3.5
The Most Dangerous Game
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Richard Connell was well-known for his masterful short stories and achieved great professional success, with his work often appearing in “The Saturday Evening Post” and “Collier’s” magazines. His most popular tale, “The Dangerous Game”, also published as “The Hounds of Zaroff”, is a perfect example of Connell’s impressive talent and distinct style. Still frequently adapted for stage and screen nearly a century after it first appeared, it is the fascinating and exciting tale of Sanger Rainsford, an experienced big-game hunter. Rainsford suddenly finds himself the hunted when he is ship-wrecked on a seemingly deserted island. There he finds General Zaroff, a retired military man, who has grown bored of hunting animals and now spends his time hunting human sailors who get stranded on his island. Rainsford must fight for his life against the clever Zaroff in Connell’s suspenseful and intriguing tale.
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3.5
“"one superstitious sailor can taint the whole ship's company with his fear." yo, i think there are cannibals on that island. "maybe. but sometimes i think sailors have an extra sense that tells them
when they are in danger. sometimes i think evil is a tangible thing--with wave lengths, just as sound and light have. an evil place can, so to speak, broadcast vibrations of evil." i feel like they might pick up on something but it'll be something they'd never have expected like ever. why didn't rainsford try to shout for whitney for help? i feel like he was way too nonchalant about falling off his yacht and into the ocean aftr hearing a gun but maybe he doesn't really care or isn't surprised because he's an expect hunter and is used to the sounds of shots. also it just occurred to me that it's odd that general zaroff and ivan are just on an island alone? do they have ulterior motives or what? i mean obviously not ivan because of his condition but general zaroff, he doesn't seem right to me. "my whole life has been one prolonged hunt. i went into the army--it was expected of noblemen's sons--and for a time commanded a division of cossack cavalry, but my real interest was always the hunt. i have hunted every kind of game in every land. it would be impossible for me to tell you how many animals i have killed." congrats ig? "i had to invent a new animal to hunt," i don't like where this is going. zaroff is so suspicious and just off-putting in general. "life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong, and, if needs be, taken by the strong. the weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure. i am strong. why should i not use my gift? if i wish to hunt, why should i not? i hunt the scum of the earth: sailors from tramp ships--lassars, blacks, chinese, whites, mongrels--a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them." the casual rascim?? training school? pupils? is he really acting like training them, feeding them and giving them time to exercise and build muscle makes any of this fair, moral or humane? he's acting like they should be grateful for it. rainsford can't even try to leave and escape because of the hounds and where would he even go? zaroff and ivan know this place better than anyone. "you'll find this game worth playing. your brain against mine. your woodcraft against mine. your strength and stamina against mine. outdoor chess! and the stake is not without value, eh?" this is insanity. "why had the general smiled? why had he turned back?" he knew that rainsford was hiding there and that's why he deliberately blew a ring of smoke there. this is so scary aum. what if he gets his hunting tools and rifle so he can have more fun with it? "the general was playing with him! the general was saving him for another day's sport! the cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. then it was that rainsford knew the full meaning of terror." sounds like a great time to effectively crash out. "he had never slept in a better bed, rainsford decided." he won by using his hunt methods from across the world, focusing on the one from uganda to drive the hounds away from him and he effectively outsmarted general zaroff. oh shit so he basically was like it isn't over until i say and then murdered zaroff and slept in his bed without a worry in the world. cold. the way zaroff was so delighted to find that rainsford survived was gross, eveytime i think or imagine him, i can only see him as albert einstein with a curly curved moustache and it freaks me out. this was a nice, quick but horrific read. this sounds like a case stephanie soo would cover on rotten mango. reminds me somewhat of the culling in hunting adeline hut obviously more different than the same and the case of robert hansen. at first i was a bit unsure of where this was heading but then it actually started to go somewhere and intrigued me.”
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