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more about #lordoftheflies more comments → WorthingtonTiamat: No one seems to have mentioned the pitting-boys-against-each-other thing yet. The whole rape incident is awful, but teachers encouraging aggression a... more » Mad May: The Guardian article is the most disturbing and strange story I've read in a long time, I couldnt understand why the girl (years later) tried to get G... more » BlakeCaba?ero: Would you later sleep with someone who had tried to rape you years earlier? Could it be possible, do you think, that professional writer of fiction, ... more » pmarble: The Guardian article says that two years later, the pair met up and had what apparently was entirely consensual sex. I think we all need to slow down... more » rednrowdy: Confessing the attempted rape to his wife years after the fact, when it's likely that no restitution could be made, seems more like a selfish unburden... more » Robyn Bahr: You guys realize there WAS a rape scene in "The Lord of the Flies" - it occurred between a dying boar, a stick, and some of the curious boys slaughter... more » Zombie Ms. Skittles: You know, I somehow managed to avoid reading this in school and I always meant to do it as I got older. I don't think I could now. more » iKniter: Well this just makes me want to read "Lord of the Flies" even more so. And I agree, it's very chilling to have the author admit in his own words that ... more » BeckySharper: He sounds like an absolutely disgusting human being. more » keldo: So the 15 year old girl, not Golding, was "depraved by nature". Curious reasoning. more » FrancisElla: Oh Little House on the Prairie. As a child, I seriously tried to convince my parents to take me on a month-long, historically accurate, covered wagon ... more » la.donna.pietra: I want to go to Wall, but time it right so that I can cross over into Faerie*. * true loves and royal parentage not included more » la.donna.pietra: I will be going on the Tony Hillerman Staycation this summer, right here in Albuquerque. more » Ipomoea: True Blood tour of Louisiana? Anita Blake tour of St. Louis? Anais Nin's Paris, in which you and your partner move to Paris, then you flirt with your ... more » stealthird: I think The Mists of Avalon would be a fun tour. Except for, you know, the incest. Also, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn . See Willamsburg before it became... more » -
#artimitateslife
Lord Of The Flies Author Admitted Attempted Underage Assault
In an admission in some ways as disturbing as his famous novel, Lord of the Flies, author William Golding wrote in an unpublished memoir that he had tried to rape a fifteen-year-old girl when he was eighteen. More » -
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Four Vacation Packages We'd Like To Take!
An article about a holiday "On the Trail of Laura Ingalls Wilder" got us thinking: what book vaycays would we like to see? More »
