i am starting to reread all the RJ novels from the beginning and i was wondering if you ever learn Jack's real last name in any of them. i know we have met his entire family, but i don't know if his real name was every given. does anyone know it or is it forever a mystery?
Viscount Radu Wrote:i am starting to reread all the RJ novels from the beginning and i was wondering if you ever learn Jack's real last name in any of them. i know we have met his entire family, but i don't know if his real name was every given. does anyone know it or is it forever a mystery?
Nobody knows. Someday Paul will reveal Jack's last name. Till then, his name is "Jack".
fpw Wrote:[SIZE="3"]Even I don't know. I never gave him one.[/SIZE]
Ah! But "if" Jack married Gia, he use her last name?
she would in fact have to drop her last name and simply be 'Gia'. same for Vicky.
fpw Wrote:[SIZE="3"]Even I don't know. I never gave him one.[/SIZE]
Paul, I think you gave a little away. Jack is of Irish heritage. On page 302 of the paperback GATEWAYS, Jack's father says, "You don't know how many nights I've lain awake and imagined my hands around his throat, squeezing the life out of him." I have =never= heard any except the Irish use the phrase, "squeezing the life..." My foster-father would take me, when I was little, to his Irish bar in Greenpoint. And the patrons would make much of me: "Tha's yer soon, John? A foine lad!" And I'd take sips from their drafts. Cool to be with the big guys! And one afternoon, a foight broke out. Daddy and his friends got up and shielded me from the fighters. But I peeked around. Two big men, and one says to the other, "Gamme yer bes' two, and then Oi'll get me hands on yer neck and squeeze the fookin' loife outta ya." And I've heard that phrase again from Irish folk. Never from anyone else. Am I roight? (That =you're= a fictioneer of Irish heritage is besoides tha point...
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This post was last modified: 04-17-2006, 05:44 PM by Bluesman Mike Lindner.
Viscount Radu Wrote:i am starting to reread all the RJ novels from the beginning and i was wondering if you ever learn Jack's real last name in any of them. i know we have met his entire family, but i don't know if his real name was every given. does anyone know it or is it forever a mystery?Welcome Viscount,
You do have your answer, FPW NEVER gave Jack a last name. It's been hinted at and speculated much on this board. Maybe the trivia winner can PM FPW with their choice as the ultimate prize!
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Viscount Radu Wrote:i am starting to reread all the RJ novels from the beginning and i was wondering if you ever learn Jack's real last name in any of them. i know we have met his entire family, but i don't know if his real name was every given. does anyone know it or is it forever a mystery?
It's obvious: Jack Black.