My favorite quotes:
"They were called criminals, and the outraged law, like the bursting shells, had come to them, an insoluble mystery from the sea."
"The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there- there you could look at a thing monstrous and free."
"True, he had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible."
This book had some interesting points to make, but I don't think it did that great of a job of illustrating them.
It provides insights into the darkness within humanity, and the irony of "civilization" verses "barbarianism," which proves to be different than the "civilized" perspective.
Overall, other books do a much better job, such as Lord of the Flies.
1 star
agreed
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