As Winter Comes

Soon the fall will give way to the winter in the Northeast. Any
suggestions for good enjoyable 'non technical' books to pass the time?
I just picked up Ray Bergman's Trout and I love it. Although there are
technical aspects to the book, I just really enjoy the guy's writing
style. Any other recommendations?

"tmon" wrote in message
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Soon the fall will give way to the winter in the Northeast. Any
suggestions for good enjoyable 'non technical' books to pass the time?
I just picked up Ray Bergman's Trout and I love it. Although there are
technical aspects to the book, I just really enjoy the guy's writing
style. Any other recommendations?


Oh Lordie,,,,any number of suggestions this should get you into the New Year
anyway...

1. River Music - Babb
2. On the Spine of Time - Middleton
3. Early Love and Brook Trout - Prosek
4. Fishermans Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter - Haig Brown
5. Winding Ridge Trilogy - Volk
6. From a Wooden Canoe - Dennis
7. A Place on the Water - Dennis
8. Meanderings of a Fly Fisherman - Norman
9. A River Never Sleeps - Haig Brown (anything by Haig -Brown)
10. any and everything by Nick Lyons
11. Snowfly - Heywood
12. Pocket Water - Tapply
13. Crosscurrents - Babb
14. The Habit of Rivers - Leeson
15. Running Waters - Proper (if into hunting also look at Pheasants of the
Mind)
16. The Longest Silence - McGuane

Wayne K.
(and people think I only collect rods)

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:58:18 -0500, "Wayne Knight"
wrote:


"tmon" wrote in message
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Soon the fall will give way to the winter in the Northeast. Any
suggestions for good enjoyable 'non technical' books to pass the time?
I just picked up Ray Bergman's Trout and I love it. Although there are
technical aspects to the book, I just really enjoy the guy's writing
style. Any other recommendations?


Oh Lordie,,,,any number of suggestions this should get you into the New Year
anyway...

1. River Music - Babb
2. On the Spine of Time - Middleton
3. Early Love and Brook Trout - Prosek
4. Fishermans Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter - Haig Brown
5. Winding Ridge Trilogy - Volk
6. From a Wooden Canoe - Dennis
7. A Place on the Water - Dennis
8. Meanderings of a Fly Fisherman - Norman
9. A River Never Sleeps - Haig Brown (anything by Haig -Brown)
10. any and everything by Nick Lyons
11. Snowfly - Heywood
12. Pocket Water - Tapply
13. Crosscurrents - Babb
14. The Habit of Rivers - Leeson
15. Running Waters - Proper (if into hunting also look at Pheasants of the
Mind)
16. The Longest Silence - McGuane

Wayne K.
(and people think I only collect rods)


Leeson's "Jerusalem Creek" is also very good. As is Middleton's "The Earth is
Enough".There are lots more, enough to fill up years of closed seasons.


g.c.

tmon wrote:

Soon the fall will give way to the winter in the Northeast. Any
suggestions for good enjoyable 'non technical' books to pass the time?
I just picked up Ray Bergman's Trout and I love it. Although there are
technical aspects to the book, I just really enjoy the guy's writing
style. Any other recommendations?

Wayne's "anything by Haig-Brown" is a good start. "A River Never
Sleeps" is far and away my favorite FFing book.

I'd to his list Steve Raymond's "Year of the Angler" and "Rivers of the
Heart."

JR

Soon the fall will give way to the winter in the Northeast. Any
suggestions for good enjoyable 'non technical' books to pass the time?
I just picked up Ray Bergman's Trout and I love it. Although there are
technical aspects to the book, I just really enjoy the guy's writing
style. Any other recommendations?


I always look forward to curling up with a good book on a chilly night for a
few hours, but it will have to wait a while...The temp was back up into the
90's yesterday in Dallas. I always re-read some Gierach,just about anything
will do, but one of my favorites is Trout Bum. Just for ****s and grins try one
oof the fly-fishing novels. The one that jumps out from the bookshelf at the
moment is The Flyfishing Corpse by David Leitz. You might want to wander the
aisles at you local Half-Price Books just for the hell of it. Get on the list
to receive the Book Mailer from Graycliff Publishing. It is a good read and I
challange you to spend less than a hundred bucks when you call them. That was
La Fontaine's Publishing Company and I have never been dissapointed by any book
they recomended. Contact Waldo at Wilson Creek Outfitters for any out of print
books and he should be able to help you with some cool old stuff. There was a
bunch in his shop when I was there a few weeks ago.

Big Dale

"tmon" wrote in message
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Soon the fall will give way to the winter in the Northeast. Any
suggestions for good enjoyable 'non technical' books to pass the time?
I just picked up Ray Bergman's Trout and I love it. Although there are
technical aspects to the book, I just really enjoy the guy's writing
style. Any other recommendations?

"The Degradation of the Academic Dogma", by Robert A. Nisbet. A classic (if
somewhat dated) treatment of the ills that plague the modern American
university.

"The Story of Corn", by Betty Fussell. Everything you ever wanted to know
about corn......and then some.

Wolfgang

From: (Wolfgang)

"The Degradation of the Academic Dogma", by Robert A. Nisbet. A classic
(if somewhat dated) treatment of the ills that plague the modern
American university.

Hmm.... I didn't know there were problems with modern American academia.
Do the problems have anything to do with the fact that the professors in
the sample know Forty?

"The Story of Corn", by Betty Fussell. Everything you ever wanted to
know about corn......and then some.

What's that?

"Wolfgang" wrote...
snip
"The Story of Corn", by Betty Fussell. Everything you ever wanted to know
about corn......and then some.

I especially like the passage, "The husky colonel stalked her unmercifully, her
silky skin popping with anticipation, as she rowed through water thick as
cream."
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

"tmon" wrote in message
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From: (Wolfgang)

"The Degradation of the Academic Dogma", by Robert A. Nisbet. A classic
(if somewhat dated) treatment of the ills that plague the modern
American university.

Hmm.... I didn't know there were problems with modern American academia.

In that case, I would suggest you read "The Degradation of the Academic
Dogma", by Robert A. Nisbet.

Do the problems have anything to do with the fact that the professors in
the sample know Forty?

The professors in which sample?

"The Story of Corn", by Betty Fussell. Everything you ever wanted to
know about corn......and then some.

What's that?

A cereal crop. An annual grass also known as maize.

Wolfgang

"Tim J." wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote...
snip
"The Story of Corn", by Betty Fussell. Everything you ever wanted to
know
about corn......and then some.

I especially like the passage, "The husky colonel stalked her
unmercifully, her
silky skin popping with anticipation, as she rowed through water thick as
cream."

hilarious; and sweet to the ear...

yfitons
wayno