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I really enjoyed this as well. I agree its quite different -- practically a genre switch. Speaker for the Dead did this, too -- a genre shift from Ender's Game, but allowing the author to get into some more mature and rather profound human morality issues.

My father was an English teacher and used Lord of the Flies every year in eighth grade, as a way of getting his students to truly understand and love literature. He diagrammed the whole thing out like a madman -- his office looked like A Beautiful Mind with pages tapes everywhere and...