Alcoholic Memoirs - Audio Book app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: AppWarrior
First release : 29 Apr 2010
App size: 137.67 Mb
John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs
Jack London (Famous Author of “The Call of the Wild” and “White Fang”) died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his life as seen through the eyes of John Barleycorn (alcohol).
There is much controversy about the cause of his death just as there is about alcoholism and addiction. London’s brutally frank and honest analysis of his own struggles and bouts with alcohol was way before its time and more modern theories of addiction.
With remarkable candor and insight, London describes the demons and gods he encountered through both friend and enemy, John Barleycorn.
Following the worst of Londons alcoholic periods, he wrote this autobiography beginning with his first taste of alcohol, his first experience at being drunk and his first hangover-all at the age of five.
London went on to "earn his manhood spurs" through hard drinking at the steamy waterfront bars on the San Francisco Bay.
It is a tremendous book. One of the first things that will impress you about this book is Londons life.
London was a literal super-man in the Carlyle sense. This book details how London raised himself from incredible child hood poverty and lower class surroundings while still a teen, engaging in rugged, manly adverntures that were simply amazing.
This book also relates how Londons love of books changed his life
Ultimately, it portrays one mans gradual resignation to the unrelenting grip of alcoholism. London at his electrifying, almost unsettling best.
This masterpiece of autobiographical literature first stunned a world audience in 1913, and today continues to strike a resounding contemporary note.
The personal revelation by one of Americas premier adventure writers must have been shocking to a nation that viewed its drunks with a fairly tolerant eye.
It is certainly important for those interested in the alcohol abuse in the world.
This audio book application contains audio files for all chapters in one download, so you can listen to the book on the go without the need for an internet connection. Hence the application size is a little big, and you may need to download it over WiFi connection or through iTunes on your PC or Mac.
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Pause/resume function
Track progress slider
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Audio continues to play when your device is locked.
Offline viewing and listening without internet connection
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Latest reviews of Alcoholic Memoirs - Audio Book app for iPhone and iPad
I Was looking forward to this book, but the narrator is absolutely terrible! Does not flow the way a narrator should, pauses and over enunciation of simple words and phrases. Very disappointed.
Just to get the issue out of the way, the reader of this audiobook is not the greatest. He does lack flow at times, mispronounces a word here and there, and (at least to me) has a pretty annoying affect to his speech. All things considered, though, I dont think he detracted from the story so much that I couldnt listen, and in some passages he actually helps. I found this looking for some AA recovery-related material. This is not it. In fact anyone in recovery who listens to this will pretty quickly be amazed at Jack Londons absolute, persistent insistence that he didnt have a problem with alcohol. It is hard to tell if London was creating a cautionary tale or just chronicling his exploits in a sequence of war stories. Either way, the stories themselves are fascinating. Booze-fueled or not, this man led an amazing life... it is the action of this audiobook that allows me to overlook some of its shortcomings. This is definitely worth $.99... thats my $.02 on it.