Lio by Mark Tatulli for September 22, 2013

Say wha’?!?

beat me to it… i recognized it right away… i’m afraid to think what the organized sports are going to be.

Lord of the Flies meets Lio. I expect Lio to be the final survivor.P.S. I did not enjoy mandatory sports, because I am and was so bad at sports; and some were rough at my all-boys school back in the day (I have especially un-fond memories of boxing)….

I am rather mystified! I am an Indian, an MA in English Literature. I found all those books you mention to be very good. Of course – some of the good books make you uncomfortable. However, isn’t it better to have some reaction than to forget a book the minute after you put it down? One thing though – I do agree ‘Catcher’ was not all that it is made up to be… A bit irritating, even.

This does not bode well for our hapless hero.

“kill the pig! kill the pig”

The Guardian’s article on Golding’s private papers:

“Golding’s papers also described how he had experimented, while a teacher at a public school, with setting boys against one another in the manner of Lord of the Flies, which tells the story of young air crash survivors on a desert island during a nuclear war.

The author’s psychological experiments with his classes at Bishop Wordsworth’s school, in Salisbury, caused his eyes “to come out like organ stops”, according to his private journal.……..He divided pupils into gangs, with one attacking a prehistoric camp and the other defending it.

In the process, Simon, Ralph, Piggy and the other characters in Lord of the Flies may have been born."

My buddy Jim

Lord of the Flies was written partly as a “Take That:” to such books as “The Coral Island”, in which a bunch of British schoolboys are stranded on an island and maintain proper society just fine, thank you.

One of Robert A. Heinlein’s juveniles was written specifically as a reaction to Lord of the Flies, forget the title, but it has properly-trained kids being stranded and doing just fine.

And above the entrance were the words, “Abandon all hope ye who enter”.

I wonder what it is?

Gee, I loved TCitR as a teen and didn’t mind having to read it twice. And a fellow student said, “Isn’t it the greatest book you’ve ever read?” Must be a matter of attitude.

I read Candy in one sitting during after school detention by staying an extra 10 minutes.

In my school years, an awful lot of bullying went on in the gym, while the coach hid behind his newspaper.

For the benefit of Mr. KiteThere will be a show tonightOn trampolineThe Hendersons will all be thereLate of Pablo Fanque’s fairWhat a scene!Over men and horses, hoops and gartersLastly through a HOGSHEAD of real fireIn this way Mr. K. will challenge the world!

Kill the pig! Slit her throat! Bash her in!

Talking about censoring the title of The N-word of the Narcissus—note the censoring of Baslim the Cripple’s name.

Fellow CitR haters, come & sit by me! But I did like Lord of the Flies.

You might want to try Brunner’s “Stand On Zanzibar.” It took me a few tries to get into it, then I couldn’t put it down.

Actually, I liked both of your first two. TSL took a little bit of time to get into, but once I figured out what was going on, the first disabled student in his town to be mainstreamed developed quite an emotional bond with it.

Pretty sure I had the same gym tracher…

Great hand drawing! The way he’s holding the paper is stellar!