/lit/ - Literature

I feel like I have a vague recollection of reading this as a class in 5th grade, but I also remember absolutely nothing about it in the slightest. Maybe it was some other book about a dog/wolf in the wild. But I'm also pretty sure it was this for some strange reason. I dunno somehow this thread reawakened a deep memory.

>>22694674
call of the wild is about sleddogs

>>22694216
My father read this to me as a kid, and he was raised a Quaker (we were living in Alaska at the time, and, believe it or not, he was a sled dog racer).
Read it again a few years back and really enjoyed it.

>>22694674
>>22694688
>>22694713
Ah, yes, it does have that primal appeal which all of us can relate to. The desire for domination, to meet the cruelty and harshness of reality and triumph over it to become the powerful champion, the alpha dog. But the title of this work betrays the ultimate message therein, that this call of the primal, of the brutal, of the unthinking animal is all too tempting, this desire to meet bloodshed with bloodshed, to feel the corrupting and hateful influence of life and death competition and allow it to penetrate your very soul until you become the very machine of hatred and death that confronted your innocence and destroyed it in the first place. Thus, when assaulted by the physical slings and arrows of life, this call would have, not only your outer shell damaged, but it would have you betray the very thing that makes you human, to drive you wild, to madness. It does this devilry in an ingenious way, by anthropomorphizing the the main character who begins surrounded by the comfort of friends and family and an ordered life and romanticizes the fall into violence, gore, and aggression in a mindless, wild pursuit of power. This is lurid in the extreme.

based

>>22694216
I will now read your book

Long time ago I decided to give London a try and read some short story about a gentle boxer who loved poetry or some shit like that. It struck me as so naive and sugary that I've never read anything from him again.

>>22694688
sneeddogs hehe,,,,

No clue how London isn't more popular on this board, he's so deep into the proto-fashy, might-makes-right, man-against-nature themes that I don't understand how you basement dwellers aren't constantly setting him as an example to follow. Good writer too.

>>22696351
Kill yourself tranny faggot

>>22696351
So many useless threads dedicated to mediocre authors like Dosto and Marquez and so few about any other authors. It's like the bandwidth of the average /lit/ poster is limited to perhaps a dozen authors and any more than that precipitates smoke to emit from their ears.

OP is a coddled cityfag

>>22694216
Did chat GPT write this? It really wasn't that gory. Island of Dr Moreau was more gory

I enjoyed this book though, it's the only book I've read which talks about embracing ones beastiality instead of being wary of it like Lord of the Flies, or Heart of Darkness

>>22696328
He never struck me as naive and sugary
He was like a more verbose Hemingway

>>22696351
He was basically a 1920s communist in manly man costume

>>22694740
>domination
survival, actually
>power
please. The 'power mad' in power's aspect of Greed are the first to fail; also, not once is Buck an initial aggressor-- he merely learns through observation and WORK how to defend himself. By the book's conclusion Buck chooses to live the remainder of his days true to what he has become-- i.e. honest, and therefore away from a progressively soft human civilization that countenances hucksters, mountebanks, and ingrates whose idea of the good life consists in having absolutely everything (that smells of labor) done for one, or YOU. In an age where even 'the right to become oneself' is itself subject, and therefore more and more reliant, on 'political legislation,' it's a salubrious read.
This said, I too have my problems with Stoicism, which the book could be read to promote. Attack that, instead.

>>22694216
>blah blah blah
I read that book in second grade and it was based as fuck.

>>22696625
>He never struck me as naive and sugary
I dunno man, have you read that story? It's basically like Disney's princess fairy tale but for men.
I know I'm spoiled by contemporary cynicism and nihilism but I just can't take it seriously.

>>22696601
>beastiality
u wot

>>22694674
One of the characters is named Buck and I haven’t read it since middle school and that was just a little under thirty years ago for me. At the time it wasn’t interested but since the last couple of years I’ve developed an affinity for wolves (don’t ask) so maybe I might read it again next year

>>22697804
>contemporary cynicism and nihilism
Both are luxuries
>spoiled
Yep

>>22694216
Read this because my dad was a big Jack London appreciator and had us watch the Rugter Hauer version of the story. Book is legit good. The part where Buck has a vision of early man sittin by a fire and sleeping with one eye open: kino.

>>22694216
test

>>22694216
>In a twisted mirror of theology
Lake of fire?

>>22694216
Read White Fang then.

>>22697982
>beastiality
In fairness "animalistic" behavior with predisposed aggressiveness is something that "beastiality" sounds like it should represent. It's not his fault porn addicts and furfags ruined a perfectly could-be word. He probably read it somewhere and assumed it meant what I just said, naive to its ties to perversion.

>>22698666
Don't mean to be that guy, Satan, but sex with animals is properly bestiality, no 'a'
(besh'-..)

>>22694216
Lmao this board is full of fags
Don't at me

>>22697804
The book contained some pretty raw scenes such as breaking in the dogs or him killing that bull moose and all the fighting for dominance. It was not a typical little kid story

>>22698715
You shouldn't ever post again then.

>>22698715
It is thoughtless posters such as yourself who, ironically, would gain most from this thread, if only you had the prerequisite to be able to appreciate it. Alas, your cognitive deficiency deprives you the chance of fathoming an opposing viewpoint, and in your clouded naivete you lash out, like the threatened animals of this very book, who, without recourse to intellect, embrace brutality and embody bullying. Even as I type this, I know these words, like pearls before swine (wild swine, even), will be utterly lost on your feeble apparatus of apprehending and will be met by you with mere opprobrium. What a catastrophic existence you must inhabit when the height of your contributory powers amounts to "lmao fag". I weep for the state of this once illustrious board.

White Fang is better.

>>22700063
Also, wolves are cool.

t. unironic wolf enjoyer

>>22699999
checked

>>22696842
stupendously based take.

>>22699999
quints

>>22696351
Ostensibly and to an extent. Ideologically, he was entirely opposed to Nietzsche.

My mother is going to get evicted from another apartment because she bought a dog when the landlord said she couldn’t…

When I really think about it, my mother is the most irresponsible person I know. Multiple girlfriends have actually asked me to cut her off because she is such a negative influence on me.

She actually blames her ex-husbands and her kids for why she has debt. She says her ex-husbands ruined her credit and her debt is all student loans.

I really have a lot of resentment for both of my parents actually. My dad was generally not present in my life and where he was present, it was very negative. I just wish I had a good and caring mom to lean on then, but she was bad as well. I feel like I had no one. When I fail at things or I don’t have a lot of success, I start to feel resentment because I wonder if I really ever had a chance.

>>22694674
we read it in middle school but I literally cannot remember a single thing about the book. Maybe it's just sort of forgettable or maybe I was a retard who wasn't taking anything in

>>22694216
I read it recently and forgot about it a few days after.

>>22699999
Imagine getting roasted like this by quints

I just remember the end devolving to video game one man army fantasy shit with the canine beating a bear himself and doing all these stupid feats of strengths, I read it very long ago though.

>>22696625
Pro UNION LABOR

based Jack

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>>22696351
He was an open socialist and his books were burned in Nazi Germany, dummy.

>>22700116
I still remember I was filtered by the opening line:
>Buck didn't read the newspapers
Or something like that. After reading a couple more pages I went up to my teacher and asked her about it and she told me "Buck is a dog, you're right. The author is telling you about him as if he's a human."

>>22696625
Yeah 1920s communists were manly men.

>>22703127
That's so nice and wholesome, thanks man for sharing this memory snippet from school. It's quite good that you remember stuff from second grade, as apart from certain moments, I have a very vague recollection of time in the junior classes. Have you read his other works such as White Fang and An Odyssey of the North? Also, if I may, what are you reading nowadays? I was recently bitten by the World War II history bug last month or so. From that time onwards, I've been busy reading about the Eastern Front, the titanic clash between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Apart from that, I'm currently reading The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. Since winters are here already, I'd like to wish you all the very best. May you have a comfy and wholesome winter along with a nice and nourishing November. yay!

Read the Build a Fire short story in high school and remember it being kino. I tried to read Martin Eden a while back but I lost interest.