Customer Reviews

Guiding Elliott

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I haven't fished in 30 years ... yet, as a non-fisherman ... I found this book to be very enjoyable. The characters were true to life ... and the candid events held my interest. I found myself laughing out loud ... and at other times, had tears rolling down my face. Robert Lee did a beautiful job with this .... Bravo!!!

Great book, very funny and whitty. It feels like you know "Number Three" halfway through the book and, despite his politically incorrect views and simplicity (or maybe because of it), he endears himself to the reader in double quick time!

I would highly recommend this to anyone who enjoys the sport of flyfishing and the characters that go with it - Robert Lee penned a little gem!

I loved every minute of this book. I read it while I was fly fishing in Montana for rainbow. It was the perfect book to settle into every night before getting up early to fish again the next day. The characters are wonderful. I felt like I knew them personally. The author has a great sense of humor. Even though this book was very funny, it has a moral to the story. I hope Lee writes another one.

This novel at times places you in a beautiful Montana river delicately presenting your fly, then again in the dimly lit Muddler tavern with a cold Pabst Blue Ribbon in hand. All with the hilarity of the "Three Stooges". The Characters are all real people, with a truly believable story line. My only disappointment was finding the final page. The ending is wide open for a sequel and I urge Mr. Lee to do so. Perhaps even a series.

This is a fun book to read for enjoyment if you like to chuckle out loud, and can commiserate with the frustration of fly fishing, and the outright exhilaration when a good fish is caught. Most of us can identify with this book on some level.

If after reading this book, you don't find yourself playing mental gymnastics with the rye-humored-memories imprinted on your brain - YOU'RE DEAD!

This is one of the funniest and more intriguing books I've ever read. You can't help wanting to deck a number of characters in this book - but just as surely, you'd deck anyone who would try! It's that kind of dichotemy that makes for one memorable book!

I've developed an entire list of "Elliott Notions" and "Donnyisms". Nearly every day since reading this book (which BTW I've done 4 times in as many months!).. I find myself laughing - many times fully out-loud - at situations which in my daily life mirror conditions from this book: not even related to fishing, guiding or the West. They are just the human condition - full, raw and life-on-the-limb.

Read the book. Experience the uncanny humor Robert Lee has brought to life in this whimsical tale. And answer this: "How many times did you say you'd like to 'see the movie'?"

Enjoy ...

Finished this book in one night. Actually got it for my husband, but got hooked after the first 2 pages of "browsing". "Number Three" is a funny, yet realistic representation of some of our most interesting characters here in Montana. I laughed out loud while digesting Number Three's philosophies on fishing, women, hobbies and life here in God's "last best place". I also am hoping for a sequel to follow Number Three's continued growing pains. Thank you Mr. Lee!!