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Return to Travers Corners: Stories

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Poor Scott Waldie. He is one of the gifted writers of our time but he has been relegated to the backwater of fly fishing stories. Not a huge potential audience there. Especially, not a large feminine audience (i.e., the ones who actually buy books). Furthermore, he doesn't compete well with Gerach and Holt in terms of, "and then I caught a 26 inch brown but Jack caught a 27 inch rainbow," which appeal to the guys who buy these books.

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Waldie is alone in being able to weave together stories about a semi-fictional town with its visitors, part-timers, and residents that truly capture the good and bad about the popularization of the Northwest.

His stories would lose no relevance if he would write them using tennis, polo, or canasta as the common thread because they are really about people and how they interact. They expose the good and the bad and how they intersect in a delightful and thoughtful manner and in the process his writing flows with more memorable lines than you can count.

Hopefully, he will soon find an agent or publisher who will market him for the gifted writer that he is, rather than pushing him into an eddy that he cannot row out of (pardon the dangling participle).

the book being short stories I can pick it up and read a great tale before going to bed. The charactors in this book are so real you can't help but love them!

I discovered Scott Waldie from a fly shop owner in Nashville one Saturday when I stepped in to buy some flies. He told me that Travers Corners was one of the best book that he'd ever read. Then he told me that Return to Travers Corners was even better. I was skeptical because Travers Corners was amazing. The second book in this series lives up to the first and surpasses it in some ways.

It is not a series of fishing essays that only an angler would pick up but a series of deeply moving stories about small town life in rural Montana. The stories are loosely based on a real town and people. However, fly fishing and the laid-back philosophy that often accompanies it find their way into every story in an unobtrusive way. One of them will move any reader, regardless of his or her feelings on fishing.

This book reads quick and if you want to read it, you should get all three of Scott Waldie's books because you want to read them one after the other.

This book makes you want to pack up and move to Travers Corners. The small town, closeness with the characters is what makes this book. Like a Norman Rockwell painting this book brings to the reader what most want, a slowed down, easy going pace in a hectic world.

What a fantastic book. Didn't know wether to laugh or to cry most of the time. Being from Montana it makes me long to be back it the little town i came from. Waldie is able to truly capture the small town feel and make you feel like you are right there in the middle. Congrats again to Mr. Waldie