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Title: When the Pig Head Talks, You Listen
Review: Several times during my childhood, I was left unsupervised with a group of boys in a swampy woodland for days. We ended up eating snakes, toads, insects and anything we could steal or terrorize from boys scout and National Guardsmen on training exercises. We also disintegrated into tribal savages like Golding describes in the Lord of the Flies. Between these interludes in the woods with the boy savages, I read this book (around age 10) and found it jibed with my reality. The words of the Lord of the Flies struck deep into me, for I knew that darkness well. Some believe the book overladen with "humans are evil" symbolism. Well, they are, and boys do revert to the lowest common denominator in the jungle, despite their best intentions.
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