

'One of my favorite books - I read it every couple of years.' Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games

'A post-apocalyptic, dystopian survivor-fantasy ... [A novel] for all time ... A cult classic.' Guardian

©1954 William Golding (P)2012 Faber Audio Classics Coming of Age Genre Fiction
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While the story is steeped heavily in symbolism and is tremendously chilling.. it bears a lot of similarities with Animal Farm.. far too many similarities in fact.

Overall though it was an outstanding story - considered on its own.. all that can go wrong with societies and countries.. how civil wars start and the like.

A final word on Martin Jarvis.. I am in absolute awe of this man's reading. He makes every word every syllable stand out - every sequence is read such that the scene is vivid in front of your eyes although the words are entering your ears.

Allegorical and chilling

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This book tells a nice story of what happens when little kids are given the responsibility to build a civilisation from ground up and how horribly things can go wrong. The story is good, but given the vast premise that was set up at the beginning, I expected that a lot could have been done to show how children are building a civilisation.

Nice story, worth a read

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It was too narrative for a small story. The story itself could have completed in 5 or so pages. But the narration of every small thing, even the ones that are unimportant made it lengthy and boring.

Too narrative

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