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Call Of The Wild And Selected Stories (2000)

by Jack London(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: Seriously, guys, I dreamed about ice and snow for at least 3 days after reading this book.London does great things with a relatively simple cast (I would love to meet Malemute Kid, personally). Admittedly, I liked some of the short stories best. They had a grit and realism to them that Call of the Wild seemed to lack, at least from Buck's perspective. London's ability to drop a whole set of characters through ice or detail the icy death of a man incapable of building a fire with his frozen fingers was simple and stunning in its delivery.
review 2: In 1962 my mother arranged to travel by the HMS Milora, a freighter, from Duluth/Superior at the western tip of Lake Superior to Bremenhaven, Germany with me and my little brother, Fin. The trip through the Great Lak... morees, the Saint Lawrence Seaway and the Atlantic took weeks as we collected grain en route and were held up off Germany by a dock strike. It was wonderful. I saw icebergs, whales, porpoises, flying fish, luminescent planktons, mid-sea oil rigs and nightly adult movies in incomprehensible languages presented to the Norwegian crew, all of whom were very nice to the two little boys aboard.On the trip I did a lot of drawing and a lot of reading when not being shown around by the captain, the chief engineer or any number of crewmen. One of the more outstanding books was Jack London's Call of the Wild, a novel collected with a number of short stories also involving the northlands, dogs and wolves. Having known dogs well since infancy, first my grandmother's Peter, then my own Jimmy Olsen, and having spent every summer in the relatively tame woodlands of SW Michigan, I related well to London's evocation of nature and his characterizations of canines. Already I generally preferred dogs to humans, they being simpler and more natural in their social interactions. His descriptions of people abusing such natively friendly creatures evoked anger and, sometimes, tears. less

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