10 Fascinating Facts About "The Call of the Wild" (Book written by Jack London)

Mental Floss ^ | August 3, 2015 | JOY LANZENDORFER

[SamAdams76]

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The Harrison Ford movie sucked.

[a fool in paradise]

11. Jack London didn’t have caller ID

[DCPatriot]

Thank you!

[SamAdams76]

No movie adaption was ever able to fully capture the written story.

[MtnClimber]

I think The Sea Wolf is my favorite Jack London book.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[DIRTYSECRET]

untimely death at age 40

He was a drunk.

Assassination Bureau was his best work I think. We need one of those. How he was able to get into the head of these dogs was convincing-but true?

[dainbramaged]

The short story “To Build a Fire” by Jack London has always haunted me, having been in similar circumstances but surviving.

[DIRTYSECRET]

SEA WOLF. Out on the ocean with the woman he’d end up marrying. No mention of how they took a dump.

[steve in DC]

Martin Eden, as a child.

[fidelis]

Loved “ Call of the Wild” as a boy. Read it over and over again. I also remember enjoying a boys adventure story he wrote called, “Cruise of the Dazzler” about a boy that runs away to sea.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Exactly. I read this book in middle school. It captures your mind vividly and makes you the protagonist.

[TNoldman]

My Wife and I visited Jack London’s Cabin the Yukon in 1997. A great experience.

[daler]

Still my favorite author (fiction anyway) after getting hooked on his work in my teens, mostly due to subject matter.

Unfortunately, my literary hero was an avowed socialist.

[dsc]

I like Jack London so much I used to go down to Jack London Square in Oakland and drink at that bar where he drank.

[MtnClimber]

I named one of my dogs Larsen after Wolf Larsen and Lars Larsen.

[dsc]

Okay, I can’t top that one.

My dog is named after the old doo-wop song, “Duke of Earl,” and the TV show, “My Name is Earl.” We call him “Duke,” but his registered name is “Duke of My Name is Earl.”

[MtnClimber]

That is pretty good.

[Ben Hecks]

Would that be the First and Last Chance Saloon? It had business cards from hundreds of patrons pinned to the ceiling with thumb tacks and parts of the wooden building were from sailing ships.