Just finished this after getting it recommended in a nautical thread last week. I really enjoyed it. To whomever recommended it, thank you. Anyway, what are /lit/'s thoughts on Jack London?

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Anonymous Mon Dec 16 10:56:02 2013 No.4374630 [Reply] [Original]

Just finished this after getting it recommended in a nautical thread last week. I really enjoyed it.

To whomever recommended it, thank you.

Anyway, what are /lit/'s thoughts on Jack London?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 16 11:07:02 2013 No.4374656 I thought The Call of the Wild was meh, The Star Rover was kind of bad. I'm not a huge fan, and probably won't be reading any more of his works.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 16 11:10:01 2013 No.4374662 >>4374630 he was a fucking plagiarist

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 16 13:50:42 2013 No.4375062 bump

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 16 13:53:01 2013 No.4375072 >>4374656 What ho, plebeian?

Anonymous Mon Dec 16 13:59:00 2013 No.4375095

When reading Jack London the main thing to remember is that much of his work, particularly the "advernture" novellas/stories, were written simply as a means of making a living through writing. He'd worked his ass off doing a bunch of shitty jobs and therefore wrote a bunch of shitty stories to make money.

Also, his work can be separated into different themes:

1. Adventure: magazine stories

2. Philosophical Adventure: Call of the Wild, White Fang, Seawolf, To Build a Fire, Batard

3. Sci-fi: The Shadow and the Flash, etc

4. Non-Fiction Political: Essays, The Road, People of the Abyss

5. Fictional Political: The Iron Heel

6. Roman a Clef (semi-auto_bio): Martin Eden, John Barleycorn (plus some sailing novellas/stories0

Anonymous Mon Dec 16 14:22:00 2013 No.4375169

>>4374630
>To whomever recommended it, thank you.
You're welcome! I was the one who recommended it and Cruise of the Dazzler. It's been about 8 years since I read either, and Sea-Wolf is definitely the better of the two, but Dazzler is pretty short.

>>4375095
This is accurate. London has a few great works that stand the test of time, but the majority of his work (and holy shit there's a lot of it) isn't anything special.

Anonymous Mon Dec 16 14:56:03 2013 No.4375303

>>4375169
>You're welcome! I was the one who recommended it and Cruise of the Dazzler. It's been about 8 years since I read either, and Sea-Wolf is definitely the better of the two, but Dazzler is pretty short.
Oh, thanks again! I'm reading Homage to Catalonia next, then an attempt on Moby Dick, and then I'll be reading Cruise of the Dazzler.

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