we’re all here because we didn’t want to read it for school Edit: (i was in middle school when i commented this so every time one of u reply or like i get flashbacks 😭)
the chapters in order Chapter 1 into the primitive : 0:07 Chapter 2 The law of club and fang : 25:53 Chapter 3 the dominant primordial beast : 48:30 Chapter 4 who has won to mastership : 1:23:58 Chapter 5 the toil of trace and trail : 1:45:18 Chapter 6 for the love of a man : 2:20:44 Chapter 7 the sounding of the cell : 2:52:15
This will be the first book I will ever read in English, I've downloaded the PDF book and now I'm gonna get this audio book in order for me to improve my skills with listening comprehention and vocabulary.
Thank you Audiobook and narrator Michael Scott for splendid presentation of "Call of the Wild', which I read as a child in Polish as "Zew krwi" and it fired my imagination and desire for adventure. It still stirs up emotions because Jack London's writing is timelessly brilliant.
I read this book for the first time in 8th grade...originally I had no interest in it but once I made it through the first 15 pages it only took me 2 hours to finish. Once I finished it I was recommended White Fang by my English teacher. Call of the Wild is one of my favorite books, and every year I come back and listen to this recording. It makes me smile and cry all at the same time. The love of a dog and the wonderful literature are such a comfort.
Who eva is reading this thats still in school LISTEN. I seriously put this on to help me fall asleep at night...im 22. Its literally like listening to rain sounds but on steroids. It literally put me to sleep every reading class. I had to replace the book because of my drool stains. Remember this on your “no sleep” nights
Very good to hear audio book for the pleasure of it. I read the book years ago. I Pitty the students who are listening in haste to push out a meager paper for a class in a few hours. They miss the richness of reading an actual paper text and savoring the read, the story, the emotion and visual pictures that the mind can produce if you allow time to get swallowed in the read. To rush through an audio book if you are fully capable of reading is just very sad but speaks of our society today and the poor unappreciated and antiquated educational system that focuses on numbers or quotas and test scores rather than the growth and enrichment of the human mind and spirit.
There have been tests done and they have found that it is the same to either read the book or have it read to you. I am very appreciative of these books for my dyslexic daughter who is anable to read these books.
@@deborahmitchell2504 I agree with you in the context in which you present the reading versus being read to discussion. I'm glad your daughter can take advantage of the audio books. It will definitely enrich her life. My comments were directed more specifically to the students who are listening just to complete the project and at the last minute to boot. My sense is that if they didn't have to do a book report or pass a test they would not look at nor listen to the book for pleasure or learning. I appreciate your response very much. Thank you.
if you read this book or listen to the audiobook by your choice you will fall in love with this book but if you are forced to read it for school then oh boy will it be tiresome
i had to sift though a hundred comments of little grade school dorks who can't read bitching about having to read a CLASSIC for a class to find this comment. i read this book when i was in 6TH GRADE in 1999. i enjoyed it and it didn't seem like work. it's disheartening to notice the sheer disregard for literary appreciation. one day, in the near future, children won't even be taught to read properly, because their teachers will be of this most recent apathetic generation. SAD.
I HAVE TO READ THIS FOR SUMMER READING AND SCHOOL STARTS IN 8 DAYS AND I CANT COMPREHEND ANYTHING AND IDK WHY TOOK ME 2 DAYS TO FINISH BUT WORTH IT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS LIKE HONESTLY, YOU'RE A LIFE SAVER!
supposed to - engaging in learning is better than any shortcut to knowledge. Trust me. The phone in your hand will be worthless if there is no electricity. Don't be afraid to read, it will also spell for you.
But this is the whole thing right? I don't think it's cheating at all to listen to this and read the book while listening. That way it's even easier to make notes. :)
I'm here because I promised my favorite LA teacher I'd do an essay comparing the book and movie adaptation, and I need to read it quickly so I can start my essay. So I suppose I'm not here for school either, just a summer personal project lol.
This book is my first book report in school. I'm sorry I didn't get a good grade. I was told a book report should not be longer then the book. LOL I have walked the lonely trails. I'm a hunter. I've been 10 feet of a cougar. Too close. I wasn't hunting a great cat. We were both hunting turkeys. Opps. My favorite weapon is a bow. I understand the Call of the Wild. I liked being alone in the woods, forest, the wilderness. Moving quietly, softly. Knowing shelter is more important then going home. Knowing a fire is more important than moving on. This book like many others teach us to learn and move on. Survive.
Such an amazing story, first book that I really loved. Revisiting it for school and honestly I fell in love with it all over again, I find it easier to listen and read along so thank you so much for making such a nice audio version! My book was slightly different but that's expected when it is run through so many different versions and prints. Makes me want to lope through the woods, hunting and stalking pray just the same...
Warning! If you were an animal lover don’t read this book. It turns brutal without warning. I know it’s a classic but it doesn’t mean it’s worth suffering the damage.
i have the same book of this story and i'm ten but i'm from algéria and i have been learning english since i was three years old so i'm better than my mom -dad -uncles - aunts - grand ma - grand pa so i'm sepacil in my family
This was so dull Even in audiobook form I cant connect to Buck or other characters cus they all die anyway Too many fight scenes Some scenes wont get to the point fast enough and i lose interest 2020 movie adaptation was better for my taste.
This is a very simple yet fascinating film. A dog, a big dog actually, is captured in California by some dog dealers, and he ends up first in a sleigh-pulling team. He becomes the leader of this team of dogs that pull a sleigh in Alaska to deliver mail in all seasons. But the postal service is terminated, at least with dogs, and the dog ends up on a team owned by some private individual who mistreats the dogs. This particular dog, Buck, is saved by some independent “resident” in the village or small town and they both decide to go on a wild chase for the end of the trail and the wildest adventure they can find. The dog becomes the confidant and the friend of the man, and they find themselves in a totally isolated spot, living in a cabin abandoned by some gold prospector. The dog though finds a second friend, and it is a female timber wolf. The man is not jealous, far from it, and the end of the summer arrives, and the man has to go back down to his town. Unluckily the person who was mistreating the dog and whom the man saved the dog from, finally finds them and he wants to kill the man. The dog suddenly back from his wild love affair, attacks this person and actually throws him into the burning cabin whose fire was caused by the attack of the dog molester. And the roof caves in over the dog exploiter. But the man had been shot before the return of the dog and the man dies there in this distant and isolated place. He will probably never be buried. The dog though goes back to his timber-wolf love affair and brings his humanized intellect to the new species that will arise from the mixing of the genes of the timber wolf and a sleigh-pulling dog. Jack London was attracted by this call of the wild that works just the same for humans who try to find in this wilderness the new frontier they need in order to be human, meaning to transcend the limits of social urbanized life. The film shows it marvelously and we can wonder why humans cannot open their minds to this wilderness that is thriving in their minds, in their memories, and in their dreams that are all coming from what man evolved from 300,000 years ago. But there is a touch of nostalgia in this discourse. Has the evolution of man since this emergence from the wilderness 300,000 years ago been or become a perversion, a loss, or a transcendence? When we see how brutal humanity can become, we may regret what it might have been before the invention of agriculture, herding, and the property of the land, or the soil, that imposed a new working organization that meant the loss of the spiritual communion with nature and the wilderness. Enjoy the trail to this wilderness and remember that if the population goes on growing the way it has been growing for several thousand years, the earth will have no wilderness anymore. But of course, our solace is that by then humanity will have managed to destroy the planet that will return then to a wasteland of fake wilderness but with no humans anymore to start a new cycle of destructive escape from the wild. Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU VERSION FRANÇAISE Il s'agit d'un film très simple et pourtant fascinant. Un chien, un gros chien en fait, est capturé en Californie par des marchands de chiens, et il se retrouve d'abord dans une équipe de tireurs de traîneaux. Il devient le chef de cette équipe de chiens qui tire un traîneau en Alaska pour distribuer le courrier en toutes saisons. Mais le service postal est supprimé, du moins avec les chiens, et le chien se retrouve dans une équipe appartenant à un particulier qui LES maltraite. Ce chien particulier, Buck, est sauvé par un "habitant" indépendant du village ou de la petite ville et ils décident tous deux de se lancer dans une chasse effrénée pour atteindre le bout de la piste et vivre l'aventure la plus folle qu'ils puissent trouver. Le chien devient le confident et l'ami de l'homme, et ils se retrouvent dans un endroit totalement isolé, vivant dans une cabane abandonnée par un chercheur d'or. Le chien trouve cependant un deuxième ami, une femelle loup des bois. L'homme n'est pas jaloux, loin de là, et la fin de l'été arrive, et l'homme doit retourner dans sa ville. Malheureusement, la personne qui maltraitait le chien et duquel l'homme a sauvé le chien, les retrouve et veut tuer l'homme. Le chien, soudainement revenu de son histoire d'amour sauvage, attaque cette personne et la jette dans la cabane en feu, dont l'incendie a été provoqué par l'attaque du maltraiteur de chiens. Et le toit s'effondre sur cet exploiteur de chiens. Mais l'homme avait été blessé par balle avant le retour du chien et l'homme meurt là, dans cet endroit lointain et isolé. Il ne sera probablement jamais enterré. Le chien, lui, retourne à son histoire d'amour avec la louve des bois et apporte son intelligence humanisée à la nouvelle espèce qui naîtra du mélange des gènes de la louve des bois et d'un chien de traîneau. Jack London a été attiré par cet appel du sauvage qui fonctionne de la même manière pour les humains qui tentent de trouver dans cette nature sauvage la nouvelle frontière dont ils ont besoin pour être humains, c'est-à-dire pour transcender les limites de la vie sociale urbanisée. Le film le montre merveilleusement et nous pouvons nous demander pourquoi les humains ne peuvent pas ouvrir leur esprit à cette nature sauvage qui prospère dans leurs désirs, dans leurs souvenirs et dans leurs rêves qui proviennent tous de ce que l'homme était avant qu’il évolue il y a 300 000 ans. Mais il y a une touche de nostalgie dans ce discours. L'évolution de l'homme depuis cette émergence hors de la nature sauvage il y a 300 000 ans a-t-elle été ou est-elle devenue une perversion, une perte ou une transcendance ? Quand on voit à quel point l'humanité peut devenir brutale, on peut regretter ce qu'elle aurait pu être avant l'invention de l'agriculture, de l'élevage et de la propriété de la terre, ou du sol, qui a imposé une nouvelle organisation du travail signifiant la perte de la communion spirituelle avec la nature et le monde sauvage. Profitez du chemin qui mène à cette nature sauvage et n'oubliez pas que si la population continue de croître comme elle le fait depuis plusieurs milliers d'années, la terre n'aura plus de nature sauvage du tout. Mais bien sûr, notre consolation est que d'ici là l'humanité aura réussi à détruire la planète qui redeviendra alors une friche de fausse nature abandonnée à son sort mais sans plus d'humains qui pourraient recommencer un nouveau cycle de fuite destructrice hors et contre la nature. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
