I feel like people have been telling me to eat pizza my whole life. I ignored their requests and blindly ate other food. Year after year people would say "why don't you try the pizza?" or "how can you not even want to try it?". Then, suddenly, one day I tried pizza and it was amazing. It lived up to expectations and I finally understood what everyone was talking about. My life changed and I was suddenly exposed to a piece of food that I couldn't understand how I ever lived without.

That is how I felt while reading Lord of the Flies.

This book is a classic, and for all the right reasons. It has incredible depth with beautiful metaphors, it examines society as a whole; any praise I could give this book has been said before, and probably in a more elegant fashion. There were elements from this book that I recognized only because I saw it repeated in other mediums so it was refreshing to get to the source of that inspiration.

I knew the basic concept of the book but the details of the events or how the society is formed and challenged were all knew and it made for an incredible experience. This was a very raw and brutal read and I was hooked. I didn't expect the level of barbarism that took place and if people are outraged over how violent The Hunger Games is I bet this book caused quite a stir in the 50's.

I liked everything about this book and I see myself reading again in the future.