![]() ![]() More like a Stephen King story than what I would have associated with London. "Diable - A Dog" was a rather fascinating tale of a man and dog caught in a spiral of mutual assured destruction. But I couldn't keep a dry eye when Buck was hitched to that half-ton sled of flour. Huge caveat 2: Animal abuse is also rampant in most of the stories.įor having such a reputation as an adventure tale Call of the Wild was a bit tamer than I expected. I was startled to see the N-word used casually a couple times in the name of some bush that grows in the region. Huge caveat 1: As a product of its time, this book has many racist elements. But while they could be overwritten and overwrought, there are some pretty good stories here about man's struggle against nature and his fellow man during the Klondike Gold Rush. At times I trudged through it like one of his many prospectors through waist-deep snow. ![]() Finally, it is so slim, I figured I could knock it out in a couple days.īut I did not realize how dense London's prose is, how dull it can get. ![]() As a bonus, while I have read and watched several adaptations of The Call of the Wild, I have never read the original story. I decided to read this because I wanted to read Christophe Chabouté's new graphic novel adaptation, To Build a Fire. ![]()
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