The River Why by Duncan

"just al" wrote in message
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Has anyone here read the River Why by David James Duncan?
[snip]
I would be interested
in your opinions...


I tried to read it several years ago, I did not like it, never finished it.
If I recall, it just did not hold my interest. One of only two such books in
the past 10 years I could not finish. If anyone cares the other was "Zipping
my Fly"

just al wrote:
Has anyone here read the River Why by David James Duncan? I teach the novel
to my high school seniors. The focus is on breaking free of the family unit
and establishing an identity and environmental conservation. I recently had
a guardian of a student bash the novel by saying, "...which I thought was
convoluted, obtuse, too wordy and no doubt the dream
book of every aging alcoholic "hippie" in America..."

My principal and superintendent backed me 100%. But I would be interested
in your opinions...


take the asshole fishin'.

wally

Yeah, it's a tough first 36 pages but it gets really good. Give it another
go, or try his Brother's K

Wayne Knight wrote:
"just al" wrote in message
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Has anyone here read the River Why by David James Duncan?

[snip]

I would be interested
in your opinions...



I tried to read it several years ago, I did not like it, never finished it.

Same here. It was pretentious and self important.

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

cool, thanks for the new title. will be checking it out.

"rw" wrote in message
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Same here. It was pretentious and self important.


Ya know, this is the third or fourth time in the past week you and I've
agreed on a subject. Not that we've ever really had the bad blood between us
others have had but still a little scary

"bruiser" wrote in message
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Haig-Brown is proving to
be pretty slow going for me too.


If the Haig-Brown is "A River Never Sleeps" or "Return to the River", I'll
be more than happy to help you overcome that little problem.

I couldn't finish "A Flyfisherman's Blue Ridge". Haig-Brown is proving to
be pretty slow going for me too.

bruce h

why g not give the kids a look at middleton's "on the spine of time".
i think there's a good master's thesis that could be developed on
middleton...

just al wrote:

Has anyone here read the River Why by David James Duncan? I teach the novel
to my high school seniors. The focus is on breaking free of the family unit
and establishing an identity and environmental conservation. I recently had
a guardian of a student bash the novel by saying, "...which I thought was
convoluted, obtuse, too wordy and no doubt the dream
book of every aging alcoholic "hippie" in America..."

My principal and superintendent backed me 100%. But I would be interested
in your opinions...

--
Al Hammel
http://groups.msn.com/FlyFishingWorl...ritecasts.msnw

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 07:05:29 -0800, "bruiser"
wrote:

Next book I'm searching for is "The Earth is Enough" (?) by
Middleton, which I've heard is really great.

It is a great book. http://tinyurl.com/35m7n is one place you can get
it.
--
Charlie...