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Title: The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Fly Fishing, Trout, & Old Men by Harry Middleton ISBN: 0-87108-874-6 Publisher: Pruett Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A truly beautiful work that will stand the test of time.
Comment: Harry should take his place next to other great authors. Themessage that this book carries is in the depth of caring and auniversal consideration for life, along with the message that these things do not come from the material comforts on which we have we have come to depend. I think of this book and its lessons often in this era when our children eat drugs like candy, flock to the artificiality of backsteet urban culture and shoot each other just to "belong". I think it offers a moral reality that they yearn for. I agree with the reviewer from WA, this should be made by Redford into a movie. Maybe with Newman or Ralph Waite with some of the old" Walton" cast (especially the narrator). Does anyone know how to contact him? This book will remain number one on my bookshelf. Its too bad we lost Harry so early. Now we have to hope some publisher will buy the rights and re-issue "Starlight Creek Angling Society" so the rest of us can read the continuing saga.
Rating: 4
Summary: Emotionally Heavy
Comment: Middleton served up all the emotions, from the joys of life and nature to the sorrows of death. I pretty much love all books about fly fishing. This one will definitely be added to my "for the love of fly fishing" list. My favorite quote from the book is the one by Uncle Albert, who said, "Take up the fly rod, and the shotgun, and before you know it, you're an outcast, a social leper, rejected by your family, despised by your neighbors, mistrusted by your community....The final question is, should any man turn his back on ambition, profit, security, and a parking place in the city, just to pursue a fish?" That quote pretty much captures the life of Uncle Albert and Grandfather Emerson who were tasked with raising their young relative in the Ozarks of Arkansas. Add a little influence from their half crazy Native American neighbor and you understand where the title comes from. The old fellas loved and praised the earth like Native Americans do. My only complaint with this book is that it was almost too heavy with sadness and I don't handle death well. I much preferred his book, "On the Spine of Time", which was lighter and funnier.
Rating: 1
Summary: faux faulkner
Comment: In his foreword, Russell Chatham writes, "It was shortly after reading Harry Middleton's "The Earth is Enough" that I made the decision to give up flyfishing."
If I'd read the book first, I might never have taken up fly fishing. This book almost makes one want to give up reading.
The book is overwritten and under-edited -- like a high school sophomore with a big vocabulary and not enough sense to keep his mouth shut. Belongs in the "Br'er Rabbit Book-of-the Month Club."
I didn't learn much about flyfishing -- or anything else -- from the book and when someone asks what I've read lately, I probably won't remember the book. It really is that bad.
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Title: The Bright Country: A Fisherman's Return to Trout, Wild Water, and Himself by Harry Middleton ISBN: 0871089041 Publisher: Pruett Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing by Helene Cixous, Sarah Cornell, Susan Sellers ISBN: 0231076592 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Introduction to Psychotherapy: An Outline of Psychodynamic Principles and Practice by Anthony Bateman, Dennis Brown, Jonathan Pedder ISBN: 0415205697 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group Pub. Date: 15 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: The Heart of Psychotherapy: A Journey into the Mind and Office of the Therapist at Work by George Weinberg ISBN: 0312141106 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Space for God : The Study and Practice of Prayer and Spirituality by Don Postema ISBN: 0933140460 Publisher: Faith Alive Christian Resources Pub. Date: 01 June, 1983 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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