The Inheritors
Golding’s follow-up to Lord of the Flies, this is an unusual novel about the last tribe of Neanderthals in Europe and their fatal encounter with a tribe of more advanced and infinitely more ruthless Humans.
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I don't really have any complaints about this list, but I would include:
The Castle - Franz Kafka
American Tabloid - James Ellroy
The Inheritors - William Golding
American Pastoral - Philip Roth
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
- The Inheritors by William Golding is the novel that lodged itself in my subconscious more deeply than any other book.
It fostered a curiosity in me about the nature of humanity, and a lingering awareness that history is written by the survivors.
Innocence is often extinguished not by evil intent, but by efficiency.
- Not quite the same but The Inheritors by William Golding explores the coexistence of the two groups.
- The closest I can think of is William Golding's novel The Inheritors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inheritors_(Golding_novel)
- In print:
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen. (Much more disjointed than the film, but a quick read.)
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
On audiobook (I know, not technically reading):
Garth Marenghi's horror trilogy (Matthew Holness is one of the best narrators I've heard.)
On Kindle:
Cut Throat: the Vicious World of Rod Maclean by Wayne Thallon (I don't believe the half of it, but I know many of the locations discussed in it. I seem to find true crime my light reading these days)
An Angel at my Table by Janet Frame
The Summer Son by Craig Lancaster
Recently finished:
Sky Above, Great Wind by Kazuaki Tanahashi
Jew(ish) by Matt Greene
The House that Evolves by Pauline Hunter
The Inheritors by William Golding (made much less of an impact than the last time I read it.)
