The Call of the Wild

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This review focuses only on White Fang. It feels like it took me about a hundred years to read this book. Part of this might have been the opening set piece — “The Trail of the Meat” — which sent my brain into immediate overload with its sheer brilliance. Up until a somewhat dopey deus ex machina of......more

Eu li o livro no seu original inglês e adorei a experiência. Recomendo fortemente essa escolha. Este livro é uma coletânea de contos e novelas curtas pelo escritor Norte-Americano Jack London. Não vou escrever um biografia aqui mas para dar uma ideia sobre o tipo de pessoas e a sua personalidade bast......more

4.4/5: driving character development Jack London writes like you're watching a nature documentary: real, zero anthropomorphic tendencies, just straight-up action. The stuff Buck and White Fang go through (along with even minor characters, like the fantastic first part of White Fang) are so well writ......more

Okay this is gonna be a lot because there’s four separate stories in this one book but basically The Call of the Wild and White Fang were both very engaging stories about dogs and the changes go through over their lives. The stories, acting as antitheses of each other, illustrate how equally easy it......more

I don't exactly like the book, and my main issue with it is the random slurs that pop up in sentences that don't even need them. And for specific ratings for each story, I didn't like Call of the Wild, kind of became tedious and I didn't know what a character was (like a dog or a human) and how char......more