Jack London is such s fine story teller! Lasting through the ages. Such beautiful, gripping, death defying human experiences. I am in love with him though his words. The Sea Wolf is a fine juxtaposition of working class and those who never lifted a finger, between moral fiber and what must be done, between man and woman, and on and on with the perceived and then destroyed binary opposites. An excellent story!

I think this two-star rating is misleading. I'd like to give the first half four stars and give the second half one.

While the first half is an engaging story of a thin-skinned literary critic being adopted by the brutal seal-poaching captain and Nietzchean titan Wolf Larsen, the second half devolves into an utterly boring domestic romance that reads as utterly false when compared with the aggressively homoerotic relationship between Wolf and Van Weydan in the books first 150 pages.

Jack London copped out to avoid making his conservative Victorian readership uncomfortable. So, two stars.

There are many grammatical errors in this book. Mr. London goes in and out of the present tense, misuses quotes, and creates characters that I don't really care about.

Overall a fun story, but I prefer the realism of Jack London's tales of nature.

Great book on the difference between living intellectually, and really living.