Reviews

The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories by Jack London

jsm2000's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

esther_a_'s review against another edition

2.75

‘Call of the wild’ was referenced in another book I’m currently reading - I enjoy when those little things happen.  
‘Call of the wild’ and ‘white fang’ were audio books and I read the short stories. The writing is good but I didn’t overly enjoy the stories. 

sarmckay's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

Liked call of the wild. Not a fan of white fang or the story stories 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Violence, and Animal death

russ15's review

adventurous emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

zeroiv's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

ketevanreads's review against another edition

2.0

This is a compendium of Call of the Wild, White Fang, and two short stories, Bâtard and Love of Life. I read Call of the Wild first which I generally enjoyed but didn’t love the racism. Couldn’t stand White Fang or Bâtard and was planning on rating this 1.5 stars rounded up but now it’s 2.5 rounded down because Love of Life is so spectacular.

In only 25 pages we get a fantastic examination of the human will to live, and the repercussions when we succeed at all costs. I recommend finding Love of Life somewhere in the public domain but not so much the rest of this collection.

weeze's review

adventurous dark hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

ameliaminamikoji's review

3.25

'It is not the way of the Wild to like movement. Life is an offence to it, for life is movement; and the Wild aims always to destroy movement. It freezes the water to prevent it running to the sea; it drives the sap out of the trees till they are frozen to their mighty hearts; and most ferociously and terribly of all does the Wild harry and crush into submission man-man, who is the most restless of life, ever in revolt against the dictum that all movement must in the end come to the cessation of movement.'

rrs's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.0

catsguts's review

4.0

I liked these stories. I think I liked Bâtard best just because i love stories about terrible evil things. Like short and sweet but more like short and sour. To build a fire was really eerie and made me feel weird inside. It made me think about the cold. It was like the first few chapters of White Fang that i liked a lot because they really make u fear nature and distort that weird human habit we have of thinking we are somehow infallible and have conquered nature. in the face of nature, alone, we are so helpless. Moon-Face made me sad because i understand u dont like John Claverhouse but what did Bellona ever do wrong.