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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
fast-paced
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Listened to the audiobook with the kids - Jeff Daniels does an outstanding job in reading it. His French Canadian character was excellent. A fantastic story.
15 A book becoming a movie in 2020. - The Call of the Wild - Jack London
*warning animal cruelty*
This was not at all what I expected. I thought this was like going to be like many other books about dogs; dog gets waylaid from owner and the ultimately finds their way home, sweet, innocent, happy ending.
This was not that.
Buck starts his life as a domestic dog in a happy home, where he trust everybody. It's this trust that leads him to being sold by a worker of his master's, in an attempt pay his debts. Buck then passes through a series of dog sellers and is beaten into submission by the evil man in the red sweater.
"The club of the man in the red sweater had beaten him into a more fundamental and primitive code."
This event was the catalyst for Buck slow but steady transformation from domestic house pet, to working dog on the trail, to ultimately following 'the call of the wild' and leading a wolf pack.
" His development (or retrogression) was rapid. ... And not only did he learn by experience, but by instincts long dead became alive again. The domestic generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest, and killed meat as they ran it down. ... in this manner they had fought their forgotten ancestors. They quickened the old life within him, the old tricks which they had stamped into the hereditary of the breed were his tricks. They came to him without effort or discovery, as though they had been his always."
Buck goes through a series of different masters: two relatively OK workers of the gold rush; a completely inept, dysfunctional and abusive family trio; to ultimately being saved from death by his final master, John Thornton.
On the whole this was a well written, fascinating read. The writing style of omniscient narrator while still being told from Buck's perspective, was really interesting. This was quite graphic and raw in places, but really honest.
It would have been 5 stars but I deducted one for the Animal cruelty and the graphic scenes of both dog fighting and human attack, while well written, not my cup of tea.
*warning animal cruelty*
This was not at all what I expected. I thought this was like going to be like many other books about dogs; dog gets waylaid from owner and the ultimately finds their way home, sweet, innocent, happy ending.
This was not that.
Buck starts his life as a domestic dog in a happy home, where he trust everybody. It's this trust that leads him to being sold by a worker of his master's, in an attempt pay his debts. Buck then passes through a series of dog sellers and is beaten into submission by the evil man in the red sweater.
"The club of the man in the red sweater had beaten him into a more fundamental and primitive code."
This event was the catalyst for Buck slow but steady transformation from domestic house pet, to working dog on the trail, to ultimately following 'the call of the wild' and leading a wolf pack.
" His development (or retrogression) was rapid. ... And not only did he learn by experience, but by instincts long dead became alive again. The domestic generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest, and killed meat as they ran it down. ... in this manner they had fought their forgotten ancestors. They quickened the old life within him, the old tricks which they had stamped into the hereditary of the breed were his tricks. They came to him without effort or discovery, as though they had been his always."
Buck goes through a series of different masters: two relatively OK workers of the gold rush; a completely inept, dysfunctional and abusive family trio; to ultimately being saved from death by his final master, John Thornton.
On the whole this was a well written, fascinating read. The writing style of omniscient narrator while still being told from Buck's perspective, was really interesting. This was quite graphic and raw in places, but really honest.
It would have been 5 stars but I deducted one for the Animal cruelty and the graphic scenes of both dog fighting and human attack, while well written, not my cup of tea.
I know this book is supposed to be like deep and literary. But. I gave up half way, read the cliff notes and found it pretty boring overall.
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-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
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death
adventurous
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
adventurous
emotional
sad
fast-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:
Yes
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Buku aslinya sudah bebas hak cipta, bisa diakses di website Project Gutenberg.
Buku aslinya sudah bebas hak cipta, bisa diakses di website Project Gutenberg.