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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This is probably one of the best examples of character devolopment that I have ever read. London paints a pictures of Humphrey, Wolf Larson, and the rest so that the act as real people. It is also topped off with a great story of adventure and romance. However, the most important point of the book is the good versus evil, or the one who believes in God versus the one who does not. The reader struggles with the same questions placed on Humphrey until the good finally triumphs in the end.
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Summary: Uneasy mix of great uebermensch story and bad love story.
Review: It's a real shame that Jack London coupled one of his most fascinating and full-blooded characters with a stinker of a love story which carries no conviction.Maud Brewster, like many of London's female characters (from Skeet, Curly and Mercedes in The Call of the Wild to Beth, Alice and Collie in White Fang), is underdeveloped, a mite hysterical, and completely dependent on the male characters. Without much in terms of psychological complexity, Maud provides a poor, poor reason for Humphrey Van Weyden to rebel against Wolf Larsen. The first half of this book and its final few chapters are superb because London's male characters and their struggles are vividly portrayed. The knife-whetting contest between Mugridge and Hump; the homoerotic segment where Hump tends to a naked and wounded Larsen; Johnson and Leach's struggle against Larsen's iron fist -- London obviously loves these characters and gives them the light of day. Maud is another story. In any event, the first half of this book is the top-notch tale of a Miltonic hero's slow slide from power, and the ending a moving fulfillment of this character's destiny (life, in the end, *is* yeast...but a savagely active and beautiful yeast, at that). Another one of London's terrible worlds unfolding its brutal majesty before us -- and, of course, another book inexplicably relegated to the children's section of many a book store.
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Summary: Excellent and exciting!
Review: This book is a classic, and with good reason. Wolf Larsen is perhaps the best-developed character I have ever encountered in a novel. The story never lets up, and you will not be able to put the book down. Overall, it's a very exciting tale of the sea. Toward the end, however, the story becomes more of a romance. I didn't like this change of pace right at the end of such an exciting novel, and that's why I only give it 4 stars. But read it anyway, because it really is great!
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Summary: Set Sail With Wolf Larson Aboard The Ghost
Review: I can't say anything bad at all about this fine novel which exhibits great storytelling and wonderful characters. "Hump," also known as Humphrey Van Weyden, a wealthy and sophisticated gentlemen, is forced to endure the hard life of a sailor after being thrown from his own ship. A rich man must earn his keep to survive the treachorous nature of captain Wolf Larson. This is a classic story for all the sea-lovers inside us.
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Summary: It is a good book.
Review: I thought the Sea Wolf Was an interesting book if you like ships. It was exciting and never had a dull moment. Captain Wolf Larsen really had a reader going by his evil actions.
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Summary: It's the best book I've read!
Review: The Sea Wolf, by Jack London, is one of the best books I've ever read! Come to think of it, it's the only book I've ever read!
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Summary: i need to read it because my final is tommorow!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I have to read it now
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Summary: The Sea-Wolf Review
Review: "The Sea-Wolf" by Jack London is about a young man who is forced to work on a sealing schooner after he is rescued from a ferry accident. The title comes from the captain of the schooner whose name is Wolf Larson. Larson is a cruel and brutal man who, while on his ship, lives by his own rules. His morals are very shallow and he places little, if any, value on others' lives. The story continues in portraying the life of Humphrey, the young man, and how he copes with the brutality of sea life and how he adapts to their way of life. Later on in the story a new angle comes in when the sealing schooner picks up a lost boat and brings abourd a female. The men don't often encounter females seeing that their work is hard and they are out on their hunting trips most of the year. So this brought a whole new perspective and the men didn't know how to act. Larson, on the other hand, didn't change much. Humphrey got to know the woman and became attracted to her for she was much like him interest wise. So one night, when everyone was asleep, Humphrey and the woman, Maud Brewster, secretly got into one of the hunting boats and escaped the ship in the fog. After they were on the tiny boat for a long time they began to doubt themselves and their survival. But then they spotted an island and landed there. They made their own shelter and killed seals, like the hunters did, for food. Then one morning they awoke to find the dreaded Ghost docked at their beach. They were terrified, but soon learned that the ship's crew had abandoned ship and only Larson was left. Larson had been inflicted with a horrible disease and he went blind and his body slowly began to deteriorate. After he died Humphrey and Maud repaired the Ghost and sailed back to the mainland. I personally liked this story very much because it was interesting and it kept my attention. It made me want to keep reading the story to find out what obstacle that Humphrey had to overcome next. It had a great plot and I'd recommend it to anybody.
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Summary: Intriguing
Review: Not London's most famous story, and with reason, the Sea Wolf combines adventure narrative and commentary on life similar to some of London's other stories. Wolf Larson is a man with an indominatble will who would become a despot if given the chance. However, since the oppurtunity never arose, he must be content to rule over only his ship. While the people under his rule may be few, his power over them is complete. He is harsh, an atheist who views the human race as fermenting yeast. He is one of the strongest characters I have met in literature, and more dynamic than the others anyway. [I mean, Moby Dick's Ahab is strong-willed and rules his crew, but his character is one dimensional]. However, some of the key points in the story are difficult to believe, making the novel more surreal than London's other novels. So, while interesting and worth reading, I think Call of the Wild and White Fang are better written. I read this book when I was in eighth grade.
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Summary: It read liike a l940's screenplay.
Review: There was Burt Lancaster as Wolf Larson and Lawrence Olivier as Hump. (There have been several screen versions, none of them featuring my cast members.) I enjoyed the book but imagine it would have been written a bit differently today. The brutality we read about on board would have been of a different variety. The love story at the end seemed to be tacked on; I never fully believed it. Maybe my rating is really three and a half stars!
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