"To build a fire" by Jack London

[cory]

It was always one of my favorite short stories. I didn't realize a short film had been made out of it. Here it is for those who may be interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBB06RLmCcU#t=464

"And then it happened…"

 

[cory]

Well I watched most of that, its interesting but not as good as reading the short story.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I visited jack London's northern California residence once, now a state park. Jack wasn't there...or he might have been buried there, can't recall.

 

[cory]

Any of you blokes ever read the story?

 

[Pelorus]

I'm way behind on my story reading.
Am first gonna get up to date on French military history re. Last of the Mohicans with General Gilbert Lafeyette.

 

[Steve Mack]

Check out The Battle of Hastings when you finish that. Ed might have forgotten that one.


Never heard of it Cory but I found it. http://www.jacklondons.net/buildafire.html I'll read it in a day or so, got a bit on at the moment.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I haven't read it, but Hemingway's, "Old man and the Sea", certainly made an impression when read as a youngun. Some great story of futility there.

 

[Stumper]

Yes read it. Jack London was a great writer. Weird that so many of the "adventure writers" I read as a kid(London, Hemingway. Ruark) died young or committed suicide.

 

[r0ck1r0ck2]

middle school reading but it comes up in my memory a lot.

i love winter hiking and building a fire in the snow always brings back this story.

 

[DMc]

To Build a Fire and Call of the Wild by Jack London were good reads and, actually, had a large impact on me as a kid.

 

[stig]

Same here.

 

[Pelorus]

I think a lot of youse would really enjoy a book by James Campbell called "The Final Frontiersman"
Non fiction.
Google "Heimo Korth" if interested.
You know you've got a great book if you can pick it up a year later and still get tons of enjoyment out of it.
Robert Mason's "Chickenhawk" (Vietnam) fits into that category, imo.

 

[cory]

I'm way behind on my story reading.
Am first gonna get up to date on French military history re. Last of the Mohicans with General Gilbert Lafeyette.

"Fire" is a quick read, maybe an hour, if memory serves.

I haven't read it, but Hemingway's, "Old man and the Sea", certainly made an impression when read as a youngun. Some great story of futility there.

Different authors and styles of course, but you liked the former so I think you'd like the latter too.

To Build a Fire and Call of the Wild by Jack London were good reads and, actually, had a large impact on me as a kid.

Same here, too

I think a lot of youse would really enjoy a book by James Campbell called "The Final Frontiersman"
Non fiction.
Google "Heimo Korth" if interested.

Ha, that's on my long list, I have the book. What is Chickenhawk about, specifically?

 

[Pelorus]

"Chickenhawk" (nonfiction) based on Mason's experience in Vietnam war as a Huey pilot.
Subject matter completely unrelated to Jack London's genre; please forgive derail.

 

[cory]

No derail at all. Thx.

 

[Burnham]

Any of you blokes ever read the story?

Oh, yes. A strong memory it is even today, too. A great story.

 

[Steve Mack]

Read it.

You can read it in that link I posted earlier or 197 of his stories here if anyone is interested. http://www.jacklondons.net/writings/ShortStories/index.html