Steven J. Kasdin
Autor de The Collected Jack London: Thirty-Six Stories / Four Complete Novels / A Memoir
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Steven J. Kasdin
The Collected Jack London: Thirty-Six Stories / Four Complete Novels / A Memoir (1991) — Editor — 288 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
Miembros
Reseñas
The Collected Jack London: Thirty-Six Stories/Four… por Steven J. Kasdin
My interest began with the Call of the Wild, first book I read as a young person.
Five stars for "Sea Wolf".
Four stars for "White Fang" and "Call of the Wild", but add a fifth star if you really like dogs or wolves or the Yukon. He seems to have learned a lot about all three during his one winter there.
Four stars for "John Barleycorn", but add a fifth (star, that is) if alcohol is important to you. Look here to find London's forthright and disenchanted view on the meaning of life.
Three stars for "Martin Eden"; see my review under that title.
Two or three stars for most of the short stories; those few touching on his experiences as an oyster pirate around San Francisco Bay and his tramping across the country were more interesting. I couldn't get through but half the rest.
London made it a point to write 1000 words a day. Would that he had more often sacrificed quantity for quality, but he had to pay the bills.
I have to greatly admire the man for having overcome a messed-up family, curtailed education, poverty and several diseases in reaching success.… (más)
Four stars for "White Fang" and "Call of the Wild", but add a fifth star if you really like dogs or wolves or the Yukon. He seems to have learned a lot about all three during his one winter there.
Four stars for "John Barleycorn", but add a fifth (star, that is) if alcohol is important to you. Look here to find London's forthright and disenchanted view on the meaning of life.
Three stars for "Martin Eden"; see my review under that title.
Two or three stars for most of the short stories; those few touching on his experiences as an oyster pirate around San Francisco Bay and his tramping across the country were more interesting. I couldn't get through but half the rest.
London made it a point to write 1000 words a day. Would that he had more often sacrificed quantity for quality, but he had to pay the bills.
I have to greatly admire the man for having overcome a messed-up family, curtailed education, poverty and several diseases in reaching success.… (más)
All his best work in one spot. This collection goes beyond his life in Alaska and Call of the Wild. It also includes my favorite, "John Barleycorn." That novel was about London's life long fight with alcoholism starting with downing a small bucket of beer as a small child.
Ever since I read The Call of the Wild and In a Far Country, Jack London has inhabited my imagination. Not long ago I visited Alaska a few times, both in winter and summer - though winter was undeniably a special time for me since it brought back all these memories of reading Jack London as a teen back in hot, steamy Brazil. Funny how life turns out. I love this book and highly recommend it.
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Miembros
- 288
- Popularidad
- #81,142
- Valoración
- 4.3
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 4