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Title: Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis by Howell Raines ISBN: 0-385-47519-5 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 November, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.53 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Flyfishing and Therapy in One Book
Comment: Raines has done a wonderful job in this book on several fronts. It is a very engaging story, chock full of the entertainment we long to read for. It is also a wealth of nuggets of information about flyfishing -- those nuggets you won't find in the "how-to" books, but normally only learn through long hard experience. Woven through this great tale however is something much deeper and more personal. It is a story, a fly-fishing instructional book, and practical, down-to-earth psychotherapy for men over 40, all in one compact book. It helps us to recognize those traits we've suffered through and tried to understand. All in all, Raines essentially says to save your head shrink money and go fly-fishing. I've followed his advice - and it works!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Wonderful Book!
Comment: I have read this book several times in the past two years and will likely read it again. It is that kind of book that offers up new nuggets each time one picks it up. Raines' particular midlife crisis is never really identified - in my first reading, it was the loss of his friend, Dick Blalock, as well as the passing into adulthood of his sons. In another reading, it was the breakup of his marriage, or was it the realization that his career didn't turn out as he had expected? Whatever, they are crises that any of us midlifers can be facing, regardless of our particular passion or political views (Even Conservatives Get the Blues!). Fly fishing, whether it was the cause or the cure, is the threads that Raines uses to tie together his passage through this time in his life. You won't learn fly fishing with this book, but you will gain some valuable insight as well as something to think about the next time you get out to the stream.
Rating: 1
Summary: Where is the part about Midlife Crisis?
Comment: Maybe my crisis is so intense I missed this topic on the book. I purchased this book in the attempt of finding some more information about men midlife crisis. But if you intend on buying this book for the same reason, don't.
There's absolutely nothing valuable about the subject, and frankly, the fly-fishing part (almost everything else) is not even interesting. I'm not a fisher, but a well-written book will get your attention about any subject. This one is just a compilation of small autobiographical chronicles with doubtful choice of sequence.
Perhaps good if you are a fly-fisher or want to know some meaningless political stories. If not, waste of time and money.
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Title: Whiskey Man by Howell Raines ISBN: 0817310673 Publisher: Univ. of Alabama Press Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered by Howell Raines ISBN: 0140067531 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: September, 1983 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Moon Pulled Up an Acre of Bass: A Flyrodder's Odyssey at Montauk Point by Peter Kaminsky ISBN: 0786867698 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 05 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean, Annie Proulx ISBN: 0226500667 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Bright Country: A Fisherman's Return to Trout, Wild Water, and Himself by Harry Middleton, Russell Chatham ISBN: 0871089041 Publisher: Pruett Publishing Co. Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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