Good Reads?

[jtram]

I am looking for some new book suggestions. Preferably outdoors/fishing subjects but if you have a suggestion on a different genre, let's hear it.

[joeD]

Might try John Gierach. "Trout Bum" or "Sex Death and Flyfishing." Simple, somewhat humorous, easy, enjoyable reading. They are essay collections, not a how-to or a novel or non fiction "educational" publications.

I have more, but that comes to mind now, not knowing what you like.

Anything by Jim Harrison. "Brown Dog" is excellent.

[jtram]

I own and have read all of Gierach with the exception of his newest and a couple of his "tactics" books. I like him, that style suits my short time frames I have to read with 2 kids a wife and something resembling a job to work around . Will check out Jim Thompson.

[ozark trout fisher]

I can't recommend anything higher than Stars Upstream by Leonard Hall, as much of a throwback choice as it is.

It's the perfect mix of Ozark history/geography/general knowledge wrapped into a bunch of old timey stories about fishing/floating/anything else you can do in the Current River Hills. it changed my outlook for the region and my respect for it a pretty incredible amount.

For pure enjoyment, the Gierach books are all a ton of fun and hard to beat. They're all good, and all the same, to a certain degree, though "Sex, Death, and Fly-fishing" is probably his best work IMO.

"The Longest Silence" by Thomas McGuane is also pretty incredible, though less lighthearted and a bit more stuffy than the above...but still a good read.

[MOPanfisher]

Heck I enjoyed reading Lewis and Clarks journals, fairly short entries, read most of them while sitting in a deer stand.

[MOPanfisher]

Another series I enjoyed very much were Jean Auel clan of the cave bear series, 4 or 5 books I think. However they are long novels each and if reading when you can they will last a while, which isn't a bad thing. One more, I believe it's called The Hunters Heart, a friend gave it to me to read while recovering, he really really liked it, I only got one or two of the stories read, I really need to find it and finish it. It's kind of a bunch of short stories about why we hunt.

[joeD]

"What the River Knows: An Angler in Midstream" by Wayne Fields, an English professor at Wash U when he wrote and published this. A rumination of his mid life fly fishing pilgrimage to Michigan and WHAT HE LEARNED (capitals are mine).

Worth reading. I should read it again, as I am in a different place in life.

(Jim HARRISON) I edited first post.

Although Jim Thompson is awesome if you like crime and noir and thrillers. He wrote "The Getaway" and "The Grifters" to name two, which became movies.

[Al Agnew]

For an offbeat book but one I found very good and fun to read, see if you can find "The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks", by Donald Harington. I have no idea if it's still available for sale--it was written in 1975. But don't let the title fool you, it's actually a novel about six generations of people in a tiny settlement deep in the Ozark mountains, starting with the Indians and the first settlers and continuing up until fairly recent times. It has a real Ozark flavor and the people are very interesting, to say the least.

Another terrific author of novels with Ozark settings is (was, he died in 2010) Mitch Jayne. He was a member of the Dillards bluegrass band, best known for their portrayals of the Darlings on the old Andy Griffith show. He wrote four books, "Home Grown Stories and Home Fried Lies", "The Forest in the Wind", "Fiddler's Ghost", and "Old Fish Hawk". The last two are my favorites, and I even did the cover illustration for the audio version of "Old Fish Hawk".

[tjulianc]

Goodbye to a River by John Graves.

Down the River by Edward Abbey.

The Founding Fish by John McPhee.

[Norm M]

Paul Quinnett

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=paul+quinnett+fishing+lessons