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Viscount Radu   04-16-2006, 11:58 PM
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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?
Kenji   04-17-2006, 06:59 AM
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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?


Nobody knows. Someday Paul will reveal Jack's last name. Till then, his name is "Jack".
fpw   04-17-2006, 09:12 AM
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[SIZE="3"]Even I don't know. I never gave him one.[/SIZE]

FPW
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Kenji   04-17-2006, 10:14 AM
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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? Big Grin
HaroldDemure   04-17-2006, 10:52 AM
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she would in fact have to drop her last name and simply be 'Gia'. same for Vicky.
Bluesman Mike Lindner   04-17-2006, 05:41 PM
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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...Wink )
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cobalt   04-17-2006, 09:22 PM
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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?
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! Smile

EWMAN
shmoolie   08-20-2006, 04:00 AM
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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. Wink
luthie2   08-20-2006, 09:56 AM
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shmoolie Wrote:It's obvious: Jack Black. Wink

Welcome to the board, shmoolie! Smile

-Luthie
shmoolie   08-20-2006, 03:28 PM
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luthie2 Wrote:Welcome to the board, shmoolie! Smile

-Luthie


Thanks Luthie.
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