3.5
The Most Dangerous Game
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After falling overboard from a yacht, Sanger Rainsford swims to a nearby island. There General Zaroff, a big-game hunter who knows of Rainsford from published accounts of his hunting snow leopards in Tibet, invites him to dinner. Zaroff is bored of hunting because it no longer challenges him; he has moved to Ship-Trap Island in order to capture shipwrecked sailors. Any captives who can elude Zaroff, his manservant Ivan, and a pack of hunting dogs for three days is set free. No one has yet lasted that long, although a couple of sailors had come close. Zaroff offers sailors a choice—should they decline to be hunted, they will be handed over to Ivan, who had once been official knouter for The Great White Czar. Rainsford denounces this as barbarism, but has no way out. He reluctantly agrees to be hunted...
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3.5
“"God makes some men poets. Some He makes kings, some beggars. Me He made a hunter. My hand was made for the trigger…”
After falling from a yacht, big game hunter Sanger Rainsford becomes stranded on Ship-Trap Island before falling victim to another evil.
General Zaroff, a Cossack from the old Russia, has hunted nearly every big game in the world. Consequentially bored with the tactics of each animal, Zaroff finds a new big game to hunt after buying Ship-Trap Island, one that can reason, one that’s ardently… human…
I first read this story in Junior High, followed by the classic 1932 film. So I decided to follow the example again. Again reading the story in one sitting, and again watching the classic film. It was all very nostalgic.
As prose, I fully understand why this is Richard Connell’s only known work. There were too many times I thought the word choices and sentences were a bit choppy and sloppy, and the characters, though there are few, fell flat. But as a story, I love it. A guilty pleasure indeed!”
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