San Francisco and the author Jack London

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What was San Francisco like when Jack London (the author of THE CALL OF THE WILD) lived there?

-- Katherine Smith (h2ogirl@seanet.com), May 22, 2002

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I've said it before and I'll say it again:

Jack London has really boring stories!! I know not how anyone could like him!!!!!!!

Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.

-- King Sean M. Hall II (seanmhall14@hotmail.com), December 10, 2002.


In the grey little back street in Kennington,SE London where I lived as a ten year old boy,the Yukon stories were for me a revelation and a promise of hope for a glorious world of wild nature that one day I might find.He was my idol of manhood,and I do believe that for many city kids as well as myself he became a beacon of hope that lit up our shabby lives and contributed to our being able to rise above our mundane worlds and aim for a better life and a better world than the ones we had been born into.

-- Leslie W.Pole (`lesliepole@cwct.net), October 23, 2003.

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