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ITT: Overrated books
I understand the praise for LotF, but it's maybe the most tedious book I've ever read. The first two thirds of the book are spent building up to a completely flat and anticlimactic climax, and Golding spends pages upon pages providing us with badly written, irrelevant details. I don't really feel like anything has any sort of weight to it, I didn't care who died and who didn't.
This book has a total of two decent chapters, A View To A Death and Castle Rock.
I like it's allegorical content and I get what Golding had to say, but this was a pretty bad way of saying it.
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>>9213437
It's a literal YA novel, we read it in 9th grade
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>>9213456
I know it is, but it's still considered a masterpiece for some reason
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Eh the main thing I like about LoTF is just the atmosphere of it
As an allegory I think it is a little bizarre mainly because of the ending
Why did Golding really decide for them to just randomly get saved?
Was it just to show that everything they did was pointless and that they should feel ashamed?
Or was it maybe just because having all the kids die was just a little too dark for a book intended for younger people even though that's obviously the more realistic scenario
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