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I will always love this book. Another amazing stories from my beloved Alaska. The second part not so exciting, though. Feb 11, Yrinsyde rated it really liked it. What a cracker of a story! My review What a cracker of a story! My review Nov 28, Grevick rated it liked it. I liked the "meta" idea of this book. On the beginning we see Christopher Bellew, who agreed to write a series of short stories for the newspaper in San Francisco.
This job is boring, exhausting, and also unpaid. So our hero decides to "run away" to the North. That part I liked. It was also educational to read about customs and conditions of Klondike back than. Some of I liked the "meta" idea of this book. Some of the stories were quite engaging. But it was not enough to really like the whole book. Maybe I am just not a right audience for it. Repeating motive of the book was how good it is to "eat bear meat" - idiom for living like a "true" man, on the North, looking for adrenaline, chasing gold and moose, running on dog sledge, fighting and scheming etc etc.
It's not all that one-sided; sometimes Smoke shows his wits, his generous heart, he also has love interest in a book. But still, it hasn't got me. It was a quite entertaining book to read. So it was really fascinating when I was familiar with all those places when I was reading a book White Horse, Dawson, Yukon etc.
This books doesn't make you think much, but it was not boring either. Kit Bellew is a really handy person with a lot of crazy ideas. Oct 24, Tracie Simonton rated it really liked it. This book is timeless! It was easy for me to relate with the characters Mar 03, Stephen Whiteside rated it liked it. I have to say, this struck me as rather a strange book, but once I got into its groove, I actually enjoyed it very much.
It almost reads like a superhero comic book without the pictures. I expect Smoke Bellew is essentially an idealised version of the author, Jack London, himself, and represents how London would like to be if he had superhuman strength and courage. It lacks the emotional depth and honesty to be a proper book for adults, but is certainly not a book for children.
One of the main at I have to say, this struck me as rather a strange book, but once I got into its groove, I actually enjoyed it very much. One of the main attractions of the book is how much it teaches you, indirectly, about the Klondike gold rush, which has always fascinated me. The only other writer I am aware of who tackles it to any degree is the poet, Robert Service. Living in Australia, I have long been fascinated by the similarities and differences between Australia and Canada. The Yukon and the Australian Outback have much in common.
They are both hostile, extreme environments, with little water or cultivable land and sparse populations.
The main difference, of course, is that the Yukon is very cold, while the Australian Outback is very hot. Australia has also had its gold rushes. Australia also has its own snow country, but it is nowhere near as extensive, or as cold, as Canada's. Smoke Bellew is something of a Paul Bunyan. Whereas Bunyan is competing against modern technology, Bellew is showing that a 'newbie' or 'cheechako' can match it with an old timer. There seems to be nothing Bellew cannot achieve if he applies himself wholeheartedly to the task in hand.
Much of the description of the various ice, snow and water conditions went over my head, but I understood enough to get the general gist most of the time. London is certainly inventive, and manages to dream up a good number of diverse challenges for Bellew to tackle. Yes, there is a love interest in the book, but the relationship is strictly platonic. The reader is left to imagine that the two may have eventually become closer, but London certainly isn't going to tell you about it! All in all, though the book has a very old fashioned feel to it, it is a great fun read, and the unusual nature of the subject matter adds further appeal.
For people who love historical books set in the snow, like me, it is definitely worth reading. Dec 31, Taavi Tuisk rated it it was amazing. Klondike gold rush stories. I read this book in my teenage years several times. Made me yearn for Alaska. The yearning is still there. Very romantic view to the gold rush compared to Wikipedia entry. Nov 14, Bill Jenkins rated it liked it.
This novel is a collection of stories surrounding the main character Smoke Bellew. Each chapter is a separate cohesive story and don't follow any timeline except for the first chapter which sets up the rest of the stories so can be read in any order. The stories are of varying length. The latter chapters are longer stories. Smoke Bellew is a an educated gentleman of San Francisco who writes for a local newspaper but isn't getting a salary. His uncle tells him about a chance to see Alaska by hel This novel is a collection of stories surrounding the main character Smoke Bellew.
His uncle tells him about a chance to see Alaska by helping his cousins and Smoke jumps at the chance. The stories are scattered with humor, heartache and sadness; all of the stories involve adventure. I enjoyed these stories; they are very easy to read. Jack London does a good job describing very cold weather and most of the action involves the danger of the cold.
May 03, Petur Nedel4ev rated it liked it. The characters weren't really that interesting and developed for me to care for what was hapenning. The action at some points was felt rushed and was sometimes confusing to read through. I did however enjoy the beginning part, where there was some interesting development and I really enjoyed the gambling chapter where everything was straight to the point.
The final chapter was also exciting and fun but the end itself didn't provide a satisfying conclusion. Jul 28, P. Winn rated it it was amazing. Christopher Bellew seems to have everything, But, hen Klondike fever strikes Christopher sees a chance to break away and starts on an incredible journey.
Love this author and the great landscapes he takes readers through. Jul 06, Forked Radish marked it as anthology Shelves: librivox-solo , reading-mediocre , gutenberg. Apr 17, Julia rated it it was amazing. Mar 21, Kenneth Flusche rated it it was amazing. Dec 28, Matti rated it really liked it. Almost perfect. Jan 06, Mariya Tsolovska rated it it was amazing. Amazing story, full of different little stories, but all with happy ending.
Struggles about the most important in life - how to be your best and how to "eat meat from a bear" Amazing story, full of different little stories, but all with happy ending.
Struggles about the most important in life - how to be your best and how to "eat meat from a bear" May 14, Robbie Forkish rated it really liked it. This is the final book in my collection of Jack London short stories that I've been reading over the past 3 or 4 years. I also read Call of the Wild but couldn't get through White Fang, which I remember as a favorite from my early teens--which is the age of the intended audience. These stores are wilderness classics, but also contain deep insights into what motivates people, mostly men, to live and struggle in harsh but pristine conditions.
It's been very satisfying to read the Jack London cor This is the final book in my collection of Jack London short stories that I've been reading over the past 3 or 4 years. It's been very satisfying to read the Jack London corpus, I have his biography on my list now. Dec 04, Edwin Martin rated it it was amazing. This is an adventure comedy! Most of the place names are real in the Yukon Territory and AK, as I enjoyed looking them up on Google maps as I read my library e-book edition This is an adventure comedy!
Most of the place names are real in the Yukon Territory and AK, as I enjoyed looking them up on Google maps as I read my library e-book edition Jul 07, Koen rated it liked it. The rendition on Librivox is horrible - you can read the book online free at openlibrary. View 1 comment. Sep 17, Mirela rated it really liked it Shelves: adventures , reviews , classics , ebooks. Jack London won me over again with this amusing book of adventures in Klondike during the Golden Rush.
The impressions of London's life of a gold miner in the North are here assigned to a fellow called Kit "Smoke" Bellew, whose family excursion to northern wilderness made him grow some respect for living closer to nature, for which reason he decides to stay there and explore the true non-urban life, nature and himself.
So Jack-Londonish, wouldn't you agree? London knits his memoirs from the North into several stories, making the novel flow like a summer stream: curve here, waterfall there, golden nuggets on a shallow bank and willow trees atop I enjoyed reading how these two heroes made a speculative egg-crisis or, in another subtitle, how Smoke developed a system to beat the roulette and the "house". While I was commencing with "Smoke Bellew", I thought of Krakauer's "Into The Wild", fearful that it would be another nauseous book which I would have to labor hard about if wishing to reach the books end.
A splendid nightcap-read. Light, funny at times, cheerful and generally "victorious" in most of its tales, it just opened my appetite for more of London's less known works.
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