The Call of the Wild looks like a short book! Who chose it and what do you think?
The Call of the Wild looks like a short book! Who chose it and what do you think?
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The Call of the Wild looks like a short book! Who chose it and what do you think?
Jack London a great American author. Classics are not made by length but by content.
Yes! It was very well written and I liked it very much. 🙂
Not really for me, but it was very well written.
loved this..
I chose it and will be reading it this week!
Ditto here!
I am just starting it due to other obligations. I had read it long ago and I am remembering how much I liked it!
It’s not really my cup of tea, but I caught on to that and managed to change my expectations and ended up getting a lot out of it. I *spoilers* really enjoyed the symbolism of something ‘domesticated’ getting wilder out of necessity by getting in touch with their roots. I can easily see how this could have happened to the men who travelled out west. You must be part wild to survive in the wild. XD Which does draw into question how ‘civilised’ we actually are. Are we ‘civilised’ because we are born better, or because we have created a new set of rules to live by because the setting we live in has changed?
Marie:
“because the setting we live in has changed”
We see this today in our society, when members of the upper middle class/upper class suddenly are stripped of their wealth and then have to adjust to homelessness and/or a significantly reduced level of consumption.
Yes. Which is interesting because, I’m Norwegian and in the Norwegian literature, the working class (either factories or farmers) are very romanticeced, and so you get this mixed message where a fall is on one hand romanticeced, yet they are becoming more “wild”, in a sense.
Same here, let’s ask Rita Bolivar. Also members cannot be tagged anymore, just Rita…
See above☝️ Kathy said it’s only Rita who can post now.
That’s weird! I didn’t make those changes. I have no reason to stop all from posting and in fact I love when you all do! I’m looking into it now.
That would be great, thanks!
It’s funny how this is often marketed as a kid book, but it’s really quite violent. I did like how stripped of a life of comfort, Buck slowly descended into his basic nature.
I agree. It was very strange since the writing was a bit simplistic (as I would expect from a children’s book), but the theme and a lot of the actions was way darker than you would see in children’s books today. Even known dark authors like Roald Dahl still made their work kid friendly with a lot og immagination , and thereby creating a distance to the action in the text.
I agree 100%. Dahl had humor to the darkness as well.
I”ll check it out!
It’s working!
I think Jack London may appeal more to men than to women
I still can’t
Checking!
I’m commenting, not posting ?
Oh you mean a new thread?
Kathy Adams yes
No new threads, only by Rita.
Kathy Adams yeah that’s what I thought, thanks?you could post previously must have been updated.
I don’t know why people can’t get tagged now. Looking into it now?
I did and really enjoyed it once I got in to it. I love dogs so some of it was sad for me.
I like it, but the return to primitivism is Darwinistic and bleak. I grew up with dogs, my parents still have one and I wish Buck had never been stolen. ? there are certainly other writers making me more comfortable than London, but it’s a good story overall.