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The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months
v12riceburner - 1mon

I always thought the book was gross and silly. I didn’t have the literary comprehension to see the writer was serious and making a statement.

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ClathrateG [none/use name] - 1mon

tbf the author wasn't making a dig at society in general it was a critique of English private school boy life and the viciousness it engenders

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Marat - 1mon

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durduramayacaklar - 1mon

libs will say this is the human nature anyway

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stink - 1mon

Had Auschwitz been an anomaly, they wanted to know, or is there a Nazi hiding in each of us?

Let's ask the writer what they think about immigration or trans people I wonder

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