Lord of the Flies

I understand the premise of this book, and why it is taught in schools abroad, but I failed to connect with it. Perhaps I shouldn’t read it at the age of 40?

Sure, Man is an animal, and it’s easy to devolve to a more primitive state. Sure, even kids aren’t as innocent. I get all that, I get the violence, the schisms, the ease with which we can destroy. I just didn’t like the prose, the fact that there are so many plot holes, that quite a lot is not explained, and I really had difficulty picturing the scenes described. I found myself reading the same paragraph 2-3 times trying to visualize who was saying what, to whom, where, and why.

Anyways, I don’t regret having read it, it’s just that I expected much more.