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A review by pinetcht
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
3.0
I...didn’t like it that much.
I know, it’s an external reading, so I shouldn’t be expecting a lot from it from the first place.
Okay, it’s a classic, and everyone seemed to think it’s a good book, but maybe the boiled-down version ruined the merits the original one has. Even so, I feel like this book tries too much to shove the ‘house-dog-turn-wild’ kind of notion into the readers’ mind. I get that it’s the main message of the story, but with the limitations of being a learners version book, it feels really forced—everything happened really quickly.
And another thing is, I don’t feel any connection with the main character. Not because he’s a dog, but it’s just flat for me. Again, I don’t know if it’s the shortness of this version that makes it so.
What I got from this book, though, was how cruel humans can be. Throughout the book, Buck was beaten over and over, passed on to several owners, many of them merciless. It says a lot about the culture back then, during the gold rush, and perhaps even continuing until now.
Overall, I believe it would be a better book if I read the original version, but I couldn’t really emotionally connect especially when the story proceeds at a pace so quick like this.
3 stars
I know, it’s an external reading, so I shouldn’t be expecting a lot from it from the first place.
Okay, it’s a classic, and everyone seemed to think it’s a good book, but maybe the boiled-down version ruined the merits the original one has. Even so, I feel like this book tries too much to shove the ‘house-dog-turn-wild’ kind of notion into the readers’ mind. I get that it’s the main message of the story, but with the limitations of being a learners version book, it feels really forced—everything happened really quickly.
And another thing is, I don’t feel any connection with the main character. Not because he’s a dog, but it’s just flat for me. Again, I don’t know if it’s the shortness of this version that makes it so.
What I got from this book, though, was how cruel humans can be. Throughout the book, Buck was beaten over and over, passed on to several owners, many of them merciless. It says a lot about the culture back then, during the gold rush, and perhaps even continuing until now.
Overall, I believe it would be a better book if I read the original version, but I couldn’t really emotionally connect especially when the story proceeds at a pace so quick like this.
3 stars