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Title: "Flies" is a mean and flawed book
Review: Golding proceeds from the flawed premise that human beings, if left to themselves, will revert to their animal natures. Obviously it's flawed because otherwise we would never have achieved civilization in the first place. Besides the general degredation of humankind that Golding appears to relish, the book also fails because of its silly, deus-ex-machina ending. In short, about the best thing that one can say about this book is that it's widely read; but then again, so was the Little Red Book.
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