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Re: Anyone here like Jack London's writing?
Mink #8520322 01/28/14
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Originally Posted by Mink
Must have read White Fang as a kid at least a half dozen times and Call of the Wild another 3-4.

Thanks for sharing the link.



If you liked Call of the Wild then get Sea-Wolf !

Sea-Wolf is little talked about or read but it is a GREAT Jack London book.

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Re: Anyone here like Jack London's writing?
atvalaska #8520580 01/28/14
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I love the Ballad of Sam McGee!!! Haven't read it since junior high, but those first 2 verses are burned into my memory!!

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Awesome!! Thanks for posting. I can use this stuff in class!!

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Re: Anyone here like Jack London's writing?
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Originally Posted by DocRocket
I love the Ballad of Sam McGee!!! Haven't read it since junior high, but those first 2 verses are burned into my memory!!


Memorized may of Service's poems, his verse of an ambulance driver is good as well. Like the Haggis of Pvt. McPhee!
And Bill the Bomber!

Okay back to Jack.....

Great memories reading "The Call of the Wild!"

"Old longings nomadic leap, chafing at customs chains;
Again from the brumal sleep awakens the verine strain"

(Postscript, Anyone recite any verse of the Great Bard of Scotland on the 25th???? After my attempt at Tam o' Shanter I was told to please be quiet. I was scaring the grandkids)

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Re: Anyone here like Jack London's writing?
kaywoodie #8521586 01/28/14
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Always liked Jack London from when I was a wee lad on. Loved the adventure and later on the man himself . So anyway a few years back I happened to be in Napa Valley and driving around saw the sign for Glen Ellen and Jack's ranch. Couldn't believe it. I wasn't there to see it just ran into it. Saw his old ranch house the house his wife had built and the n walked down to his Wolf house and walked around. What a grand place it would have been. The amount of money he sunk into was staggering. Then the fire and all that stand today is the way it was when it happened. It would have been something even today.
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Re: Anyone here like Jack London's writing?
kaywoodie #8521916 01/28/14
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Originally Posted by kaywoodie


(Postscript, Anyone recite any verse of the Great Bard of Scotland on the 25th???? After my attempt at Tam o' Shanter I was told to please be quiet. I was scaring the grandkids)


My mentor in medical school could've been called a "professional highlander" if he wasn't such a decent man and incredible Infectious Diseases specialist. He was also the best lecturer I have ever listened to. His "Wee Beasties" lecture was a tour de force!!

Anyways, Ken would gather any & all of us who had even a nano-drop of Scots blood on the 25th, and we'd drink Famous Grouse and recite Robbie Burns... it got pretty messy well before midnight each year... all I can recite from memory now is:

"A man's a man for a' that..."

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