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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
Ah, what a wonderful little book. I really wish I could have had this one when I was a kid. Nevertheless, it was still great fun reading it now. Having grown up with the Disney version it was a surprise to me that less than half of the stories in The Jungle Book (3 out of 7) are about Mowgli! :o The others are about various animals of the Jungle and they were equally great to the Mowgli ones, even though the latter are the most well known. It is also odd how Disney did the reversal of certain characters. In the book Bagheera is the more reckless one whilest Baloo is patiënt and wise. Kaa is also the dangerous and scary one (though he is actually a good guy), where Shere Khan is more of a fool if still quite powerfull being a tiger after all. Very interesting. One of the great children's classics and rightly so! I could have finished this in a day or two but I kept forcing myself to put it down in order to enjoy it longer. That should tell you something!
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
medium-paced
lighthearted
fast-paced
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Walt Disney, you suck.
I saw the movie as a child and watched it with my own children. It's fun, and "Bear Necessities" is a catchy song, but its a saccharine, sanitized version of the original. Some fun differences:
- Sheer Khan is lame in the original and forced to hunt babies and cattle because he isn't fast enough for anything else
- Bagheera, Baloo, and Ka the python team up to wreck some monkey @ss when Mowgli is kidnapped.
- Mowgli delivers a pretty viscous beating to sheer khan, but also get plenty of physical abuse from Baloo
- There are a lot of other, non-jungle stories in the book featuring seals, pack animals, elephants, and others
- There is also an inconsequential charachter named Dick Comeless. Was that a Kipling dirty joke? I'm not sure if dick had become associated with genitals in the 1890s.
I sound like a grumpy old man, but Disney is a bad influence.
I liked the book and am glad I finally experienced the original, but it isn't great.
I saw the movie as a child and watched it with my own children. It's fun, and "Bear Necessities" is a catchy song, but its a saccharine, sanitized version of the original. Some fun differences:
- Sheer Khan is lame in the original and forced to hunt babies and cattle because he isn't fast enough for anything else
- Bagheera, Baloo, and Ka the python team up to wreck some monkey @ss when Mowgli is kidnapped.
- Mowgli delivers a pretty viscous beating to sheer khan, but also get plenty of physical abuse from Baloo
- There are a lot of other, non-jungle stories in the book featuring seals, pack animals, elephants, and others
- There is also an inconsequential charachter named Dick Comeless. Was that a Kipling dirty joke? I'm not sure if dick had become associated with genitals in the 1890s.
I sound like a grumpy old man, but Disney is a bad influence.
I liked the book and am glad I finally experienced the original, but it isn't great.
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
adventurous
challenging
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
L'edizione è incredibile per confezione e ricchezza dei contenuti a corredo. Il libro è una meraviglia ed è affascinantissimo per me che ero "colonizzato" dalla versione Disney. I racconti con Mowgli sono molto più crudi, ruvidi, ma anche parecchio toccanti. Gli altri mostrano una varietà stilistica, una quantità di idee e un fascino incredibili. Che meraviglia.