Jungle Book (The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling)

Member Name: doozer0

Product:	The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling
Date:	18/07/00 (70 review reads)
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Advantages: nice cartoon

Disadvantages: difficult to read

I think I may be the only person in the entire world who doesn't like the Jungle Book.

Okay, so the kids versions of it are all well and good, but the book itself is a chore to read. The different chapters seem to be entirely unrelated.

The book follows an illogical structure, and is very difficult to read. Not only is it drenched in references to Kipling's own time and society, but it is not easy to read in, for example, the way Dickens is, and quite frankly, I wasn't drawn into the story at all.

Whilst the cartoon adaption is fun, easy going and follows a story, the book seems to do the complete opposite. Quite frankly, if I'd had the choice, I'd have stopped reading after the first two chapters, but I had to read it for a uni course, so I couldn't.

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