Holy shit, this book was fucking awesome.
I thought it was just some nice kid's book about dogs, but it actually had great prose and very well developed themes.
This should be added to all the /lit/ starter kits ASAP.
Fuck off with your dog book shit
>>7667914
Confirmed for not even reading the book.
>>7667907
Great fuckin book. The perspective actually felt like an animal's, and somehow I completely identified with it. Primal as fuck/10
Agreed op, it was a great read. Anyone have any other London recommendations?
>>7667907
I remember reading Smoke Belew (or "Béliou-la-fumée" as it was an old french translation) a decade ago and finding it pretty good.
>The blood-longing became stronger than ever before. He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
Jack London is pretty awesome. I just wonder how the hell he could be a socialist when he wrote things as awesome and Darwinist as this book. I also read somewhere else that he believed in a "natural aristocracy."
But yeah, Call of the Wild is based. Buck is what I think of when I hear the word "Alpha."
>>7667982
>Natural Aristocracy
Love it. Of course we know who's the King of kings
>>7667982
In The Sea Wolf it's pretty apparent that although he glorifies "the natural man" he sees it as something to be feared and controlled.
>>7667946
How about you try reading the other books he wrote that are fairly similar to that one, as far as I know he has a bunch of of books about being out in the wilderness with snow and dogs
My dad read and enjoyed Sea Wolf when he was younger
>>7667907
White Fang was just as good as Call of the Wild, OP. Also, he has a short story called Son of the Wolf which has a white dude citing Natives under the Northern Lights. London's the shit.
>>7668358
White Fang is based af
>>7668358
The first part of White Fang feels like the prototype for Alien or any other "we're being stalked by inhuman forces" horror.
>>7668444
Trips confirm, added to my reading list.
>>7667907
i only read his post-apocalyptic novella Scarlet Plague which was pretty bad. ill check his dog books for which hes famous for after all i guess.
>jack 'london'
>writes a bunch of books for children filled with communist themes
looks like another jew playing the name game...his real name is probably Hymie Schwartz