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A review by danjk
The Sea Wolf by Jack London
4.0
The Sea Wolf is an excellent, flawed novel. It has given us one of the greatest fictional creations in the form of Wolf Larson, but has such a contradictory plot that fails to deliver what it promises in the first half of the book. In saying that, I did enjoy the second half as well., however, I felt immensely cheated because it de-evolved from this brutal, philosophy treatise into a Robinson Crusoe love story.
A lot of the plot points failed to deliver – Death Larson and a showdown between Weyden and Wolf. I found the wreck of the ghost on the same island they ended up on absurd and London was cruel to rob us of Wolf in such an insipid way.
It sounds as though I found this novel abhorrent. I didn’t. I actually loved it. The writing from London, as In his other works, is charismatic and delicious and the intelligent, ruthless philosophy of Wolf Larson was extraordinary.
It is an unpolished gem of a novel. Somewhere inside it is perfect, but from the exterior, it appears to be as dull as a rock.
A lot of the plot points failed to deliver – Death Larson and a showdown between Weyden and Wolf. I found the wreck of the ghost on the same island they ended up on absurd and London was cruel to rob us of Wolf in such an insipid way.
It sounds as though I found this novel abhorrent. I didn’t. I actually loved it. The writing from London, as In his other works, is charismatic and delicious and the intelligent, ruthless philosophy of Wolf Larson was extraordinary.
It is an unpolished gem of a novel. Somewhere inside it is perfect, but from the exterior, it appears to be as dull as a rock.