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31 (86.1%)

No.

2 (5.6%)

I don't read books.

3 (8.3%)

Total Members Voted: 36

[Akura]

I don't even know what's so wrong about it, really. I've seen worse things in standard literature textbooks.

[nenjin]

Read it in Highschool. Not bad, for being in the heart of red country.

Lady Chatterly's Lover, LotF is not, though.

I always found the hallucinations the best part of the book. The morality/breakdown of society, even as a kid, I was like "well, yeah, and?" The part where it goes that far into left field is where it truly grabbed my imagination.

I imagine a current version would be over in about 4 pages.

[Itnetlolor]

Recalling the whole book, I can just think Dwarf Fortress island embark in a nutshell.

[Bouchart]

I read Lord of the Flies in high school.  My teacher practically killed the experience by over-analyzing everything though.

1984, Animal Farm and Brave New World weren't mandatory but they were suggested for one independent book report or another.  Shakespeare was abundant.

[Akura]

From a "moral" point of view, Shakespeare is much worse than anything you can pull out of Lord of the Flies. Murder, suicide, teenage sex, drugs(sorta), gangfights... all of that just in Romeo and Juliet.

[breadbocks]

Man. If you can believe it, they want to only let kids read a CENSORED version of Huckle Berry Finn. A book that's whole point was how offensive everything it. He was abused, and likely maimed, but at least he wasn't called what these days is used as a black version of "dude".
>.<

It makes no sense. NONE AT ALL.

If they do somehow get that national, I'm shoving it down my kids(Unsure of where I want that ' to be right now.) throats like my parents shoved Fahrenheit 451 down mine. Of course, F451's meaning was really obsucured by a boring plot, but at least I sorta got the message.

[Zrk2]

As if to prove the book's point, I personally would have broken Jack's nose some time around day five.  Insurrectionist asshole.

I can totally see you doing that. And for once I'd agree with you.

1984 and LotF aren't banned in Ontario, and for AP grade 12 English we read The Fountainhead. I was surprised the school board went for that.

As to the over anaylsis of every fucking sentence is insane. Apparently you aren't reading depp enough unless you can find deeper meaning in 'The cat sat on the mat.' (Which I did once, just to piss of my English teacher.) Also, when I showed him the page in the link, he didn't comment.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

Over analysis can be fun once you get the hang of it, because it just amounts to pulling insane bullshit out of mundane things in the most tenuously consistent manner.

[Bouchart]

From a "moral" point of view, Shakespeare is much worse than anything you can pull out of Lord of the Flies. Murder, suicide, teenage sex, drugs(sorta), gangfights... all of that just in Romeo and Juliet.

Yeah Shakespeare is mostly sex jokes and pointless violence.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

From a "moral" point of view, Shakespeare is much worse than anything you can pull out of Lord of the Flies. Murder, suicide, teenage sex, drugs(sorta), gangfights... all of that just in Romeo and Juliet.

Yeah Shakespeare is mostly sex jokes and pointless violence.

Which sometimes ends up getting stupidly censored out, making Shakespeare seem like a boring hack of a playwright because the sex jokes and violence are part of the appeal.

[sonerohi]

We read Lord of the Flies in class earlier this year, though I had read it some time back in 8th grade. I was the only one to grasp at the symbolism. I can't say I understood every nuance there, but the rest of the class took it as a plain island survival book, which frustrated me to no end.

[Grakelin]

I read Lord of the Flies in high school.  My teacher practically killed the experience by over-analyzing everything though.

1984, Animal Farm and Brave New World weren't mandatory but they were suggested for one independent book report or another.  Shakespeare was abundant.

When I was in High School English, I had a couple teachers who would get extremely excited about some interpretation they had derived from Victorian Era literature, and would teach and test this material on top of our curriculum. It was astoundingly frustrating having to keep informed on what was essentially an underdeveloped, unsupervised graduate student's thesis proposal.

[Duelmaster409]

It is a scary coincidence that this is posted on the same day that I just checked Lord of the Flies out. Barely on page 20.

[ChairmanPoo]

I'm a functional analphabet, so I don't really care for a book discussion board. It makes me feel discriminated against by those who can actually read and write.

[warhammer651]

I disliked this book.

Mainly because we had to write an essay on the symbolism with, quoting exactly here,"No wrong answers"


Guess who's thesis was marked wrong?