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A review by fbahram
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
5.0
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.