Jim Kjelgaard

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by 8ballrollin

Jack London was clearly a Christopher McCandless wannabe.

I would kick your ass right now if you said that to my face.

Jack London would gut punch you like a piece of dough on a stick.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

for your younger kids, i.e. 5th grade or below:

http://www.amazon.com/Dog-Called-Kit...10/ref=ed_oe_p

This became a "hit" book when I was a kid, and won some awards. In the tradition of tales of dogs and their young companions such as Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller.

Great. I don't really feel like having to explain to my younger kids (again) why the dog dies.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

No. My favorite book from a dog's POV is "The Call of the Wild." I read it at least four times and still remember it so well. I think in many ways it laid down a matrix for my entire life. I often see myself as Buck.

I first read it as a very young lad. I remember my fourth grade teacher calling me a liar when I said I'd read it sometime ago. She was a really awful person in many ways.

Anyway, the first time I read it I didn't understand irony. I puzzled for the longest time over that first sentence, "Buck did not read the newspapers." I thought, "Of course, he's a dog. What's the point!" But that opening drew me in, and changed me.

The Call of the Wild is a great book. I first read it in 3rd grade, but my 4th grade teacher didn't call me a liar, as she was my 3rd grade teacher who had given me a copy of it to read the previous year.

I also love London's White Fang.

[8ballrollin]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I would kick your ass right now if you said that to my face.

Jack London would gut punch you like a piece of dough on a stick.

Come on Mike, I cannot believe that you of all people don't see that London was the Krakauer of his generation.

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

The Call of the Wild is a great book. I first read it in 3rd grade, but my 4th grade teacher didn't call me a liar, as she was my 3rd grade teacher who had given me a copy of it to read the previous year.

One of those dumbed down kiddie versions? Not the same thing.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

One of those dumbed down kiddie versions? Not the same thing.

Kiss my ass, SU.

My Mom was a school teacher and had me reading before I started kindergarten. I was reading on a 10th grade level when I was in 3rd grade.

Take your condescending bullshit superiority complex and shove it.

Dickhead.

[YOhio]

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

Kiss my ass, SU.

My Mom was a school teacher and had me reading before I started kindergarten. I was reading on a 10th grade level when I was in 3rd grade.

Take your condescending bullshit superiority complex and shove it.

Dickhead.

lol! IPU has a little fight in him. Must be the Garfield County influence.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

No. My favorite book from a dog's POV is "The Call of the Wild." I read it at least four times and still remember it so well. I think in many ways it laid down a matrix for my entire life. I often see myself as Buck.

I first read it as a very young lad. I remember my fourth grade teacher calling me a liar when I said I'd read it sometime ago. She was a really awful person in many ways.

Anyway, the first time I read it I didn't understand irony. I puzzled for the longest time over that first sentence, "Buck did not read the newspapers." I thought, "Of course, he's a dog. What's the point!" But that opening drew me in, and changed me.

SU is approaching old-man status, his daughter is living on her own, and he could be a grandfather anytime now.

And yet, in his old age, just like his 4th grade teacher, people are still calling him out for lying about what he says he has read, when in fact he has not!

It just goes to show, if we were to somehow meet 4th grade SU right now, we would quickly see him for the shit he was and would stay.