8. Most overrated book.

Ah, time for the unpopular opinions, I’m afraid…

“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding.

The storyline is that a plane full of schoolboys crashes on an uninhabited tropical island and they’re “very naughty” (an understatement). Their little castaway community is basically driven to civil war after being plagued by mysterious “Beast” of the island. I know it sounds quite good, and I know a lot of people who liked it, but I just couldn’t take to it. Sorry.

Read the first few pages here.