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“…and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days: They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days…” Exodus 10:22-23 The battle of good and evil is everlasting… and there are no winners. And at times it is hard to decide which is which. Darkness Visible is c Leggi tutto

I love Golding's view of the world. This continues where "Lord of the Flies" left off; that human nature is inherently savage. That is, the world isn't needed to corrupt a child, we all accomplish that just fine on our own. Bleak, but intriguing. This book was also clever and suspenseful, more so th Leggi tutto

It seems blasphemous to give this book anything less than five stars. It's a very important novel by a very important author, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature and is, incidentally, one of the writers I love best. But Time has a way of changing one's opinions. I've read this book four times over Leggi tutto

Weird book, course William Golding doesn't write bland literature! I am 10 pages from the end and can't figure the point of the book other than weird things happen, child molesters exist, and people can be monstrous. It's not an offensive book, and the only thing that would make it a difficult read

Three young survivors who are hideously scared from the fires they escaped from. The boy enters school and becomes the butt of to many attacks to his psyche. As he works toward his future meeting with their Mother and the two girls. Once together he discovered they have certain talents to put togeth Leggi tutto

I read this for pleasure my senior year of high school. My only notes about it in my journal from that time are "Bizarre," but I gave it a 9/10 rating.

William Golding writes difficult books. They are not only complex in prose and detail, but dissecting difficult subjects as well. Best known for Lord of the Flies, which is a pretty dark and twisted tail of children getting trapped in what is basically a social experiment, he manages to write someth Leggi tutto

One of the best starts to a novel ever.

Nobel Laureate William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is perhaps the most featured novel in literature classes in high schools and universities around the English-speaking world. Otherwise, Golding seems to be overlooked and neglected. Yet he is no one-hit-wonder. I highly recommend Pincher Martin , The Leggi tutto