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Summary: beautiful first go, hollow the next
Review: though this story is a wonderful book (and i do recommend it is read), i have to say i found it lacking the depth needed to make it worth reading even a second time. any truly good book should be treasured and enjoyed a thousand times, but i found that in reading it again it lacked the quality of plot and character development to justify another reading. instead, i suggest to anyone to read it once and savour the memory, because that's as good as it gets.
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Summary: How can I say this?
Review: It was just sad and made no sense. I don't think it was organized and it was just bad.
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Summary: Modern day ignorance.
Review: Paperback books are different from hardbound books--you carry them around with you.Young people tend to, more often, read paperbacks.Also, the young person, and even the adult, will tend to study the cover and read the back of the book over and over. Even the introduction can be fascinating- I have a collection of the best of Jack London with an intro written by Eugene Burdick. Given all this, can you imagine having a copy of The Call of the Wild and on the cover is a picture of a German Shephard? The dog in this story is a St. Bernard and that is pivotal to the story- long hair dogs in california were being kidnapped for work in the frozen North. Anyways, as Mr. coselle used to say "And there you have it, folks"Steve Kane
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Summary: A good read. I recommend this book.
Review: Buck, part St. Bernard and part Scotch shepherd, is kidnapped from his California home and shipped to Alaska to satisfy the need for sled dogs during the Klondike Gold Rush. He survives good and bad masters, all the while hearing "The Call of the Wild." When his last master, a man he loves, is killed by Yeehat Indians, Buck succumbs to the call and leads a wolf pack as the Ghost Dog.
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Summary: Wonderful~
Review: I know the man who wrote this book, he is a great author, teacher and man. I have a copy of this book, signed. I have red through it several times, and am always amazed at the information that is inside of it. A great book if you love the Call of The Wil
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Summary: The call to nature is the call to freedom...
Review: Jack London's short novel reflects the story of a St. Bernard dog, Buck, who is stolen and sold as a sled-dog in the harsh Arctic North. It is the time of the Klondike Gold Rush, and Buck not only becomes aware of himself as a wild animal but as a dog which must answer to the nagging 'call of the wild.' A wondeful story, and indeed, a prelude to a great lesson which we all should learn and know well
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Summary: Call of wild
Review: This is really one of the finest books on the market. The Call of the Wild is about Buck, a German Sheperd, who is dagnapped from his home when word comes of a Goldrush up in the Canadian wilderness. From then on, Buck experiences adventure, companionship, and tragic, tragic losses. This all, however, is character-building to Buck, and he becomes one of the best sled-dogs ever, except for the fact that this is fiction. That is the overall premise of this book. In case you didn't know, this book was written in the early 1900's by the world-reknowned author, Jack London. Jack London wrote many other books based around canine-human interaction, but none were as masterfully done as this one. The whole adventure that Buck has in this book is both tragic and woderful at the same time. One of the things that makes this book so wonderful is the way that it is written. The description, the emotion, all of the writing is done is such a great fahion to the point that that this book is amazing on a grand scale. In short, the writing is really good. Another great thing about this book is that it deals mostly with what is going on in Buck's head, and dialogue is kept to a minimum. This book is just so great in ss many ways, that I am entitled to give it a five out of five stars.
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Summary: An excellent read with mixed messages
Review: All over the world children are familiar with the name of this book, most of them have read it actually. I bought it for my son but back home found that he had already read it borrowing from his school library. Interestingly he was still very glad to possess it. That speaks for the appeal of the story and the narrative. Buck is a dog who learns hard lessons of life in the most honorable way and even the adult reader has no difficulty to identify with his struggles with proper dose of emotion the author intended. Buck acquires all the commendable qualities so necessary in an earthly life and retains all the instincts that bind living beings to each other. But then he does something that may have an unwarranted effect on the child's mind. He responds to the call of the wild and reverts back to what a 'dog' meant before human being became involved with this species. Is that a fair comment on civilization? May not this story,in the subconscious, encourage another POL POT, I could not stop wondering! Jack London did not live long enough to know its answer and thus we have to inculcate such values in young minds so that no wrong message is cooked in it. But, still, reading this story is highly recommended for all children.
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Summary: Buck; Or the Forgetfulnes of Living
Review: "There is an ecstacy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstacy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight. He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint and sinew and that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move."
That paragraph is my "review." The Call of the Wild is that paragraph. London's sweeping primordial prose on the experience of Buck, the alpha-alpha dog amidst harshest Alaska, gave me pause, to ponder the animal I am too. In such a short read I gather anyone can touch that "complete forgetfulness of living" and run with the wolves "into the womb of Time."
A no nonsense classic.
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Summary: Buck realizes his potential
Review: Gold was found in Alaska, the rush to obtain it required a strong constitution and many dogs to do the work that horses usually did in the states. The environment bread harsh attitudes. Also in the testing of ones mettle one finds their true potential.
Buck (a dog that is half St Bernard and half Shepherd) goes through many lives, trials, and tribulations finally realizing his potential. On the way he learns many concepts from surprise, to deceit, and cunning; he also learns loyalty, devotion, and love. As he is growing he feels the call of the wild.
This book is well written. There is not a wasted word or thought and the story while building on its self has purpose and direction. The descriptions may be a tad graphic for the squeamish and a tad sentimental for the romantic. You see the world through Buck's eyes and understand it through his perspective until you also feel the call of the wild.
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