To Build a Fire: The Best of Jack London, Volume 1 (Abridged Fiction)
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3.6 • 8 Ratings
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- $3.99
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
Experience first-hand the dramatic ebb and flow of emotion as classic literature is transformed into the world of your imagination like never before. In
To Build a Fire, the listener journeys alongside a hungry man and his loyal dog through the vast, bleak tundra of Alaska's Yukon Trail...a landscape so cold, time itself appears to have frozen in place.
Grand musical themes with flowing melodies and dynamic rhythms support the story. Intense, stunning atmospheres of dark, sonic textures abound. Drums and percussion fill the background as rich, symphonic movements rise and fall, teleporting the listener to a foreign yet strangely familiar land. A compelling and captivating listening experience, both dramatic and introspective...and ultimately inescapable!
Customer Reviews
To Build a Fire (Audio)
This is a great story. The problem with this recording is the point of view has been changed from 3rd person omniscient to 1st person. Since the man dies because he is without imagination, having him narrate the story makes no sense and detracts from London's original Naturalistic view which pits knowlege against instinct in an unforgiving setting. Too bad.
Great story...
This is great story I wanted to share with my family on a road trip. I enjoyed the narrator, but feel the audio was mastered with excessive bass/ chest resonance and sibilance. Try as might I could not EQ my car stereo to clean this up. It was a frustrating listen. To make maters worse, at points there was a screaming electric guitar and later an African talking drum banging away in the sound track. Why? And it was $5 for one story.
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