Jack London
Paperback | Pages: 400 pages Rating: 3.99 | 19561 Users | 265 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories |
| ISBN: | 0192835149 (ISBN13: 9780192835147) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Buck, Spitz, John Thornton, White Fang, Bâtard |
| Setting: | Alaska(United States) |
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When reading Jack London's work, I reach a cathartic experience that is usually only achievable by a powerful film (Schindler's List, Gladiator, Munich). However, Jack London is able to achieve that (at least for me) without the emotional orchestral soundtrack, or the film techniques used in modern cinema today. He is able to have me pause and contemplate the way I have lived my life and how I will continue. His sentences take me to a place where there is no iphone, ipads, ipods, no "generation me." It brings my focus back to the human emotion, the human experiences. Slowly but surely, the world of Fahrenheit 451 will soon be our world, and before long, we will be living in the world of 1984. Call of The Wild and White Fang helps me not to be apart of that.Point Out Of Books The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
| Title | : | The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories |
| Author | : | Jack London |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 400 pages |
| Published | : | August 20th 1998 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published 1906) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Literature. Short Stories. Adventure |
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Ratings: 3.99 From 19561 Users | 265 ReviewsAssess Out Of Books The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
In having to review this particular collection of stories, I have to give some thought to all of the contents, which include 4 stories, and the introduction by James Dickey and afterword by Andrew Sinclair.Context thus established, yes, this is all very good stuff.The introduction nicely sets the tone for the four stories (Batard, Call of the Wild, Love of Life, White Fang) and the stories themselves all have their own particular appeals (in order of descending personal preference: Call, Love,When reading Jack London's work, I reach a cathartic experience that is usually only achievable by a powerful film (Schindler's List, Gladiator, Munich). However, Jack London is able to achieve that (at least for me) without the emotional orchestral soundtrack, or the film techniques used in modern cinema today. He is able to have me pause and contemplate the way I have lived my life and how I will continue. His sentences take me to a place where there is no iphone, ipads, ipods, no "generation
I just re-read Call of the Wild for the first time since grade school. Loved it. I will probably read White Fang again and maybe some of the others, but there are so many books, and there is so little time ...
The above rating comes with a caveat. It applies to the story "The Call of the Wild," which is a bit ironic since as a child, I vastly preferred "White Fang" to "The Call of the Wild" and yet this time I found "White Fang" nearly unreadable as it just seemed to be so slow. "The Call of the Wild" really has no wasted space and is beautifully constructed. I started a few of the other very short stories in this volume by London, but had grown tired of the violence toward dogs and just give up. It
I'm no animal lover (although I wouldn't want to hurt one either), so I began to read this with very low expectations. The reason why I picked up the book was because I do love the most northern regions of our planet and because Jack London is referred to several times as a source of inspiration to Christopher McCandless in 'Into the Wild'.But much to my surprise I really liked the stories. I think some situations are described and analyzed remarkably well, and London definitely knew how to
Enjoyed these stories much more than I thought I would. Really enjoyed both "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang". The most obvious reason being that they were, despite everything else, riveting adventures set during the harsh/romantic Klondike Gold Rush. "White Fang" started off slower, and was more depressing, but also rewards the reader with the sweetest ending imaginable...it was good. Not sure if London's portrayal of dogs and their intelligence is in any way accurate but when London
When reading Jack London's work, I reach a cathartic experience that is usually only achievable by a powerful film (Schindler's List, Gladiator, Munich). However, Jack London is able to achieve that (at least for me) without the emotional orchestral soundtrack, or the film techniques used in modern cinema today. He is able to have me pause and contemplate the way I have lived my life and how I will continue. His sentences take me to a place where there is no iphone, ipads, ipods, no "generation
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