Whatcha been reading lately?
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Made me glad I’d never decided to be a guide. They work too hard!
That’s the truth Mick! I really enjoyed the AK Chronicles as well. He has a real salt of the earth writing style and gut splitting funny since of humor.
Been doing some reading the last month or so:
Young Men and Fire – Norman Maclean
1776 – David McCulloughAnd currently in the process of reading a double feature by Teddy Roosevelt called Hunting Trips Of A Ranchman & The Wilderness Hunter These two books were written in 1885 and 1893 and it is really interesting so far. It’s pretty cool to see how much is the same as back then, and yet how much has changed, and of course the more formal writing style used back then makes it interesting as well.
I just finished The Big Burn by Timothy Egan. Great story about Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot and the 1910 forest fire.
So Long As Men Can Breathe. The books isn’t about fishing, obviously, but if anyone is interested in Shakespeare, especially his sonnets, I think you’ll like this book.
I also liked The Book of William How Shakespeare’s First Folio Changed the World.
Have to read about more things than fishing.
I have three books on the go at the minute.
Fifty Places To Fly Fish Before You Die- Chris Santella.
A River Runs Through It- Norman Mclean.
Fishing Season- Phillip Weigall.
The last book is by a local Aussie author and is a very good read.Cheers Boydo
I highly recommend Ted Leeson’s Inventing Montana. If you’re between 30 and 50 and know the Madison Valley, you’ll simply appreciate the quality and thoughtfulness of the prose. If you’re over 50, you’ll get it.
Must agree heartily with this recommendation.
I killed a B&N gift card last night and ordered Lost in Wyoming, The River Why, and 92 Degrees in the Shade.
I got a whole stack of old Gray’s back issues recently (mostly from the 70s including the preliminary issue) and have been cruising through them. There is some really good stuff.
Quote by Frank Woolner in an article about grouse hunting from the preliminary issue in 1975:
It has been said that a grouse hunter reads good books,
fishes with a dry fly, is kind to his children, and never
beats his wife with anything but an imported Hardy rod.For the shotgunners on the board I just finished a couple by Michael McIntosh:
Shotguns & Shooting
Shotguns & Shooting ThreeMcIntosh has a nice easy style.
was given the jimmy buffet book about him turning 50-pirate something.
been trying to get into it but its so much about his multiple houses, adventures, boats, fishing trips, etc etc that its turning me off from reading it.
Latest to make my bedside table/travel stack:
Ted Leeson’s Inventing Montana
Kathy Scott’s Changing Planes
Anders Halverson’s An Entirely Synthetic Fish
and three by the late William Tapply:
Out Cold
Hell-Bent
One-Way TicketI am re-reading David Ames – A Good Life Wasted- 20 years as a Fishing Guide.
I loved it the first time- and am enjoying it again. I highly recomend it.
Dan
I picked up John McPhee’s “Assembling California” hoping it would be as good as his book “The Founding Fish” (discussing the history of the American Shad) and I am truging through it quite ungratefully.
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