/lit/ - Literature

>be me back in junior high
>get assigned Call of the Wild by our English teacher
>upon finishing weeks later, it was revealed we would be doing a project
>one that involved splitting off into groups and decorating square pieces of cookie cake with icing and candy
>each piece had to represent a particular chapter that was assigned
>my group was given a particularly violent chapter
>when done, we were allowed to eat it
>my friends were kind enough to leave the center piece for me; the gory depiction of a dead dog covered in blood

What are some books you've read in school that you came back to later by yourself and ended up liking?

Did nobody say to Jack that you should show not tell?

>>22021064
Wild

Favorite adventure books?

Always find chapter 2 quite harrowing

>>17414765
the action-movie

What other books deal with an animal's point of view?

>He was a self-made man who pulled himself up from the bottom of the socio-economic ladder. Most of his knowledge was self-acquired; he lacked an extensive formal education. He delved into the Greek philosophers and European history, and he acquired a familiarity with the works of the modern European philosophers, including Kant, Hegel, and Leibniz. He also became well-read in biology, anthropology, and sociology. His thought, however, was most strongly influenced by the most radical figures of the late-19th-century era into which he was born: Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Did this have any point other than being a mildly entertaining dog story?

Books you loved when you were a kid that still hold up today.

>In the summers there is one visitor, however, to that valley, of which the Yeehats do not know. It is a great, gloriously coated wolf, like, and yet unlike, all other wolves. He crosses alone from the smiling timber land and comes down into an open space among the trees. Here a yellow stream flows from rotted moose-hide sacks and sinks into the ground, with long grasses growing through it and vegetable mold overrunning it and hiding its yellow from the sun; and here he muses for a time, howling once, long and mournfully, ere he departs.

>But he is not always alone. When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack.

ITT: rate the last book you've read

8/10 very nice I like it

I loved Jack London when I was a kid - It's a miracle I didn't grow up a furry.

"This book was really dumb. I mean think about it, a 115 lb dog KILLING a bear. Come on! Even a 215 lb man, without a gun, couldn't kill a bear. It was unrealistic and it was sick! Why would anyone want to hurt a dog? And for what cause? To go deliver mail across Canada? Which, the author didn't really explain well. The author put in all of these characters that don't really need to be put into the story at all. The author didn't really make the story interesting. Maybe it was because I read it for school instead of on my own, but it was a really really boring book and I don't recomend it to anyone at all!"
"I hated this book! I was forced to read this awful, terrible, abysmal, horrible, tedious, soporific, stolid, just bad book. I mean, the main character was a dog. You can just imagine how, clever, witty, expressive, and interesting the diaglouge was. NOT!!! The book simply lacked. It was painful to read and I don't think that anyone could torture me into reading it again. I would give this book half of a star if I could. And I would only give it a half of a star because Jack London went to the trouble to bother write it. I don't understand how it is a classic or why people like it so much."