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The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
by Jack London
** spoiler alert **
I am such an animal hugger, and many people love this book. From my perspective though, it is shakespeare with puppies. No offence to those shakespeare lovers. All of the dogs die and there is no happy ending. Half of the book also consists of words that mean something very simple, but are confusing and long and sound smart. I thought the book was boring, and It made me sad to hear about the dogs treatment. I give this book 2 stars.
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A book doesn't have to have a "happy ending" to be great. Reality isn't like that, why should fiction be?
I agree with you. I had to read the book for school, and barely finished it. (And I didn't even get a good grade on the paper. Jeez!) This book was really hard for me to read because I love animals and have a dog, and I don't really recommend this if you like animals.
Hudson wrote: "I'm with you there...is there a way to rate it "-5 stars?" You can kill people in books, but leave dogs alone!"But that wouldn't be right because the book is about a dog. It wouldn't be possible. There wouldn't be a story. Plus, people are overrated anyway.
Brandon wrote: "Horrible review, it sounds like you read the first page and closed the book."I disagree...in my opinion, this review pretty much sums up the book, considering most of it is about animal cruelty and the drama of living in Greenland (or wherever they are, I don't remember exactly). But either way, the first page is the only remotely happy part (at Buck's home). You'd have to read the first two chapters to get a feel for the book's grim mood...
You will realize that as you read more books, you will realize that 99.99% of books DON'T have happy endings. Those are called classics. And that is why classics are considered the best stories ever written. The ones that do have happy endings are sappy love stories with a horrible plot, undeveloped characters (unlike Buck), and fairy tales.
you really, really, really need to mark this review as containing spoilers though.