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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 20, 2004 13:26:15 GMT -5
Short story by Jack London.
Man...that's good writin'. Sadly, literary critics/academics don't consider him to be one of the greatest writers in America even though many writers have been influenced by his works. What do academics know? I still think White Fang, The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, and a bunch of his short stories are absolutely dazzling. The "wall of light"? Man, how does he come up with that stuff??
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Post by 7thWoman on Oct 20, 2004 16:27:33 GMT -5
It is a great story, and London is a great writer. He really seems to like dogs. Next on my London list is Sea Wolf. I didn't know that literary folks frowned upon him. It makes me respect him even more. Academia seems to love Herman Melville. This is a man who spent an entire chapter in Moby Dick trying to argue that a whale is a fish and any argument that it might be a mammal is complete nonsense and should be disregarded.
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Post by gooseberry on Oct 20, 2004 18:15:27 GMT -5
I never read Moby Dick.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 22, 2004 16:39:58 GMT -5
It is a great story, and London is a great writer. He really seems to like dogs. Next on my London list is Sea Wolf. I didn't know that literary folks frowned upon him. It makes me respect him even more. Academia seems to love Herman Melville. The same goes for Ernest Hemingway. His short stories are still considered masterpieces but his luster as a novelist has gone down considerably. He is now not known as a great novel writer. It kinda made sense to me. I read "The Sun Also Rises," "The Old Man and the Sea," and "A Farewell to Arms," and I never thought they were at the same level as some of the other masters.
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