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    <body><![CDATA[I always believed that Jack London kind of sucked. Like most people, I read 'To Build a Fire' and <em>Call of the Wild</em> in school, and was bored senseless, wishing the hero would just freeze to death faster. <br/><br/><em>John Barleycorn</em> proved me completely wrong. In it, London is funny and sharp and angr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1179821">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ironic that a book read in preparation for a wine trip to Sonoma would make me understand Prohibition, but there you have it.  I get it.  Jack London vividly explores a world before TV, before Radio, before the Internet when the local saloon was, for the working classes, their entertainment, their F...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74746238">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If this book doesn't make you want to lift a pint or two and get loose, well...you are a stronger human than I. This one always makes me thirsty...even though it is supposed to show the deleterious effects of alcohol.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Basically London's autobiography (as a pirate, arctic sealer, hobo riding the rails, klondike gold miner, south seas explorer) told through all of the times that he got the most wasted.  At times very entertaining, but then I also got frustrated with the fact that he never takes responsibility for h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23350777">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting picture of Bay Area debauchery from a hundred years ago. I wouldn't really describe this as a cautionary tale against drinking as each time London goes on a severe bender something epic and interesting happens. What London seems to lament most is aging. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[London effectively describes our ambivalent relationship to booze. (For example, he gets tanked on election day after voting for women's suffrage...which he did because women would force prohibition.) The confusing mix of glorification and disapproval was strangely satisfying. It's all remarkably--m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54368865">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An alchoholic adventurer's memoir hits hights in places and lows in others - a bit like a drinking bout itself really. Brilliantly written and mostly enjoyable.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[you should think about your relationship with drinking]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. I mean, really.... wow. Even if he made half of the stories in this memoir up, Jack London still lived one crazy life. He's definitely an artists who chose to collect life experiences wherever he could. Some of the passages in this book totally blew me away. It was funny, smart, and really tigh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8514722">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jack London and alcoholism. Sounds like a good combination. London walks through some of the major transitions in his life and describes how alcohol slowly crept its way in and nearly kills him on a number of occasions. But he also describes how the pub scene bonds him to his friends and introduces ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22198185">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not much I can say about this book will capture it.  It is unlike any other book I've ever read.  In short, it is the most eloquent and thoughtful writing on alcohol I've ever read.  This book is too good to miss for anyone.  If you're a Jack London fan, you must read this.  If not, you will become ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17072153">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lengthy recounting of like as a savage boozer by Jack London. Essential reading if a bit repetitive and long in the tooth; one gets more of a sense of mindless repetition then victory in a struggle against the self, but hey, at least its honest.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[white logic ... you know its true. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7437.Naked_Lunch_The_Restored_Text" title="Naked Lunch  The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs">naked lunch</a> is superfluous.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Difficult for me to spend time with this tormented idealist.  Not a pleasant read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[jack london is master of the english language yet this piece is clearly propaganda, searching for no meaning in this work it is all catered.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Want to read about Jack London getting hammered on ships and in bars at the age of 11?  This is your book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this, London made me reconsider my own drinking. the maggots are swarming!!!]]></body>
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