THE ROAD by Jack London - FULL AudioBook | Greatest AudioBooks
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- THE ROAD by Jack London - FULL AudioBook | Greatest AudioBooks - The Road is an autobiographical memoir by Jack London, first published in 1907. It is London's account of his experiences as a hobo in the 1890s, during the worst economic depression the United States had experienced up to that time. He describes his experiences hopping freight trains, "holding down" a train when the crew is trying to throw him off, begging for food and money, and making up extraordinary stories to fool the police. He also tells of the thirty days that he spent in the Erie County Penitentiary, which he described as a place of "unprintable horrors," after being "pinched" (arrested) for vagrancy. In addition, he recounts his time with Kelly's Army, which he joined up with in Wyoming and remained with until its dissolution at the Mississippi River.(Summary adapted from wiki)
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Chapter listing and length:
01 Confession - 00:28:13
02 Holding Her Down - 00:37:42
03 Pictures - 00:25:18
04 "Pinched" - 00:31:45
05 The Pen - 00:30:01
06 Hoboes That Pass in the Night - 00:39:00
07 Road-Kids and Gay-Cats - 00:28:38
08 Two Thousand Stiffs - 00:26:46
09 Bulls - 00:37:23
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I can’t believe that out of 105,000 listeners -less than one per cent gave it a thumbs up-FFS-Anyway-well read mate and thanks for taking the time to read this for our benefit 👍👍
Oh shut up weirdo
It's unfortunate that the first bit, is rather boring.
ill give it a 👍🏻 up, people are fat ,stupid and lazy!
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The Iron Heel ,Star Rover and The Road are fantastic books.
And the Reader on this auido book is amazing excellent.
My Grandparents weren’t that well off during the Great Depression, but I was told that they would get knocks on their door from hobos and Grandma would give them food. It’s interesting how sometimes, people with less are willing to give more than others who have more.
Always. My grandparents had nothing but were the most generous people I have ever known.
Anyone spot my favourite quote? It goes something like: ' Out East where the man chases the job. Out West, where the job chases the man, and the man bucks big!'
Pretty sure that quote is in The Road. And, I checked out a clip of The King of The North Pole for, the exciting sequence on the train.
That bit , made me feel excitement right into the bottom of my belly.
I shouted out loud, in relief and amazement that reading a book could make me feel like that!
Amazing!
I can see why an investor MIGHT invest in a movie. With no hope of a return now !
Very relaxing 🧃☺️
in 82 my mate & i rode a freight train from Sydney Enfield Goods Depot to Kempsey trying to hitch to Fraser Island from Adelaide - did 300 miles in 24 hours the train never went more than 20mph Went through Parramatta tunnel while a bush fire raged overhead the roots hanging down from the roof of the tunnel were all on fire and the whole tunnel was lit up.The train then took us along the Hawkesbury River all this at night it was surreal- it was illegal but the guard let us ride with him in the caboose and we shared a meal & brew with him on his shift - had the doors wide opened -next 2 guards were good & allowed us to stay on - the 4th guard didnt want us and kicked us off when we were approaching Kempsey while the train was moving we jumped off and rolled down the side of the tracks just like in the movies great fun still seems unreal now
my Great uncle lived on the tracks,my mom told me she and her siblings would love when he would come to town !! she said he would bring them all kinds of cool stuff from around North America....
Oh, so true. When I was coming up, we lived 2 blocks from the tracks. In Ind. the 30s and 40s the Hobos ask for food. My mother would give them a sandwich and a piece of pie. Hobos led a hard life.. Thank you for this good book................
clara jones and a thank you to your mum for help ppl like me.
bums
I grew up in a small town in North Dakota, and I too remember hobos stopping by our house, asking for food - although what they usually asked for was work in exchange for food. My mother always gave them both - she’d ask them to sweep the sidewalk or something, not a very arduous task, but she said it was important for their dignity that they do some work in exchange for food. She too offered them a sandwich, a really good sandwich, most likely. I don’t remember very many pies around our house at all, so presumably they didn’t get that. Make a couple of cookies. But at least they didn’t go away hungry.
Mister Tibbs hobo is not a bum. Quite the contrary. They work odd jobs. Bums, do not. There is indeed a distinction.
@@41357500 hahaha. Good one
"Gimme a quarter"! Ye, real humility.
Brilliant!
This great book had a lasting influence on me after I read it at age 13. After high school I lived as a hobo for 7 years. Hobo life was different in London's time, but I still experienced the romance of the road along with the rugged hardships.
I bet you could tell some great stories.
My favourite ever book. The chapter about. Riding a freight train. Fantastic! The most exciting thing ever! It should be a movie. Jack London is a Philosopher. Did you read, The People of The Abyss? It's a bit hurtful to read as a Englishman.
@@MisterSands I can but. Only for a sponge bath ! (joke based on The Simpsons).
@@MrRobertFarr emperior of the north pole is a great movie about hobo life with lee marvine
@@SW-hu7qw okay. I might look out for that.
It sounds quite romantic. However, Jack London. Died, really young! I read that his home burned down. Near San Francisco. Maybe, he had a really tough life?
I think some of the tales are autobiographical. Some, made up. Borrowed.
There is one, where he explores, around The San Francisco bay along with his family. Wife. And daughters maybe.
I get my movies 2nd Hand actually.
I saw Call of The Wild.
It's available from Prism Leisure in the UK as a 2 disc, 4 movie set.
Along with a movie based onSir Arthur Conan Doyle's book.
Also Robert Louis Stevenson's : Treasure Island.
Sure, I am a fan of Adventure !
I get my movies. Sometimes from bins, like a proper hobo ! Sometimes from charity shops. I can't really afford to get interested in anything.
Just take what comes my way!
I will maybe look that up. And read the review. Thanks.
The real Hobos can be quite tragic. The old tramps, are often ill.
My girlfriend was a bit of a hobo. She's always hustling me!
We had issues with our family. It went to court unfortunately.
I asked for the court notes about my girlfriend. They're, about 400 pages !
I was a Railway Maintenance Technician. Age 20-32 on and off. That job is quite nomadic.
We stayed in budget hotels, and travelled as a team of between 5-12.
I wrote a song about it called Steel which is on my TH-cam.
The Hobo is, a migrant worker by definition. I looked it up. I am a fan of economic migration.
Age 17. I wanted to work my way towards London. West to East in the U.K.
Maybe I should have headed West?
I have been all over Southern England with working in Construction or Railway Maintenance, and construction.
A Hobo is:
A romantic likable figure. More likable than a Vagabond. A travelling thief.
Begging is quite honourable. But illegal here in England. With a £1000 fine.
Hustlers ask to borrow money.
Emporer of The North Pole ! I might see that somewhere. Thanks. I will look out for it. And read the review online perhaps. Thanks.
Great story! Makes you realize that with all the homeless people across the USA, this is not a new phenomenon!
And the US Govt. doing nothing to help people (even in a pandemic) is eternal.
@@HiddenHighways I think the problem is not just with the government. The deeply unChristian notion that the poor are to be universally dismissed as having only themselves to blame seems to have been an integral feature of the American Dream since Pilgrim days.
@@HiddenHighwaysAre you kidding? The government handed out so much free money in the "pandemic" it's ridiculous. This country is also drowning in free food unlike in the depression. The massive homeless situation currently is from helpless drug addiction mostly. People get so much free stuff that they have no reason or motivation to do anything different.
Gave it a chance, loved it. Fun and entertaining.
Loved the scarlet plague this is good but he def has better
Roy Trotter , I gave it a chance Millions of times and I. ...... hated or loved it ....... loved it of corse
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"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog."
Think about how much easier it was for the legal system to be as corrupt as the Erie County one was when the only high-speed communication was the telegraph and personal cameras and recording devices were no-existent.
Like Jack London. This is a a geat story and wonderfully told
My favourite ever book. The chapter about. Riding a freight train. Fantastic! The most exciting thing ever! It should be a movie. Jack London is a Philosopher. Did you read, The People of The Abyss? It's a bit hurtful to read as a Englishman.
Having just listened to the IRON HEEL on audio books I'm thinking the iron heel is the best novel by jack London
@@colinglass1342 it's too Political. People of the Abyss. I thought was good.
I could not get into The Iron Heel.
This book has such an exciting sequence. With the train. Someone just has to make a movie out of it!
Maybe they did?
Imagine, a movie. With the scene. Where he, is battling the guards. To get on the train for free. It's awesome!
You got White Fang and Call of The Wild.
Call of The Wild is a fantastic adventure movie.
@@colinglass1342 I might give The Iron Heel another try one day. It's interesting to read Jack London's Biography. However, I am guessing that folks made up the Biographies we might read. From reading his books .
What a fantastic book, really enjoyed it. The reader did a great job.
RUSS LEE, I agree its an amazing book and narorater
Emily Wilson do you know who the reader?is please
Fun book, I love Jack London. Man, he's a real pain to so many people in this story though XD just expecting free stuff cause he showed up and then judging people who didn't just give him things, lol
Fantastic!! Thank you for the upload.
The time stamps in the description are wrong. I caught Ch. 5 here at 2:03:05, The Pen, not 00:30:01.
2:33:06 Chapter 6, Hobos That Pass In The Night.
I remember reading this book years ago (in Portuguese).
Thank you for the upload.
Loved this book thank U to the reader
Thank you!
I grew up along the tracks and knew how to signal for water. Thanks to all the engineers out there.
Great book, very well read! Thank you!
Love this!
Beyond me even at 66 in 🇬🇧 uk and knowing how hard it was for my grandparents 😪 England 🇬🇧 🏴 😢
The poor are more charitable. It's still true today.Time passes, but human nature doesn't change.
Another excellent upload! :-)
Its a wonder full book just like all of Jack Londoner books amazing book and good narorater
Allow I mean London not Londoner hahaha lol
Crazy this is only a five hour story.
If you never been hungry you can really understand the desperation.
Wonder how these the great wrighters create such brilliant stories. rResearch data having creative idears imagination the characters in the stories time place subject of storie .
Some of it must be personal experience.
I heard about folks knocking on doors. Collecting money for charity.
It's an act, and a con. One girl, I knew. Used to research charities online.
I think she knocked the door and, told a story based on who appeared.
If, they looked like a 🐈 cat person perhaps. She might be collecting for cats.
Maybe it's through lying, and hustling.
I think at, a certain point. He claims to share a box car with some Hobos.
They probably heard a story and told, it as if it were they're own!
Or, if he traveled around. Living his life. Perhaps he, really had some great experiences?
He admitted lying about becoming a Sailor.
He wrote a book called: Adventure.
The Oyster Pirates.
Perhaps, he was walking around the train station. Saw graffiti. Maybe, hitched a ride on the train himself once or twice.
Got friendly with other Hobos. Learning their tales. Perhaps, responding to their tips.
He seems to admit he was not really a sailor. Sailing the wide open ocean.
His description of, dredging for Oysters seems a bit wrong. But maybe he, is honest about shore raids?
Some of the stories are borderline illegal.
Here's Colin Glass.
Any relationship to Gary , Al. Or. Uncle Glass ? In Plymouth, England ?
What's a "wrighter"?
Such a great adventure JL takes you on in this book total classic and the reader did it justice.
Very influenced by this book been hoboin for awhile
how did you get started?
Jumped on a train
Hoboing with a smart phone or a computer. Ur just a bum who doesnt want to work 😆😀✡️✡️
I ❤ it
hi all
MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN.
The thing that struck me was how modern it sounded like it could be written today. Then I realized this was written when: the only land transportation was horses and trains, people used gas lights or candles, the telegraph was used and not phones, the probability wasn't much refrigeration, there was practically no government help, and I believe the radio had not been invented.
I was amazed to learn there are people who live that lifestyle now, Jumping trains and travelling back and forth across the US. I saw a documentary on them. There was one guy who was actually wealthy and did it as a kind of adventure holiday. The trains may be diesel but the life they live is essentially the same.
@@rexterrocks Watch Stobe the Hobo on TH-cam. Unfortunately he died doing what he loved best but made great videos featuring his awesome piano renditions of old popular songs that he wrote and played himself! Hobo Shoestring is my favorite TH-cam hobo who is currently alive and making videos.
@@HiddenHighways Thank you loads for that info. I've been watching 'Stobe the Hobo' and am really enjoying the videos and have just started watching 'Hobo Shoestring'. It makes me wish I lived in the USA so I could give it a go.
I remember reading this book years ago (in Portuguese)
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Sounds like the audio is on higher speed. Awesome book but i had to move on to another narrator.
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Good adventure, funny also, some of us need more change than normality gives.
on google you find hundreds of links
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wow this was 6 years ago?!?!
Beer and Skittles?
Skittles was / is a table top game
popular in taverns .
Beware the bull during the darkest hours of the night.
how to download
librivox.com - to download audiobooks. It's a public domain site (meaning it's free) with readers both good and bad
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Show your support for Hong Kong, America stands with you, screw bully China
Screw Hong Kong , USA, and Ukraine 😆 oh and Israel too ✡️☠️✡️☠️😆
Flatten pennies. Run from railroad cops🤪
Narrator ruins it. No inflection. Outta here.
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I enjoyed this, some funny predicaments he finds himself in. Use of the "n" word and "Coon" at times unfortunately. Written in the early 1900s. The narrator is a bit robotic.
Kind of like rap music....just overlook it.
Well i dont think as highly if him as before... But eh well at least he is honest.
Beware language of a bygone era in robotic rendition.
Jeez. N word out of nowhere.
A sad part of our history.
He grew up in a different time. It's still ugly though
Good, but the reader mispronounces some words.
Yeah I couldnt help but notice argot pronounced as ar-gott lol. Not to detract from the free audiobook, though.
Jail for 30-days near Buffalo isn't five years in Siberia but I get the idea. I grew up in Buffalo and what you drank beer out of was pronounced "shoo-per" not shup-er like the reader says. Go Jack...
"N" word warning
Thanks. We'll all brace ourselves. And then go back to pretending that word isn't in every rap song on planet earth.🤣
Nigga please 😆
Reminds me of slavery rounding up Africans for labor camps.
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