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Dec 14, 2011
These were much, much better than I, a non-dog, non-cold-places person had anticipated. They are certainly not twee anthropomorphic animal stories, nor are they man looking at dog and describing his lot. Like Black Beauty they are told from the point of view of the animal but in the third person. However, these animals remain far more wolf and dog : they live in and respond to their environment, but do not question why it is as it is. I found this very powerful and felt London had got much close More...
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Dec 14, 2011
Picked it up when I was on a shopping spree, I knew it was probably about dogs and wolves, but apart from that I didn't knew what to expect.
So, I just started reading and let the book surprise me.
I started with White Fang which, apart from some focus switches in the beginning, I ended up really liking. It was fast-paced action from the beginning to the end, I just couldn't put the book down. There is a healthy dose of violence, but it's far from over-the-top. Instead, it really adds something to More...
So, I just started reading and let the book surprise me.
I started with White Fang which, apart from some focus switches in the beginning, I ended up really liking. It was fast-paced action from the beginning to the end, I just couldn't put the book down. There is a healthy dose of violence, but it's far from over-the-top. Instead, it really adds something to More...
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Oct 16, 2011
Are you special? Well of course you are! You are built up from your trials and pain. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Like White Fang, you are here for a purpose. Someday you'll realize what the purpose is.
White Fang by Jack London is an amazing story about a half-wolf, half-dog that goes through many struggles and truly learns about himself. He goes on a captivating journey of courage and strength; life. It also follows a team of sled dogs led by a man named Henry. It tells of their j More...
White Fang by Jack London is an amazing story about a half-wolf, half-dog that goes through many struggles and truly learns about himself. He goes on a captivating journey of courage and strength; life. It also follows a team of sled dogs led by a man named Henry. It tells of their j More...
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May 13, 2013
The Call of the Wild and White Fang, by Jack London, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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May 12, 2013
Holy allegory, batman.
Yeah, I abandoned this. No, scratch that. I rejected it. Cast it out. Flung it from my bedside with the bemused disgust of a scorned lover.
Which is saying quite a lot considering that (1) I'll read just about anything that involves cooking over fires in the snow, (2) White Fang was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid, and (3) I wanted to see Ethan Hawke in print super, super bad.
Like, real bad.
But as there was no sign of his hunkiness by page 118--when London trans More...
Yeah, I abandoned this. No, scratch that. I rejected it. Cast it out. Flung it from my bedside with the bemused disgust of a scorned lover.
Which is saying quite a lot considering that (1) I'll read just about anything that involves cooking over fires in the snow, (2) White Fang was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid, and (3) I wanted to see Ethan Hawke in print super, super bad.
Like, real bad.
But as there was no sign of his hunkiness by page 118--when London trans More...
Jan 08, 2013
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Call of the Wild and White Fang*, by **Jack London**, is part of the *Barnes & Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes & Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contem More...
Aug 10, 2011
The Call of the Wild (3/5) and White Fang (2/5), I averaged each companion novel for the overall book rating. I remember being read parts of White Fang when I was little. I was so enamored with Huskies after seeing the movie Balto and having been exposed to this book. This book sat in my to-be-read box for a while; I don’t know how long it had been before I decided to pick it up. I wanted it to be winter so I would be pulled into the environment of the snow and ice, but also wanted to time it wi More...
Jan 04, 2012
This book actually contains TWO Jack London stories. First is...
White Fang
It's riveting. London writes with an amazing ability to stay completely in the present. This leaves the reader scrabbling to figure out what will come next, but there is no sneaky planting of clues or leading you along. You just take each bite of the text and rush to gulp down the next so you can make sense of it all. This places us in the same position as the protagonist, White Fang. The key distinction between man and an More...
White Fang
It's riveting. London writes with an amazing ability to stay completely in the present. This leaves the reader scrabbling to figure out what will come next, but there is no sneaky planting of clues or leading you along. You just take each bite of the text and rush to gulp down the next so you can make sense of it all. This places us in the same position as the protagonist, White Fang. The key distinction between man and an More...
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May 10, 2013
This classical book features the great stories of two amazing dogs that have quite opposite lives. Buck the dog in the Call of the Wild was a normal dog that lived with a rich man. Then he was taken away to Alaska only to become a sled dog. He faces brutal challenges and harsh winters. Find out what happens to Buck in this amazing suspenseful book.
The other story, White Fang, comes from a completely different point of view. He was born from a family of wolves and brought into the sled dog life. More...
The other story, White Fang, comes from a completely different point of view. He was born from a family of wolves and brought into the sled dog life. More...
Jul 18, 2012
I will admit I was skeptical upon picking up this book, first of all because it was yanked from the youth section of my local library, and second because it fell into the pseudo-category of "Books I Didn't Read As A Kid But Probably Should Have." I didn't want to read a book that felt like homework. Thankfully, I was pleasantly surprised.
From Buck, we receive the tale of a "Southland" dog unleashed amidst the cruel, cold North and frenzied Yukon gold rush. Sold and traded among several differen More...
From Buck, we receive the tale of a "Southland" dog unleashed amidst the cruel, cold North and frenzied Yukon gold rush. Sold and traded among several differen More...
Aug 25, 2011
I neither read the sypnosis nor did I have any idea about both the stories. Actually, I was provoked read them because of the special interest of Christopher McCandless in Jack London's tales.
Christopher is someone I admire alot (to know who he is read Into the Wild). He admired Jack London and his work very much. Christopher was a outdoor guy, a tramp. So I was expecting these stories to be some kind of adventure stories. But I was wrong.
This is a finest book, I've read on dogs/wolves. Personal More...
Christopher is someone I admire alot (to know who he is read Into the Wild). He admired Jack London and his work very much. Christopher was a outdoor guy, a tramp. So I was expecting these stories to be some kind of adventure stories. But I was wrong.
This is a finest book, I've read on dogs/wolves. Personal More...
Jul 18, 2010
I'd read Call of the Wild about 15 years ago in middle school, and it seemed a good time to re-read that as well as finally read White Fang. I was able to vividly remember some of the passages I'd read all those years back, although I didn't remember just how brutal and violent things were.
These are not the easiest books to read for someone who has problems with violence towards animals. Luckily, the vast majority of the brutality is a "practical" kind of violence, in that the animals in here ar More...
These are not the easiest books to read for someone who has problems with violence towards animals. Luckily, the vast majority of the brutality is a "practical" kind of violence, in that the animals in here ar More...
Jun 20, 2011
So far I’ve read the Call of the Wild, this one wasn't quite as warm and fuzzy as I might have imagined it...but instead rather an emotional journey witnessing the ill-treatment and general journey of a dog through the eyes of the actual dog itself. Something about this story took me back to my teens and reminded me of the first time I ever read Fluke by James Herbert. I have to say this book, despite its small size (just over 100 pages long) proved to be very touching and involving...it drew me More...
Dec 24, 2010
As always, so thankful for our book club, for which otherwise I would not have read this little treasure. I find that there is always a reason and season for each book that comes into my hands. Every single book has had something specific to give.
I am trying to recall, however, which book I have read in which I was completely engrossed in a stream of constant and specific images, griped with so many thoughts and ideas that were so specific to the story of Buck, yet had so many strings of paralle More...
I am trying to recall, however, which book I have read in which I was completely engrossed in a stream of constant and specific images, griped with so many thoughts and ideas that were so specific to the story of Buck, yet had so many strings of paralle More...
Jan 17, 2011
It's winter and I remember loving the Disney version of White Fang as a kid, so thought it would be a good time to actually read my first London work. The actual story is pretty different from what I remember from the movie, (granted that was like 1991). I particularly remember the man Weedon Scott being a kid in the movie, but that's not really a huge issue. I was a bit put off with the amount of humanizing of the wolf in White Fang by giving it more thoughts, insights and moral growth than was More...
Jul 07, 2009
When White Fang meets Weedon Scott - it is good. Up until then it is so violent, dark, sad. It was more difficult to read than I expected but John Seelye's Introduction helped me understand London's meaning for it and so have a better respect for it as a classic.
This edition has the two stories of course - my 10 year old and I started reading The Call of the Wild together but it was too much for him - too violent, that much he could make out because the language is so old even I found it confusi More...
This edition has the two stories of course - my 10 year old and I started reading The Call of the Wild together but it was too much for him - too violent, that much he could make out because the language is so old even I found it confusi More...
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Jul 26, 2012
The Call of the Wild gets 4 stars. It was a great, powerful read and I love the perspective and writing used. Jack London was an amazing author. This story was just as good as I remembered it when I read it in Elementary school. It really pulled at my heartstrings.
White Fang gets 5 stars. So all in all my review is a 4.5 stars. I love, love, love this book. White Fang really stood out in my brain from the books I read as a child. I understand it more, now that I reread it and I am so glad I did. More...
White Fang gets 5 stars. So all in all my review is a 4.5 stars. I love, love, love this book. White Fang really stood out in my brain from the books I read as a child. I understand it more, now that I reread it and I am so glad I did. More...
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Aug 08, 2011
An absolute must read for animal lovers!!1st person narrative from a wolf's perspective and what a cunning outlook indeed.The microcosm of life examined through the lens of a carnivore where survival instincts and primal nature are the rules by which it lives by.The sheer audacity of life,the profundity,the sufferance and finally the long awaited acceptance of one's characteristics and ultimately the mastery of said traits.The story begins with the birth of a cub(white fang)which is 1 part dog & More...
Sep 06, 2011
Just like how human beings have feelings, animals have feelings as well. They might be not as wise as humans, but they still react from how they feel and learn from what they've seen. In The Call of the Wild, Buck, a dog stolen fromm his home, is thrown in to the Arctic north and suffers a merciless life due to the extreme coldness and the savageness of men, or beast. In White Fang, a part dog and part wolf creature turns heartless and cold by cruel abuse but transforms by the endless caring of More...
Sep 25, 2011
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Apr 13, 2011
Mmm, these books. I read them when I was in my middle school girl phase, which was comprised of me loving wolves and everything about them. I didn't appreciate these books as I should have, merely treating them as fun dog books. I reread them when I was older and loved them much more. The characters and the simple idea that London conveys through both: the wild lives in all of us, and animals deserve a right to live and feel that. The characters and the way London stylizes both of these works is More...
Mar 18, 2013
The Call of the Wild is the story of Buck, a dog stolen from his home and thrown into the merciless life of the Klondike to endure hardship, bitter cold and the savage lawlessness of men and dogs.
White Fang tells of the adventures of an animal, part dog, part wolf, turned vicious by cruel abuse, then transformed through the patience and affection of one man.
Jack London's superb ability as a storyteller and his deep understanding of nature and animals have made these among the world's most fav
Jan 20, 2012
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Nov 28, 2011
The beginning of The Call of the Wild was nothing more than a glorified tale of animal abuse. As a vegetarian and animal lover, my stomach was in constant turmoil in response to the horrid deaths and terrible whipping and clubbing endured by these creatures. For that reason alone, I won't read White Fang, as I have heard it is more of the same. I give this one star for an interesting dog's point of view, one for the beautiful scenery and realistic interaction between the animals, and one for eve More...
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Dec 01, 2011
I revisited Jack London's Call of the Wild after 8 years and it mesmerized me then as it did today. London is superb at moving the plot along with his straight forward and direct style that makes reading his work a thoroughly enjoyable experience. White Fang, started slowly, but picked up and struck a chord where I felt a kindred spirit of this creature, particularly upon the transformation from hate-filled fiend to adoring companion. Both are great reads, and both will take readers on a thrilli More...
Dec 24, 2012
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Aug 29, 2011
I read The Call of the Wild a while ago and recently finished White Fang, so this review will be geared towards White Fang.
To start, I did enjoy the book despite my adamant belief that it should probably be at most half of its current length.
London was an incredibly gifted writer, but damn did he feel the need to drill over and over again his points. After about 50 pages, I understood that White Fang was a wild animal. There was no need to carry on and on and on about how he is a wild animal an More...
To start, I did enjoy the book despite my adamant belief that it should probably be at most half of its current length.
London was an incredibly gifted writer, but damn did he feel the need to drill over and over again his points. After about 50 pages, I understood that White Fang was a wild animal. There was no need to carry on and on and on about how he is a wild animal an More...
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Nov 23, 2010
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Mar 13, 2009
Last summer, I read Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild. I found Christopher McCandless’s fascination with Jack London to be interesting, but it was hard for me to fully understand where McCandless was coming from, having never read London’s works. I also have a deep respect for animals and a disgust at their ill-treatment at the hands of human beings. For those two reasons, I chose to read The Call of the Wild for my Literature class.
The cover of the book captivated me. I enjoyed studying the picture More...
The cover of the book captivated me. I enjoyed studying the picture More...
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