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    The Most Dangerous Game
    The Most Dangerous Game
    The Most Dangerous Game
    Audiobook58 minutes

    The Most Dangerous Game

    Written by Richard Connell

    Narrated by B. J. Harrison

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    A mysterious island, shrouded in fear, evil, and darkness. Here the amoral General Zaroff hunts. And what, you ask, is the most dangerous game? It is the manner and substance of his nightly killings.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherB.J. Harrison
    Release dateAug 13, 2007
    ISBN9781937091545
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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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    • 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
      Loved this short story! It was the ultimate in suspense. Who was going to survive?
    • 5/5
      Great storytelling! A hunting thriller, a classic story, man hunts man
    • 5/5
      Loved this short story! It was the ultimate in suspense. Who was going to survive?
    • 4/5
      It was ok. It’s hard to rate a classic when I’ve been raised on media that uses this same genre and it’s not new to me. Gotta give props to the original. The voice actor was spot on! Most public domain free audiobooks have sub par narration but this one nailed it.
    • 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.
    • 2/5
      A great classic
    • 5/5
      Sanger Rainsford, a hunter from New York, falls off a yacht and ends up on Ship-Trap Island. An island where one man, General Zaroff, hunts "the most dangerous game". Unfortunately for Rainsford...A great little, short story! I see that the folks who wrote the first Rambo movie took notes from this! And that last sentence! Perfect!
    • 4/5
      The Most Dangerous Game is about a big-game hunter from New York, Sanger Rainsford, who falls overboard from a yacht and is able to swim to an isolated island. There he meets Russian aristocrat, General Zaroff who lets him know his new hunting pleasure, humans. And that Sanger Rainsford is next.

      I've been binging a manga series where humans are hunted for game and food by demons and my boyfriend brought up "the original" short story that had that concept. Hence, why I read this.

      I enjoyed it. I wish there were a bit more details to the hunt. We got a few details here and there, but I wish I was able to read more about Sanger Rainsford's inner thoughts and his worries and such. Either way, it wrapped up well and I'm glad I read it.
    • 4/5
      The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell was first published in Collier’s magazine in 1924. Considered by many to be an example of short story perfection, this classic story features a big game hunter, Sanger Rainsford, who falls off a yacht in swims to what seemed to be a deserted island in the Caribbean, but on the island he meets Colonel Zaroff, a strange Russian aristocrat who spends his time on the island, hunting humans. The Colonel decides that the big game hunter will make an excellent quarry.This short story was apparently inspired by the fashionable hunting safaris in Africa and South America of the 1920s and it has been adapted for film and TV more than once. This O Henry Awarded story is one of a series of short stories that I studied while in high school many years ago, but I think it stands the test of time quite well. The Most Dangerous Game is, on one level a story of adventure and drama, but it definitely raises questions about man’s need to hunt to acquire trophies. The struggle between these two hunters brings up many questions such as, is hunting strictly for the sport of it, ever justified. While the title refers to the fact that man is the most dangerous animal, it also makes reference to the game that is played out by Rainsford and Zaroff. What makes this story so memorable is the ambiguous ending that could be interpreted in a number of ways.
    • 4/5
      Interesting, thought provoking and fun read.
    • 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?
    • 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.
    • 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
    • 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.
    • 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
    • 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.