The Opposite of Lord of the Flies
346288
This movie is ultimately moving, with moments of sacrifice and protection of others motivating the main characters.  Perhaps, not sophisticated enough for most American audiences, but that is their loss.
2271889
DW2 was tolerable.  I got halfway through 3 and I understood why it was called Deathwish.  I'd rather shoot myself than watch anymore.  Bookmans now owns this set.  I exchanged it for Goodwill Hunting for the three discs.  They totally got cheated.  Don't buy this set.  The Original is worth watching however.
4347382
This second excursion is less impressive than the first. Dread is hipster torture porn, before it was cool. Hell's Event has a weirdly optimistic British take on democracy in the middle of Margaret Thatchers time in office. New Murders in the Rue Morgue is a repulsively odd take on the Poe classic.
4155347
Groooaannn...

Did the people in this century know what literature is?

The story is about some kids who go to a closet/wardrobe and go into a ether boring as nothing or disturbing and disgusting place where they fight battles .Like plenty bad books I have read,somebody's/something's hair or fur is shaved...NOBODY else finds that disturbing?

Some people only see the crude parts in books like the big or Matilda or the witches but the OTHER PARTS are adventure,and well well well,the "disturbing"parts are usefull and add pizzazz to the book,and are PART of the adventure,instead of bad parts for no reason.

So,do not read the book,please! read a book by Roald Dhal for a classic and 11 Birthdays for real ish since fi.
988599
Terrible movie, very old, My class read Hatchet, this is basically the movie version, but slightly adapted.  A great tool to use to compare with the book, but not all that enthralling, my kids really liked to book so much more!  There were 2 parts in the movie where the kids swims buck naked, they show his butt above the water (why, oh why?).
517949
I personally liked 1984 better because it was more realistic, but Brave New World is far more twisted.  Instead of pleasure outlawed, sex in general is outlawed.  Babies are made in test tubes.  They come out in an assembly line.  People are educated to hate things.  Each class is educated to look down on the others.  Children are encouraged to have erotic play.  The whole society is educated to take soma, a depressant.  One man from the still-normal world of New Mexico, which is called The Savage Reservation by those of the other world because sex i how babies are formed, rebels and throws soma out the window in the face of kids.  This evil story of a world I hope never becomes true is nonetheless thrilling.
973422
i have not read the book in german, as i cannot, and i found my english translation to be unreadable altogether...critics seem to have begun hating it for the explicit references it makes to sex and drugs, the two mainstay themes (apart from money, the easy winner) of the gogo early seventies that brought us this pretentious flik, along with hordes of equally unbearable yuppies...(preceded by equally equally unbearable hippies, who also embraced the thing, as their perceived bourgeois opponents couldn't stand it) if the book is no better than the film, it is my opinion that there is little to be understood, in spite of the many meanings that have been forced upon it...the movie is provocative, but i have to regard it as a a badjazz rendition of what was never anything significantly better than a bad book.  excuse me, but hesse gets a nobel, and nabokov gets the breeze? so much for stockholm!
1646944
The best way I can find to describe this book is lord of the flies on another planet.  The characters awaken at the age of fifteen and their innocence is apparent in the writing.  Throughout the highs and lows that this colony experiences, it is very apparent of the naivety of the characters.  I couldn't put this book down, and I don't think you will be able to either.
3877778
The book's title is a ' concept'. It is the concept of the heartless louse who steps on any and everyone to get what they want.

It is possible to think that reading about such a louse would be great fun.

I found it quite disheartening and monotonous. Once I got the idea it all seemed to be simply that.

Reading about this particular louse was not such great fun.

I do not like cruelty and rudeness- and this work is pervaded by it.
94617
Plan Nine from Outer Space is considered by Cinema experts as the worst movie ever made. This certainly is its equivalent in the nonfiction(allegedly) category of literature. I hate to use the L Word(literature) in conjunction with this book as they have no real connection. When I saw the title of the book I immediately assumed it was a satire of stuff White people don't like. However, when I read reviews I realize that it was far. far, worse. The author pseudonym Paul Kersey the character from Death Wish is well-chosen as if I had to actually read this book cover to cover I would likely have a death wish myself.

I have a close friend who is a retired African-American professor who played football with me in the ancient in days of yore. For 40 years on each other's birthdays ,we send each other ridiculous racist literature or Xenophobic tomes as a joke. A contest where The loser must take the winner and his wife to the most expensive steakhouse in the County. Were talking about $400 dinners here. Then on Christmas we each write a white man's cookbook or black man's cookbook full of stereotypes and ridiculous recipes.

My friend will be hard-pressed to ever come up with anything as over-the-top racially insane as this thing is. An example the author clearly intimates that the AIDS epidemic is directly derived from African males having sex with chimps. No I'm not kidding you. Besides the general absurdity of it and the fact that the smallest champ would bite off your genitals and tear off your face just for fun, he misses entirely the likely transmission which is from eating bush-meat, or simply being bitten for AIDS. NO, blaming Africans for AID's isn't sufficient, he has to resort to inferred bestiality. Where he could apply a pinch of satire he applies a pound of malice. Imagine Joseph Goebbels trying to rewrite Huck Finn.

This book was slightly less organized than an anarchist picnic. He, she, or it, that wrote this Homeric Saga of black hatred also repeats themselves over and over again" .
The wit displayed in this book is on a level with my six-year-old grandsons" Oh look grandpa there is a dead possum by the road, let's make a sandwich". Even as a connoisseur of the truly awful, I must bow humbly before this book it truly is Plan Nine from Outer Space, in quality.
1142118
I  READ  "HOW  TO  EAT  FRIED  WORMS"  IN  7TH  GRADE.  IT  TURNED  INTO  ONE  OF  MY  FAVORITE  BOOKS.  WHEN  I  HEARD  IT  WAS  GOING  TO  BE  A  MOVIE  I  WAS  EXCITED.  I  JUST  RENTED  IT  ABOUT  A  WEEK  AGO  AND  I  HAVE  TO  SAY  THAT  IM  SLIGHTLY  DISAPPOINTED.  THE  MOVIE  WAS  ONLY  SOMEWHAT  LIKE  THE  BOOK  AND  DIDNT  REALLY  EXPLAIN  THE  MAIN  CHARACTERS  TOO  WELL.  "HOW  TO  EAT  FRIED  WORMS"  IS  RATED  PG.  I  SUGGEST  THE  PARENTAL  GUIDANCE.  THERES  SOME  CRUDE  HUMOR  AND  BULLYING  AND  IT  MAY  NOT  GO  OVER  WELL  WITH  SOME  PARENTS.  RENT  IT  BEFORE  BUYING  IT.
3699179
It is impossible to encompass Lord of the Flies into a short review. Golding just says too much on too many different levels. The book is simply brilliant. First off, Lord of the Flies is an adventure story. A few British schoolboys are deserted on an island and must depend on themselves to survive to be rescued. The story is based on an earlier British classic, The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne. The simple adventure story is used to comment on humanity. Golding, much like Joseph Condrad, shows how civilation keeps humanity from lapsing into savagery. He presents the schoolboys' loss of innocence. Lord of the Flies is also a political treatise much like Animal Farm. Ralph represents a democracy, Jack is communism, and Piggy is the voice of wisdom which both tends to ignore. He traces political troubles back to individuals.
Many people think of William Golding as too pessimistic about human nature. I do not think Golding was as pessimistic as many think. William Golding was unfortunate to see human at its worst during World War II, and I think he feared lapses. Lord of the Flies is his warning. His attempt to help man stay on the right course. Whether or not a person agrees to this and feels Golding was too cynical, it is impossible to not think of Lord of the Flies as one of the best-written books of the century. Golding encompasses so much into an simple, powerful narrative. The prose and images are beautiful even when grim. Lord of the Flies is certainly one of the great novels of literature.
4956840
Lord of the Flies is a very good book to read.  It tells about how a group of british boys learn the meaning of survival after their plane is crashed and their stranded on an Island with no parents.  It's also about how living on the island changed their lives.  The 3 main charactors are Jack, Piggy, and Ralph.  Jack is very pushy to Piggy because Piggy is fat, wears glasses, and has asthma but is friendly to Ralph.  But all that changes when Jack lets a fire go out that causes a plane that passes by not to see them, after Jack becomkes more aggressive and just cares about hunting.  Soon Jack starts his own tribe and the group slowly seperates from being with Ralph to going with Jack.  Jack's group starts doing mean things like stealing Piggy's glasses to make a fire. Anyone who reads will be interested on how Ralphs group tries to do whatever they can to resist the clutches of Jack's and Jack's group's aggressiveness goes from hurting to killing!  Any body who reads this will be very interested in the story.  GET IT.
1699489
Over half of this movie is just complaining about how life is so unfair.  (Fast forward through it, you won't miss anything.)  In place of any redeeming ending, the movies finishes leaving you hopeless.  This is the opposite of what I want to see when I go to the movies.

If you like depressing, non-entertaining, borderline feminist movies, this will rank near the top of your list.
1251180
I loved O'Neill's novel The Netherland but I did not enjoy The Dog. Set in Dubai, it has all the local colour: the long all you can eat and drink Friday lunches, the expat society, the racism, the wealth and the differences between the Dubai natives and everybody else. Yes, I know it was ironic and satirical but I hated the protagonist and I struggled to finish the novel.
814161
Ian McEwan is one of my favorite writers.  He seems to focus either on the very educated, upper-crust of British society or the tough lower classes.  This is definitely a story of the latter.  The story, in a nutshell, is: The parents of a working class family die, leaving the children to fend for themselves.  This is no Party of Five, however.  They keep the death of their mother a secret so that they do not become wards of the state.  Things deteriorate quickly.  They were already bad while the parents were still alive (incestuous play among the children).  With the parents out of the picture, the narrator - a fourteen-year-old boy - stops bathing and becomes anti-social.  His little brother decides he wants to be a girl and dresses up in girl's clothes.

This is a disturbing read.  It reminded my of some of McEwan's short fiction in First Love, Last Rites.  To give you an idea, Stephen King lists it as one of his favorite horror novels and it is listed in Horror: Another 100 Best Books.  Like Lord of the Flies, it is a spooky tale of children left to their own devices.
835173
When I began reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding, I had an open mind like I do when I begin any book, but I quickly found that I did not like it.  The theme itself was the main reason.  My teacher told my class that the theme was that left to our own devises, humans are evil.  I strongly disagree.  I am the kind of person that trusts others and believes that people are truly good, so reading a book that tells me that I am wrong just upset me.  But, even though the novel wasn't great for me, I did like some aspects of the writing.  For example, I likes that Golding kept the boys acting and thinking like kids through the story, this made it seem much more realistic.  So, if you are like me and believe in the goodness in everyone, and you don't want to read something that tells you otherwise, this probably isn't the book for you.  But, if you are okay with the theme and are looking for a realistic survival novel about young boys with an unexpected and somewhat ironic ending, this will definitely be a great read for you.