where have you buried your best days?

[smilebackwards]

Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Intense depiction of the failures of a group project (survival on deserted island). Shocked to discover this does not actually have cannibalism, although there is the strong implication that there would have been cannibalism if the events of the last chapter went differently.

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky. A Russian man meets a woman waiting for her fiance to return after a year. I wanted to like this more but I just found it so rambling and repetitive.

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein. A man raised on Mars returns to Earth and tries to understand it. I found the disconnects between Mike and humanity compelling and this did have some things to say about religion and society but it is really obviously written by a dude in the 60s and it's very sexist and explicitly homophobic.

I need to go read some more books written by women now.

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[chocolatefrogs]

Never heard of those. But know to skip Stranger in a Strange Land now. :)

Enjoy!

[smilebackwards]

I was really interested in the Martian vs Earth cultural collision but then somewhere in the 300s it really one-two punched me and took a weird turn! Oh well, on to the next book :)