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

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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!

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.

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.

I'm an avid fly fisher. I love all of John Gierach's books with his unpretentious insights and subtle humor. I was hoping this would be along of the same lines, but it's very different and just not my style. It's certainly not one of those pretentious "meaning of life" fly fishing books (which I also don't care for). However, the humor is anything but subtle -- it's direct, repetitive and after a couple pages very predictable, and at least for me irratating. I read about a chapter and never finished anymore.

Humorist Rich Tosches explodes on the literary scene with a book that is simultaneously funny and touching and introspective and funny and did I mention funny?

To enjoy this book, you don't need to be someone who enjoys flyfishing -- just someone who likes to laugh.

Tosches gives you plenty of opportunity with a variety of clever observations of people and life to laugh-out-loud humor.

After finishing Zipping My Fly, my only question is: when is Rich going to write another book? I can't wait.

Everyone should go read Rich Tosches' book, "Zipping My Fly." From beginning to end, I was doubled over with laughter. Being an avid fly-fisher myself, the stories (i.e. Tosches hooking himself and friends with flys throughout the book) hit some of the tourments of fishing right on the nose. He also writes hilarious stories of fishing with his family that will make anyone want to go pick up this hobby. This book is great for all the fishers on your holiday shopping lists...and all the non-fishers as well.

Funny. Really funny. If you don't laugh at "Zipping My Fly" count yourself among the seriously humor-challenged.

Zipping My Fly is a fantastic read. I've always thought that if a book isn't worth reading twice it isn't worth reading. This book is definately worth reading more than twice. Admittedly Tosches at times tries a little too hard to be funny, however more often than not he is extremely funny. I have never read a book that caused me to laugh out loud more than Zipping My Fly. By reading the other reviews of this book it seems to be a book that you either love or hate. I can't personally understand why anyone wouldn't love it. Anyone who flyfishes and is honest with themselves has to laugh out loud about Lee and his 8x tippet. It's comforting to know there are other guys out there who passionately enjoy flyfishing and can't stand the Lee's of the world. I suppose those who can't stand this book are likely the Lee's of the world. Read the book and you'll know what I mean. Thanks Mr. Tosches for an absolutely fantastic book and please write another one soon.

I love Geirach and have every single book he's ever written. I have also read Lyons and Babb's and a host of others. Those authors are humerous but temper their humor with fresh insiteful thought's as well. This on the other hand, was the most diapointing (supposed) fly fishing related work I've ever come across. It is non-stop non-sense front to back. I read the first chapter then skimmed the rest just to see if the author would ever settle down and put together some sort of reasonable cognisant thought somewhere. If he did I never saw it. Just a constant on-slaught of dry repetitive jokes. Not for me.......

I bought this for my Dad, who loves fly-fishing. The day I gave it to him, I heard him laughing out loud from the other room! When I found out that the book was that funny, I thought I'd give it a try. As soon as he finished the book, I borrowed it from him. Now, I'm not a big fan of sports in general, but I LOVED every sentence of this book. It's laugh-out-loud funny! Buy one for the sportsman in your life, and buy one for yourself, too! It makes a great gift! And you might just get some insight into the minds of die-hard fishermen!