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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
Touching in an unexpected way. A man recollects the toxic masculinity of his childhood growing up in Montana, and how he and his brother and father used fly fishing to express their love for each other - 5 stars for the title story and 3 for the other stories
adventurous
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
This was actually pretty hard to focus on; it made me wonder if my brain had melted from too much YA fiction. I could see the beauty of certain lines, but in the end I liked David James Duncan's more sprawling fishing story, [b:The River Why|23196|The River Why|David James Duncan|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167391170s/23196.jpg|993607], better. Maclean's prose is of the deceptively spare kind - actually really dense, with melancholy as thick as fog. I took quite a few days to finish this slim volume.
There is a pretty good story on lumberjacks, gambling and the quest to prove one's masculinity too.
There is a pretty good story on lumberjacks, gambling and the quest to prove one's masculinity too.
adventurous
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is at least my third reading. Still as enjoyable today as the first time.
Sure the prose is beautiful but im not geriatric
Funny now I finally read books for my own pleasure and put off reading books for class.
I watched the movie long ago and many times—it’s my favorite ever. I’m surprised by how much the movie added to the plot of the book. The book is a lot more fishing and a lot less literature, but it wasn’t worse because of it, merely good in a different way.
Reading the book makes me feel as if I’ve attended church, and that the church was out in the mountains or at the dinner table. And as someone who has been to Montana, and also has clambered and camped variously in the mountains around my own home, the book really sweeps my soul into its currents. I absolutely loved it.
I watched the movie long ago and many times—it’s my favorite ever. I’m surprised by how much the movie added to the plot of the book. The book is a lot more fishing and a lot less literature, but it wasn’t worse because of it, merely good in a different way.
Reading the book makes me feel as if I’ve attended church, and that the church was out in the mountains or at the dinner table. And as someone who has been to Montana, and also has clambered and camped variously in the mountains around my own home, the book really sweeps my soul into its currents. I absolutely loved it.
“A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.”