Zipping My Fly: Moments in the Life of an American Sportsman [Hardcover]

Rich Tosches (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 5, 2002

Armed with a rod, a pen, and an eccentric sense of humor, Rich Tosches begins his globe-trotting exploration in the Grand Teton Mountains, site of the World Fly Fishing Championship. From the choices of a creek in Massachusetts, where he was first introduced to fly fishing, to the wilds of Alaska and New Zealand to his Colorado home, Tosches offers up a side-splitting collection of observations on every angle-and angler-of one of America's favorite pastimes.

Editorial Reviews

Review

...his humor is an explosive mix of Dave Sedaris and Dave Barry. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review, October 27, 2002

About the Author

Rich Tosches has written for a number of national magazines and makes his home with his family in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to take advantage of excellent fly fishing and other outdoor activities. A former Los Angeles Times and UPI writer, Tosches has been the metro columnist for the Colorado Springs Gazette since 1993.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Perigee Trade; 1st edition (November 5, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399528199
• ISBN-13: 978-0399528194
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,850,060 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spit milk out of your nose funny, November 30, 2002

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Maggie (LA, California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zipping My Fly: Moments in the Life of an American Sportsman (Hardcover)

If you didn't laugh at Rich Tosches' book, you are among the humor-challenged. His stories aren't only for fisherman, either. I don't stop laughing until I reached the last page, and then I opened to page one and read it all over!

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Zipping My Fly:Moments in the Life of an American Sportsman, November 2, 2002

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Michael J Roach (Racine, Wisconsin United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zipping My Fly: Moments in the Life of an American Sportsman (Hardcover)

This book made me laugh out loud. I thought you would need to know a lot about fly fishing to enjoy this book, but that is not the case. In fact, my wife, who knows nothing about fly fishing, heard me laugh when I read this book and decided to read it. Now she is the one laughing out loud while she reads it. Tosches has the unique ability to look at any situation and find some subtle humor. This is an enjoyable read, and I would highly recommend it. I can't wait for his next book.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not a book for sportmen or flyfishers, February 8, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Zipping My Fly: Moments in the Life of an American Sportsman (Hardcover)

Rich Tosches may consider himself a humorist, but his humor is irritating, repetitive and unworthy of being published by a known publisher.Tosches may be a good flyfisherman, but I doubt anyone could take his brand of pointless jokes and nonsensical ramblings more than an hour.His book is poorly organized, he has few if any meaningful insights on outdoor experience and seems to shift between his LA experiences and living in Colorado.He can't make a reasonable point about an experience without dropping in a dry humor comment,then says "seriously" before recovering from every bad joke. Save your time and money avoiding this bad effort.