another of those blatantly 'truthful' books... a bunch of british kids stranded on an uninhabited island... things go smooth at first until they slowly forget the civilization and the 'rules'... things take a turn for worse with the rivalry for the position of the "Chief", the competition for accumulating a "tribe"... there's accidental murder and then a wilful, conscious one... when things seem to be at their blackest, when the whole bunch of boys are chasing one of their own to kill, when they've set fire to the whole forest, including the fruit trees, they are spotted and rescued... maybe the writer's trying to draw a parallel to the crap we indulge in in our own daily lives... like how everybody has a group to like and an anti-group to hate... religion, race, nation, gender... and how we'll burn our own island in an attempt to get to the members of the 'other' group...good read... lovely if you have too much faith in humanity and need a little toning down...
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