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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
hmm interesting
reread: changed from 5 stars to like 3.8 stars?
reread: changed from 5 stars to like 3.8 stars?
dark
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Cannibalism
fast-paced
In one of the most popular short stories of all time, Connell imagines a big-game hunter who’s become bored with his prey. So, on his private island, he stocks a different kind of game—the most cunning and dangerous animal of all. That’s right: General Zaroff hunts people.
He’ll give them a head start and toy around for a bit before finally dispatching them. But then Sanger Rainsford, a big-game hunter himself, washes ashore after accidentally falling off his boat. At first, him and Zaroff hit it off. The General reveals his secret, though, and asks his guest to hunt with him. Sanger has different plans, but the General isn’t so keen on letting him get off the island and spill the beans about what’s really going on.
And the hunt ensues.
I enjoyed this classic story and truly didn’t know which direction the ending would take until I got there. If you need a quick-hit Halloween read, “The Most Dangerous Game” is perfect; then you can watch any number of movies which are either loosely or directly based on Connell’s plot.
He’ll give them a head start and toy around for a bit before finally dispatching them. But then Sanger Rainsford, a big-game hunter himself, washes ashore after accidentally falling off his boat. At first, him and Zaroff hit it off. The General reveals his secret, though, and asks his guest to hunt with him. Sanger has different plans, but the General isn’t so keen on letting him get off the island and spill the beans about what’s really going on.
And the hunt ensues.
I enjoyed this classic story and truly didn’t know which direction the ending would take until I got there. If you need a quick-hit Halloween read, “The Most Dangerous Game” is perfect; then you can watch any number of movies which are either loosely or directly based on Connell’s plot.
Intertextualidad
Menciones directas:
* Ópera Madama Butterfly(1904) de Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Giacosa y Luigi Illica.
* Mención al escritor Marco Aurelio.
Indirecta:
?
* Lugares:
-Caribe.
* Ambientes: Embarcación, isla.
* Eventos (m.): Revolución rusa de octubre de 1917.
* Figuras recurrentes: Villano/a caricaturesco, cazador/a inescrupuloso/a, cosaco.
Menciones directas:
* Ópera Madama Butterfly(1904) de Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Giacosa y Luigi Illica.
* Mención al escritor Marco Aurelio.
Indirecta:
?
* Lugares:
-Caribe.
* Ambientes: Embarcación, isla.
* Eventos (m.): Revolución rusa de octubre de 1917.
* Figuras recurrentes: Villano/a caricaturesco, cazador/a inescrupuloso/a, cosaco.
adventurous
fast-paced
This second reading is better than the first. I saw so many references to this novel in pop colture that I longed to read it, and it is as good as anyone told me.
A sophisticated, rich, bored hunter is looking for the perfect game. Something cunning, something able to reason at his same level. So the next step is predictable: men should hunt men. It's the physical evolution of the philosophic homo homini lupus.
I agree this is a classic and a must-read novel. Beside it's very short, there's no excuse to skip it.
A sophisticated, rich, bored hunter is looking for the perfect game. Something cunning, something able to reason at his same level. So the next step is predictable: men should hunt men. It's the physical evolution of the philosophic homo homini lupus.
I agree this is a classic and a must-read novel. Beside it's very short, there's no excuse to skip it.
A big game hunter accidentally falls off a yacht on his way to hunt jaguar and is washed ashore on an island where a Russian game hunter is involved in the ultimate hunting challenge— hunting humans. And so, the hunter becomes the hunted. Very short story of less than 50 pages that delivers. A good read!
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes