Customer Reviews

The Fly Fisherman's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What a Lifetime on the Water Has Taught Me about Love, Work, Food, Sex, and Getting Up Early (Guides to the Meaning of Life)

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On page 100 of this precious little tome the author writes, "There are plenty of bloviating gasbags out there who look at fly fishing as a way to write overblown, over-serious, over precious stuff".

He said it - I didn't have to...

Why then as many as four stars?

Anything having to do with fly fishing, no matter how bad, is still good.

And any writer who manages to use the word "bloviating" deserves kudos, even if in doing so he's condemning himself.

I've read a fair portion of the fly-fishing books out there, and this is the worst one I've come across. It's so bad I occasionally pull it off the shelf and tell myself, "it couldn't have been that bad," but after a few pages I put it down again in disgust. I really should just burn it or toss it in the trash, so there's no danger anyone else will waste a portion of his life reading it.

I'm not even sure this guy is much of a fisher, but if you told me the author had googled all the platitudes, stereotypes, and cliches, dumped it into a "Chicken Soup for the Fly Fisher" format, and renamed with a faux-Zen title, I would have to agree...and respect you, for having had the temerity to finish the thing.

This book appeals to those of us in the FF community with a philosophical bent. There are some real gems here. Read it. Ponder. Continue the journey toward enlightment.

This book promises a lot right to the reader, and right on the cover as well. However, this book does not offer little more than a compelling story about a few episodes in which the writer came to some new insight. These just happened to occur (or at least seemed that way) during fishing. So a random insight that occurs during a fishing trip is now rendered into something that was brought about by fishing. This is why the book over promises and under delivers. Still, it is entertaining. It just is not all you would expect from just reading the title. Consequently, you will be disappointed. Now you do not have to because you have read this. Anyway, get it at your own peril.

I thought this book would be so much more. Quite disappointing.
Way too many typos - to the point of being distracting.

I loved your book. An old friend of mine thought that I would enjoy it and I did. Thank you for an enjoyable read about a very interesting cast of characters