Don’t worry; it’s not that Jack Black. Oh, and to answer your other question, it’s only a myth that Pirates can’t read. It just takes us longer than most people. Have you ever wanted to know how to rob a jewelry store, get arrested, break out of jail and become richer than Donald Trump’s personal ass wiper all in the same day? How about sneaking into a man’s house and stealing the wad of cash under the pillow he’s sleeping on? Read this book.
This an autobiography following Jack Black, a true Clint Eastwood type at the turn of the last century drifting from town to town, plundering and disappearing like a true land pirate. A man who was young enough to worship Billy the Kidd while he was still an outlaw. We see Jack move from hobo jungles to whore houses to opium dens and prisons all over America with other “colorful” hoodlums like Salt Chunk Mary, Foot and a Half George and the Sanctimonious Kid. This is a book detailing crime when it was still an art and smart criminals always had the upper hand.
[...] familiar? In an earlier review, I wrote about the book, “You Can’t Win”, by Jack Black. This is a book Burroughs memorized by heart and even wrote the forward to in later [...]