Fascinating, but also way too brutal for my delicate sensibilities. "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London is an adventure, to be sure, but be warned – it doesn't pull any punches. A good read, but maybe not right before bedtime if you're easily disturbed. This book review definitely comes with a caution!

I guess it's important to remember that **The Call of the Wild** isn't just a socialist fable: it's also a book about a dog. That's certainly all I thought when I was ten and I read and re-read this for the first several times. I just really liked dogs, and we couldn't have one, so I read a lot of books about them. Here's a book about Buck the Yukon sled dog. His bond with his human is so strong that they'll perform miracles for each other. That scene with the thousand-pound sled is like the Rud...

He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.The Call of the Wild ~~ Jack LondonWhen I was younger, my mother bought me a copy of The Call of the Wild. It was part of a series of books for boys. I wish I had read it back then. It is a marvelous book. I'm only sorry that it ...

My goodness, this is a tough one for me to review. The abundance of violence and animal cruelty made this such an emotional read for me. I can understand why *The Call of the Wild* by Jack London is a classic and so well-loved—there are many great themes in this book, and the resolution is quite satisfying—but I struggled with most of the content. This wasn't a bad book; it just wasn't as enjoyable for me personally. If you're looking for honest book reviews before diving in, consider this a cau...

Humans can be so cruel. The way they break animals is deplorable; they use them, exploit them, and abuse them all in the name of sport, entertainment, and human convenience. Men are cruel. They try to conquer rather than living in a world of mutual respect. It’s man who has lost his nature, and he imposes such a thing on everything he comes across, but the animals will fight back: “With a roar that was almost lion-like in its ferocity, he again hurled himself at the man.” Buck is kidnapped (or r...

I remembered discovering either The Call of the Wild or White Fang when I was a boy and really liking it, so on finding this on our shelves I read it to Celyn (12 but too disabled to read).I found myself translating on the hoof as the book was written in 1903 and much of the language is quite Dickensian. Celyn's vocabulary, whilst largely unknown to me, must be derived from books and conversations, and neither of those would have supplied her with many of the words in The Call of the Wild.I foun...

THE VALUE OF FREEDOM Buck is the son of a Saint Bernard father and a Scotch Shepherd mother, and he has the look of a wolf.Despite being set mainly outdoors, this novel is a progenitor of the ‘prison’ genre, a true descent into hell: because Buck is ripped from his life as a domestic dog, made of idleness, rest, cuddles and security, and thrown in an instant into a world of captivity, violence, repression, prevarication – from a protected, peer-to-peer existence, hurled into the hell where the l...

I defy anyone—man, woman, or child—not to love *The Call of the Wild*. It’s the most thrilling adventure, the most touching love story, the most profound exploration of a creature and its connection to the natural world. If you aren't rooting for Buck by the end of Jack London's *The Call of the Wild*, you’re either cold-hearted or a cat person. A must-read for adventure book lovers!

REVIEW ADVISORY: Please be aware that, while the following review contains a number of adorable animals pics, young Ricky Schroder, who starred in the movie version of the novel, will NOT appear...I feared that would raise the sugar content of this report to diabetically dangerous levels.  Awwww... is a classic “coming of age” story, with the nifty twist of having the main character be a pawky puppy going on doggiehood. I really liked it, so two paws up there. A great read, and definitely worth...

I'm a total dog person. Obsessed. Dogs are my white whale, my opera in the jungle. If I had a genie, I'd wish away all humans (including myself) so dogs could rule the world. Wait, that'd be wish number two. Number one would be an Olympic-sized pool filled with dogs for me to swim laps in. THEN I'd erase humanity. Seriously, my dog is the coolest dude I know, my best friend, and the love of my life. If that sounds weird, piss off. I don't want to know you. So, yeah, I'm pretty much predisposed ...