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Legolas the elf
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Posted: Thu 06 Jul , 2006 4:31 am
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Martin Eden, I read now. I like. It romantic, yet written by a Man's man. I like. I relate. Romance from man's point of view...or, man's EGO's point of view. :D Ruth is a hot lady....above Martin's class. Martin is ignorant sailor. Becomes smart...self-teaches self. Now he strong man and smart man in one....the best of both worlds. Passionate, and sensitive, too...and will power like iron.
London was an alcoholic...I think that's why he's so damned good at writing. Somethin' sublime about those sensitive, grandiose, and childish natures...


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If I'd read less Jack London, I probably wouldn't have ended up in Alaska. Life would be very different for me. But I don't blame him. :roll:


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I love Jack London books :love: My dad had a huuuuuuuge collection of them when I was younger, and I spent an entire summer reading through them again and again :D


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I only ever read "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" but I loved them both.


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Wooohooo! I'm not alone!

Yes...I read Call of the Wild in middle school...didn't really read it....

Read the Sea Wolf a couple of times in the past several years...it's a good one.
I read a London biography "Sailor on Horseback"...i think it was.
I attempted The Iron Fist or whatever it's called...the book about socialism, but it was too boring...too wordy...too political.
The short story To Build a Fire is good.

I want to read People of the Abyss...the book London wrote after he got famous, and went to London, England to study the street class....


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Love "Call of the Wild".

This was one of my favorite books in elementary school and junior high. I read it many times.

I've never read anything else by him.

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Still reading Martin Eden.....enjoying it. *swoons for Ruth* :love:

I like London because he actually EXPERIENCED what he wrote about, before he wrote about it. He was a man of the imagination AND the world about him. He could right imaginatively...even fantastically, but he preferred to focus in on what he knew thoroughly: the raw simplicity of adventure.


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The head of the writing department at my uni has a somewhat creepy obsession with Jack London. He recently got his annotated edition of Martin Eden published, has lectured at Oxford on London (mwaha, punnish irony!), writes for a Jack London literary newsletter, and references London at least once every three weeks in a lecture. I'm of the opinion they should just get a room.

As for the writing, love White Fang, To Build a Fire still spooks me, and I'm sure I've read Call of the Wild, but I can't remember a thing about it. :neutral:


Some online-London reading at Litrix reading room.

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Lady_of_Rohan wrote:
The head of the writing department at my uni has a somewhat creepy obsession with Jack London. He recently got his annotated edition of Martin Eden published, has lectured at Oxford on London (mwaha, punnish irony!), writes for a Jack London literary newsletter, and references London at least once every three weeks in a lecture. I'm of the opinion they should just get a room.
Sort of like those people with the Tolkien obsession.

Of course, some of them are pervy Hobbit fanciers, so the idea of getting a room more readily comes to mind.

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