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For the last several years my bride has given me a book for Christmas,
something I have enjoyed a great deal. Are there any books that you would suggest? It doesn't necessarily have to be fishing/flyfishing related. In past years I have read "The Ridge Runner" , "North to the Night", "Working on the Edge" and could hardly put them down... TIA, JT |
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JT wrote:
For the last several years my bride has given me a book for Christmas, something I have enjoyed a great deal. Are there any books that you would suggest? ... http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Larsen.../dp/0451228197 And perhaps your bride could drop a hint to my bride telling her I'm not going to buy this one for myself until after Xmas, just in case Santy Claus brings me one. ;-) -- Ken Fortenberry |
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Snowfly by Heywood. Great read and it IS fly fishing related. Frank Reid |
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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:47:53 -0700, "JT" wrote:
For the last several years my bride has given me a book for Christmas, something I have enjoyed a great deal. Are there any books that you would suggest? It doesn't necessarily have to be fishing/flyfishing related. In past years I have read "The Ridge Runner" , "North to the Night", "Working on the Edge" and could hardly put them down... TIA, JT Anything by Pat McManus and/or Gene Hill. No particular reason to recommend them, and I can't even say why they popped into my head, but they did. IIRC, I've recommended them on ROFF in the past. I think I've read all the books by both and I know I've liked all I've read - as always, YMMV. TC, R |
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On Oct 26, 12:47*pm, "JT" wrote:
For the last several years my bride has given me a book for Christmas, something I have enjoyed a great deal. Are there any books that you would suggest? It doesn't necessarily have to be fishing/flyfishing related. *In past years I have read "The Ridge Runner" , "North to the Night", "Working on the Edge" and could hardly put them down... TIA, JT Whew! Book recommendations......this one always gives me the fantods. Where to begin? Where to end? Well, let's start with something that IS fishing related. Robert Traver's (Traver was the nom de plume of judge John Voelker) "Trout Madness" is still hard to beat after all these decades for encapsulating what the title alone says so eloquently. If you're a book lover (not every reader.....not even every avid reader.....is), Hans Zinsser's "Rats, Lice and History" is a must. So, what's to like about a 1930's vintage introduction to epidemiology? The subtitle; "Being a Study in Biography, Which, After Twelve Preliminary Chapters Indispensable for the Preparation of the Lay Reader, Deals With the Life History of Typhus Fever" gives some subtle clues. Zinsser was playful, garrulous, opinionated, well educated (a highly respected epidemiologist), as well as an extraordinarily good writer. Digression, rants, digressions, cool logic, digressions, wit, digressions, historical perspective, digressions, a keen sense of the absurd in contemporary culture and politics (in its time, of course) and digressions.....this book has got it all. This was the first first and only book I have ever read that made me laugh out loud on reading a footnote.....and has made me do so again on each of a dozen or so rereadings over the last forty years. But enough editorialising.....a few other favorites, in no particular order and sans (mostly) commentary (Google can find you billions and billions of better reviews than anything I could ever hope to provide): "Metamagical Themas"--Douglas Hofstadter. "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat"--Oliver Sacks any of Stephen J. Gould's books. "West With the Night"--Beryl Markham "Don Quixote"--Miguel de Cervantes. (Considered by many to be the first true "novel"......you'll have to ask them about the criteria.....and by many to be the best ever.....ibid. Bottom line; Cervantes got it right the first time). But be careful about the translation you pick (unless you decide to read it in the original).....some are very dreary. "Huckleberry Finn" by you know who, IS the quintessential "great american novel" despite being commonly (and egregiously) libeled as a children's book. (An old friend of mine, who took too many postgrad lit courses, once told me that the book is "episodic"! No, duh.) Pretty much anything by Barbara Kingsolver, but especially "The Bean Trees," "Pigs in Heaven," and "Animal Dreams." Anything by Annie Dillard. Um......uh.....well, one could go on for days. More? giles |
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On 26-Oct-2009, "JT" wrote:
For the last several years my bride has given me a book for Christmas, something I have enjoyed a great deal. Are there any books that you would suggest? It doesn't necessarily have to be fishing/flyfishing related. In past years I have read "The Ridge Runner" , "North to the Night", "Working on the Edge" and could hardly put them down... I don't know how old you are but here is one that helped me through a "strange" period of life. http://www.amazon.com/Fly-Fishing-Th...1&sr=1-1-spell Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis by Howell Raines Fred |
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On Oct 26, 10:47*am, "JT" wrote:
For the last several years my bride has given me a book for Christmas, something I have enjoyed a great deal. Are there any books that you would suggest? It doesn't necessarily have to be fishing/flyfishing related. *In past years I have read "The Ridge Runner" , "North to the Night", "Working on the Edge" and could hardly put them down... TIA, JT Ask for a brace of Donna Leon's Commisario Brunetti mystery series set in Venice. Brunetti mostly forgets to carry his gun, is computer adverse, and operates within the less than clear ethical complexity of Italy. M. Dibden's Arsenio Zen Italian detective series is Brunetti's darker opposite and also full of Italian complexity. Dibden just died. "Ratios" is the most useful cookbook I have ever met. New and recommended. "1491" is an approachable update on the incredible advances in archeology and anthropology since the 1960s which most folks, political correctness and Nat Geo seem stuck in. "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana," Umberto Eco. Great Eco AND amazing illustrations. Many in my generation have said that Dana Lamb's "Where the Pools are Bright and Deep," is the best writing ever on fly fishing. Good luck in finding a copy and if you do and its a first edition it is investment grade. I am just starting to read "the Yacoubian Building," by Alaa al Aswany. It's by a modern Egyptian and so far facinating.reading. Big discovery for me but evidently this guy is very popular internationally. Dave |
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![]() "JT" wrote in message ... For the last several years my bride has given me a book for Christmas, something I have enjoyed a great deal. Are there any books that you would suggest? It doesn't necessarily have to be fishing/flyfishing related. In past years I have read "The Ridge Runner" , "North to the Night", "Working on the Edge" and could hardly put them down... TIA, JT Thanks all for the suggestions! Much appreciated, JT |
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![]() "Giles" wrote in message ... On Oct 26, 12:47 pm, "JT" wrote: More? No, this should have me in reading for years to come... Thanks, JT |
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On Oct 26, 10:17*pm, Giles wrote:
Um......uh.....well, one could go on for days. Books... meh. :-) Wm |
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