![]() ![]() ![]() He was also the writer who created the stereotype of the drunk writer and he coined the phrase "seeing pink elephants. I highly recommend this book that provides insight into one of our greatest writers. A saving grace is that he did more living and writing than people twice his age. I also feel the loss of such a brilliant writer. I listen to his ramblings with sadness knowing that he may have been drunk or "jingled" at the time he wrote his words. We now know that he died prematurely from late stage alcoholism and kidney failure at the age of forty. He boasts that luck and a strong constitution prevented him from becoming one. To me, the saddest thing in "John Barleycorn" was listening to London's argument that he was not an alcoholic. What was one of the most memorable moments of Jack London: John Barleycorn? I was inspired to read this book by visiting his old rendezvous, Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon in Oakland. Given that I live in the same San Francisco Bay Area where he lived, I enjoy listening to his descriptions of familiar places as they were one hundred years ago. John Griffith 'Jack' London (born John Griffith Chaney, Janu November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. This memoir was a long, cool drink which "jingled" my brain, as London is wont to say. Writing is my drink of choice, my addiction, and Jack London offers some of the finest writing around. I would listen to Jack London's "John Barleycorn" again not for his musings on alcoholism, but for his writing. ![]() Would you listen to Jack London: John Barleycorn again? Why? ![]()
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