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    The Most Dangerous Game (Rediscovered Books)
    The Most Dangerous Game (Rediscovered Books)
    The Most Dangerous Game (Rediscovered Books)
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    The Most Dangerous Game (Rediscovered Books)

    By Richard Connell

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    'The Most Dangerous Game' is a tense story pitting man against man and the hunted against the hunter. Sanger Rainsford falls from a yacht on route to Rio de Janeiro to hunt jaguars. He manages to swim to a nearby island, but there the hunter becomes the hunted.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRediscovered Books
    Release dateJan 4, 2015
    ISBN9781633846159
    The Most Dangerous Game (Rediscovered Books)
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    Richard Connell

    Richard Connell (1893-1949) was an American author and journalist who is considered one of the most popular short-story writers of his time. His works appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's magazine.

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    • 2/5
      this book was a waste of my time. i would like to take a moment to tell everyone i know not to read it. This book was pointless in some many was. never read this book
    • 4/5
      Interesting, thought provoking and fun read.
    • 2/5
      It's a classic plot, but I think to a modern audience the execution (!) is unconvincing. It is more Biggles Boys Own Adventure than Predator.

      My enjoyment of the final reveal at the end was spoilt by the cumbersome construction and wording of the last paragraphs, and the fact that by implication our hero's moral compass evidently swung 180 degrees in a matter of a few pages - and it seems the author expects us to swallow that without question so that we can enjoy the surprise twist that would not work otherwise.
    • 5/5
      Loved this short story! It was the ultimate in suspense. Who was going to survive?
    • 2/5
      I'm (re)visiting some classics in 2012. I felt like this story was on fast forward, like the author didn't take his time telling the story, only focusing on the good parts, and even the good parts were hurried through. There's SO much more to tell and can be told! Also, what happened to Whitney?
    • 5/5
      Loved this short story! It was the ultimate in suspense. Who was going to survive?
    • 3/5
      This book, The Most Dangerous Game, By Richard Connell...was a complete waste of my time. All it was talking about is a practical SERIAL KILLER named General Zaroff, he's Russian. He brings a whole bunch of 'low life's' (In his opinion) to his secret "Island" (That's not creepy or anything) and then tells them he's going to Hunt them and then shoots and kills them. This guy named Rainsford is idiotic enough to stand on the rail of his yacht..and surprisingly enough (sarcasm), he falls off it and into the water! He swims onto this "Island" and meets the Russian Serial Killer, and he says he's going to hunt Rainsford so he does, but Rainsford outsmarted him and won, and then killed General Zaroff...Don't ever read this story...It's so terrible...just...just give up.
    • 2/5
      I would never read this book again. I would rather slam my finger in a car door. A dumb Brit falls off a dumb poopy yacht and swims to an island where he hears a pistol shot. WHO WOULD SWIM TOWARD A GUN SHOT?????? I wouldn't. I would really prefer there was not a sequel.
    • 2/5
      I recommend this book to who ever want to imagine dogs, a giant diing... i dont really recomend this.
    • 5/5
      i love this book every body should read it me 3 moth year old son is reading it and he likes it
    • 4/5
      Possibly the most famous hunter/hunted tales, the Most Dangerous Game (this edition weirdly eliminates "the" from the title) is one of those stories everyone knows before reading them.Which, of course, makes its first three quarters endless and clumsy, as the narration endlessly beats around the bush of what game Zaroff hunts on his tropical island (hint : not actually tigers). Even if you dismiss this reproach as somewhat unfair, the plot/exposition ratio remains rather unsatisfactory, the tension never really builds up and it's too damn short.Otherwise I liked it.
    • 5/5
      My favorite short story of all time and one of the best ever written. Memorable and compelling story of a man who ends up on an island of hunters and becomes their prey.
    • 3/5
      "The Most Dangerous Game" is the tale of a shipwrecked sailor who thought he had saved his life by swimming to this island. Little did he know, an insane human-hunter resided there. The man takes sailors and gives them a start to hide somewhere on the island, then for three days he looks, or hunts, for them. The sailors only chance of living now is to win the hunt. But he ends up taking it a step further than that.
    • 3/5
      The book is about a hunter who is stranded on a island. He finds a house where an old man lives. The man tells him that he has heard of him, and that he is a hunter, too. He later tells him that he is hunting men, and asks if he would like to join him. When he refuses, he becomes the prey.
    • 2/5
      I personally thought this story was kinda boring.It really just went on and on.I dont really like hunting and outdoors stuff so i didnt get into it. To tell you the truth i dont even remeber the book so it must have not been interestingg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!isnt that sadd =[but if your into hunting and stuff then you should try out this book.
    • 2/5
      Rainsford falls off a boat and swims to the island. Rainsford knocks on the only house on the island. Zaroff tells Rainsford about the "game". Zaroff tells Rainsford that he is really good at hunting and no one has won yet. Zaroff says that after three days and he has not found Rainsford then Rainsford has won.
    • 2/5
      such a tree huger story that i really dont like. it was kind of sad when rainford died. i liked the setting but the auther could have mad it a little better. it was sad when i heard about the dog who got killed by sand.
    • 4/5
      The book was clever and very mysterious in how the plotline was made. You really diidn't know what was going to happen until it did. It was kind of digusting in a way of how the hunter thought and believed. The characters were very different from normal. The ending was good and ended the way it should have.
    • 1/5
      It was very boring and I thought it was really creepy. I don't like this type of book. I couldn't even consentrate when I on what I was reading because it was so boring. I wouldn't reccomend this book to anyone. I don't even remember what this book was about...
    • 3/5
      Its about a boy who loves to hunt, named Rainsford. Rainsford falls out of this boat and swims to the an island. On this island there is a man named Zaroff. Zaroff hunts on this island, but he does not hunt animals, he hunts humans. Now Rainford is the prey and point of view will change forever of hunting.
    • 3/5
      i thought it was suspenseful. i thought a jungle on an island was a good setting. in the biggiing i didnt think he was a guy who hunted men. this book had a good ending. it wasnt kinda confusing in some parts.
    • 1/5
      Rainsford arrives at and island and looks around. After a while he meets Zarroff. Zarroff talks about hunting humans, which Rainsford is afraid of. After a while Rainsfor realizes he is Zarroff's next target. At the end, Rainsford kills Zarroff.
    • 2/5
      A great classic
    • 5/5
      Loved this short story! It was the ultimate in suspense. Who was going to survive?
    • 5/5
      The short story that inspired books and films as diverse as Battle Royale, The Hunger Games and The Beast Must Die. And I could read a hundred stories like it. There's something endlessly appealing about a remote tropical island, a lone mansion, and its brilliant, menacing owner (I must read The Island of Dr. Moreau). There's a palpable sense of dread from the very first line as hunter Sanger Rainsford is washed up on a remote Caribbean island: an island whose owner, General Zaroff, hunts the deadliest game of all. Zaroff's dialogue is wonderful, erudite, cultured, unhurried, and full of implicit threat. Connell might even better at writing this sort of speech than Ian Fleming – though this is exactly the sort of adventure story Fleming would have read and drawn on. "I refuse to believe that so modern and civilised a young man as you seem to be harbours romantic ideas about the value of human life," Zaroff tells Rainsford. "Surely your experiences in the war–" "Did not make me condone cold-blooded murder," his guest responds.So blunt a statement as Zaroff's is chilling in its logic. The horror of the First World War is unimaginable. An entire generation fed into a meat grinder. Of course civilisation just moved on; how else would it face something like that? An open screaming wound in humanity.It's interesting to contrast The Most Dangerous Game with The Thirty-Nine Steps, which I've also just finished reading. In Buchan's novel, set on the eve of the war, the chase is a great game, all derring-do, witty disguises and jingoism. Here, in the conflict's shadow, the chase is desperate and the threat of death implacable, unerring and seemingly inevitable.The Most Dangerous Game may be one of the best short stories I have ever read. It is about man's arrogance. It is about the fragility of civilisation. It is about being alone in the forest, with someone on your heels.

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    The Most Dangerous Game (Rediscovered Books) - Richard Connell

    The Most Dangerous Game

    By Richard Connell

    ©2014 Rediscovered Books

    All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission except for brief quotations for review purposes only.

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    ISBN 13: 978-1-63384-615-9

    OFF THERE to the right—somewhere—is a large island, said Whitney. It’s rather a mystery—

    What island is it? Rainsford asked.

    The old charts call it `Ship-Trap Island,’ Whitney replied. A suggestive name, isn’t it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don’t know why. Some superstition—

    Can’t see it, remarked Rainsford, trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht.

    You’ve good eyes, said Whitney, with a laugh, and I’ve seen you pick off a moose moving in the brown fall bush at four hundred yards, but even you can’t see four miles or so through a moonless Caribbean night.

    Nor four yards, admitted Rainsford. Ugh! It’s like moist black velvet.

    It will be light enough in Rio, promised Whitney. We should make it in a few days. I hope the jaguar guns have come from Purdey’s. We should have some good hunting up the Amazon. Great sport, hunting.

    The best sport in the world, agreed Rainsford.

    For the hunter, amended Whitney. Not for the jaguar.

    Don’t talk rot, Whitney, said Rainsford. You’re a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?

    Perhaps the jaguar does, observed Whitney.

    Bah! They’ve no understanding.

    Even so, I rather think they understand one thing—fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death.

    Nonsense, laughed Rainsford. This hot weather is making you soft, Whitney. Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes—the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are hunters. Do you think we’ve passed that island yet?

    I can’t tell in the dark. I hope so.

    Why? asked Rainsford.

    The place has a reputation—a bad one.

    Cannibals? suggested Rainsford.

    Hardly. Even cannibals wouldn’t live in such a God-forsaken place. But it’s gotten into sailor lore, somehow. Didn’t you notice that the crew’s nerves seemed a bit jumpy today?

    "They were a bit strange, now you mention it. Even Captain

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