Librarians, Lord of the Flies, MAGA, and Banned Books. It's Evolution, Baby!
I'm a thief, I'm a liar/There's my church, I sing in the choir/(Hallelujah, Hallelujah)
The Lord of the Flies is not on my list of favorite books. I’ve read it several times and I appreciate the novel more than I like the novel. It’s a dystopian novel, so it scores high on my scale of interest, and it’s science fiction, which also rates it a high place. Yet I find it overwrought and I find the characters to be too stereotypical.
But that’s…
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