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amesd's review
5.0
was working in the same area the book was set in. doesn't get much better than that. also a super sympathetic narrator. dug it.
tjmcq's review
5.0
True autobiographical story of a college age guy living 7 months in a tent over the winter in the Idaho mountains guarding Salmon eggs.
hiroto's review
2.0
Only three stars? What happened here? Well, it was me having too high expectations. Somehow I thought this book was going to be funny, or if not, at least fun. It honestly wasn't.
I thought the story was going to be engaging, but I couldn't find myself more detached from the narrator, it felt really immature and somewhat... cold (which the humor of that isn't lost on me).
Pete Fromm recalled how he spent his winter working as a fish and game employee, alone during the hardest time of the year, having to hunt for himself and walk everyday as of to no get bored. Well, I *was* bored. It just wasn't compelling enough.
The part I actually enjoyed was the last chunk of the book, where he talks about Spring and how it transform the whole paysage and how it also affects him mentally. That was quite well written.
The rest? Blah, Bland and Boring. Stories of hunts and solitude and more hunts and always hunts.
In the end, three stars is a high rating.
I thought the story was going to be engaging, but I couldn't find myself more detached from the narrator, it felt really immature and somewhat... cold (which the humor of that isn't lost on me).
Pete Fromm recalled how he spent his winter working as a fish and game employee, alone during the hardest time of the year, having to hunt for himself and walk everyday as of to no get bored. Well, I *was* bored. It just wasn't compelling enough.
The part I actually enjoyed was the last chunk of the book, where he talks about Spring and how it transform the whole paysage and how it also affects him mentally. That was quite well written.
The rest? Blah, Bland and Boring. Stories of hunts and solitude and more hunts and always hunts.
In the end, three stars is a high rating.
bobbo49's review
4.0
A fun, often funny, memoir about Fromm's winter in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness when he was 20, having dropped out of school in Missoula on a whim to seek a "mountain man" experience working for Idaho Fish & Game tending baby salmon through the ice-over. His inexperience brings him close enough to death several times, and he not only survives (with numerous amazing wilderness experiences), but finally thrives in the harsh solitary wild. Excellent read, highly recommended to my outdoorsy friends!
maxdemone's review
5.0
Great memoir of a man spending the winter in the wilderness of Idaho-Montana caring for salmon spawn.
emmett_rigdon's review
adventurous
informative
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
2.5
Not my favorite book, however, some of the stories were interesting. Some parts were boring, other parts felt repetitive. The afterword was probably the most interesting.