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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This was a little rough at both the beginning and the end of the book. I read it in a day, though, and for the most part, it was a great book that was hard to stop reading. I don’t really like books that are told from the animal’s POV, but this felt different. It was easy to get invested, and I didn’t feel like the author was trying to get into the animal’s head and thoughts, which usually just seems silly and hard to relate to. I liked this a lot.
Just finished the book, and now staring at our cat Buzz imagining him running free in the Alaskan wilderness, embracing the ways of his pre-domestication ancestors. But who would give him his daily inhaler?
Beautifully told, you just have to know what happens to Buck!
What a brilliant classic by Jack London where the main hero is a dog by the name of Buck! Who doesn't love classics or dogs? I felt that on a miniscule scale, I could relate to Buck in his departure from the comfortable life to follow the calling of the wild, even if he didn't fully understand it.
The Call of the Wild by Jack London was so good, so addictive, that I was thrilled to stand in long lines at the film festival and slightly upset to put it away when the movies started. It reads like poetry, it penetrates like good wine, it stays with you like a good long kiss and it leaves you wondering about a different world, the world of wild animals and dark forests and deep mysteries of time and nature.
The transformation of Buck from a house dog to a wild wolf-like leader of the pack in the harshest conditions known to man and animal is oh so captivating. It is a hard return to the bare minimums, a revisiting of the brutal rules of survival of the fittest where whatever doesn't kill you toughens you beyond your wildest imagination.
The journey demanded that Buck adapt or else, and those passages are the height of London's articulation, all through the eyes of a dog, no less! From learning the law of club and fang to discovering the laws of following versus leading the pack, from surviving a terrible turn of events when his fate falls into the wrong hands to finding and experiencing a deep love of man, and finally, to answering the call of the wild, this marks one of the best short novels I have ever read.
What a brilliant classic by Jack London where the main hero is a dog by the name of Buck! Who doesn't love classics or dogs? I felt that on a miniscule scale, I could relate to Buck in his departure from the comfortable life to follow the calling of the wild, even if he didn't fully understand it.
The Call of the Wild by Jack London was so good, so addictive, that I was thrilled to stand in long lines at the film festival and slightly upset to put it away when the movies started. It reads like poetry, it penetrates like good wine, it stays with you like a good long kiss and it leaves you wondering about a different world, the world of wild animals and dark forests and deep mysteries of time and nature.
The transformation of Buck from a house dog to a wild wolf-like leader of the pack in the harshest conditions known to man and animal is oh so captivating. It is a hard return to the bare minimums, a revisiting of the brutal rules of survival of the fittest where whatever doesn't kill you toughens you beyond your wildest imagination.
The journey demanded that Buck adapt or else, and those passages are the height of London's articulation, all through the eyes of a dog, no less! From learning the law of club and fang to discovering the laws of following versus leading the pack, from surviving a terrible turn of events when his fate falls into the wrong hands to finding and experiencing a deep love of man, and finally, to answering the call of the wild, this marks one of the best short novels I have ever read.
This book was awesome. A bit gruesome and violent at some points but the story was beautiful and haunting. I loved it so much that I bought the Barnes and Noble Classic Edition. Reccomend this to anyone who likes dogs and wants a good story.