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Rated The Call of the Wild 6/10

Far more brutal than I expected.<br/><i></i><br/>I'd known that Call of the Wild (and White Fang) were firm favourites of friends, and I knew they were books held in high regard - and I kind of assumed it was good for dog lovers.<br/><br/>I had originally thought of reading this aloud to my daughter (absolutely a dog lover) but I'm glad I didn't.<br/><br/>This story quickly gets to Buck being beaten, and beaten and then beaten some more. I guess the story is about finding strength when pushed to your limits, but I'm no English scholar so I could have totally missed the point!<br/><br/>Buck is certainly heroic (or perhaps stoic) in the face of insurmountable hardship, and perhaps this is representative of the times that London lived in?<br/><br/>What amazed me was, apparently, the Kindle version of the book is 45 pages - and it took me a week to read - either my page numbers are wrong or I stumbled through this book!!!

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Published 2026-08-01 11:10 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere