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First impressions of Call of the Wild by Jack London

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Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Recently, I just finished reading Noel Fitzpatrick's book, Becoming The Supervet so I decided that I would start reading a book that my grandmother got me for Christmas and that is Call Of The Wild by Jack London. It actually comes with a second book which is White Rang but I'll be reading that next. So far, I'm not the biggest fan of Call of the Wild. I mostly don't like the way it's written because it is written in the perspective of the St Bernard and Scottish Collie cross-breed, Buck. The beloved dog gets stolen from his pampered life in California and shipped to Klondike to work as a sledge dog during the time of the Gold Rush. Whilst this is an interesting topic to base a fictional story on, he fact that it's all written in the perspective of Buck, kind of personifies the dog too much and you just end up losing all the emotion. It does highlight a lot of serious topics since Buck does unfortunately g...

Noel Fitzpatrick's book, Becoming The Supervet book review

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Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Recently, I finished reading Professor Noel Fitzpatrick's book, Becoming The Supervet. Honestly, without a doubt, one of the most amazing books I think I've ever read in my life. That is a statement I don't say that often but in this case, it is generally true. When you look at who Noel's become now, without looking at the last fifty years of his life, you'd think that he's a very privileged person who's rich and has got a lot of practices across southern England. However, looking at his past, you'd actually realise that he's a person who's generally been through a lot. Without having read his book, I would have never realised that he was bullied for the whole of his 5 years in secondary school. He talks about being beaten up during school and also having his bike broken by his bullies on his way home from school. Without having read his book, I would have never realised that he actually st...

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