Read?? I just discovered Sudoku, and I’m hooked, can’t seem to find time to do anything else any more, damned things have got me like fly tying did…
Great idea.
I am about to start “The old man and the boy” by Robert Ruark.
Mark you have to watch out for the Wheel series, they are addicting.
Jon from Idaho
Recently finished “1491 - New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus”. An outstanding read for anyone interested in what was happening with North and South American cultures (and the environment) prior to the arrival of European diseases and violent invasions.
Presently reading three books in rotation:
“Cash” an autobiography by Johnny Cash. Very good book.
“The Control of Nature” by John McPhee. What a trip!
“Overlord” a British historian’s very fair and insightful reporting of the Normandy invasion and related post D-Day battles.
Joe
“Better small than not at all.”
About halfway thru Fish Fights: A Hall of Fame Quest by Bob Rich. It’s one man’s quest to catch 10 record big-game fish to become the first angler inducted into the 25 year old Metropolitan South Florida Fishing Tournament Hall of Fame. Signed & inscribed copy lent by a neighborhood fishing friend who’s childhood school buddy was a guide in the book!
I have been reading “Silk, Fur and Feather” by Skues, a recent acquisition.
I am also re-reading the Jack Aubrey series by Patrick O’Brian, the complete Jane Austin (a very funny ,haha, lady).
I also read and re-read a lot of American Science Fiction, too numerous to name here.
Donald/Scotland
I assume that you are asking about reading for pleasure instead of work or business. With my usual inability to commit, I am reading three or four books at the same time for pleasure. My main effort is going into Howell Raines’ book, Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis and Larry Elder’s book, The Ten Things You Can’t Say In America (very much like "The Joke). In addition, I’m slowly working through Bob Clouser’s new book, Engle’s Tying Small Flies and Schollmeyer’s Emergers. Yes, I read a lot about fly fishing and fly tying!
You had better learn to be a happy camper. You only get one try at this campground and it’s a real short camping season.
Honestly, this surprises me to admit it but I’ve not “read” a book in years. Years!
Seems I do lots of short reading in magazines, lots, but I’ve never been a reader, per se’.
My latest addiction is The Smithsonian Magazine. Began reading it last summer on the family vacation when it was too hot to muskie fish. I sat down under a huge pine tree and…didn’t get up for 3 hrs! Then went to the lodge scrounging up all the old copies for later! Now I subscribe.
Does that count? BG
I once had a girlfriend who was a literature T.A at the U. of MN. She had quite the libraray at her place and I actually got quite taken by a few Dickens’ novels and also the Autobiography of JRR Tolkien of The Hobbits fame.
Funny too, because all through school that “classical crap” (cough, cough) Dickens and the likes, was terribly “dry” (I figured) to read when it was shoved down my throat in school. Man, was I missing something!
Funny how things change, eh?
Jeremy.
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I have reading a ton for school of late, but my last fun book was Freakonomics. A really amazing way to look at things, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I enjoyed reading this thread as well.
Pisces - great minds think alike! I, too, enjoyed Freakonomics. The thought processes and the way the author recasts stuff we see all around us in novel ways are wonderful. In fact, I still am having a hard time figuring what flaws, if any, exist in his analyses.
Another thought provoking and kinda scary book is Thomas Friedman’s “The World Is Flat”. He’s a major editor for the New York Times, and although I don’t necessarily agree with everything he writes, this book also takes commonplace stuff and recombines it into entirely new forms. This has to do with global trends which affect us all more than people realize, and since you are still planning your career, you would do well to read this thoroughly.
I always keep some ffishing books in the reading mill. A current surprise is “Philadelphia On the Fly”, which talks in a very literary way about ffishing right here in my own backyard.
Like Jeremy, I do a lot of magazine reading: in addition to the dozen or so FF mags I subscribe to, I devour The New Yorker, Fortune, and Business Week. Any National Geographics, Discovers, Forbes, Smithsonians, Economists or food/travel magazines that get in front of me get digested too.
And I spend a fair amount of time reading map books (do they count?)
tl
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I will have to read the “World is Flat”. Since I have 4 polisci classes I get my fill of reading so I must admit that I have resumed the life of not reading for fun. I now read nothing but Sports Illustrated and the Economist (which I receive at home) so I don’t have to go anywhere. your recommended book will not come til this summer as my classes will keep my nose in a book!
After reading some financial books, I needed a break, so I picked up “WrestleCrap: The Very Worst of Professional Wrestling”. The title pretty much says it all. It details some of the worst ideas wrestling promoters have ever come up with. It’s “must” reading for any pro wrestling fan.
Up next is the sequel, “The Death of WCW”!
Just finishing up “Three Men In A Boat” Jerome K. Jerome I imagine about late 1890’s three young men and a dog on a voyage up the Thames River in England. Hilarious and a mention of fishing…1890’s style. I can’t put it down. Rich
This post cuaght my eye - I am currently reading Listening Point by Sigurd F Olson. I haven’t read a book in quite some time that sums up the wilderness experience.
Hey Broadwing, … Warm Welcome to you.
I finally finished Balancing Act and will start up on Heritage Lost - The Crisis in Canada’s Forests by Donald MacKay (1985).
Sort of 60% for fun, … 40% for work 
Christopher Chin, Jonquiere Quebec
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Thanks very much! I have been lurking around the site for about a year now and find it to be an excellent resource. Seems like great people and I’m excited to give back while learning more!
these are on my reading table at the moment:
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J. Edgar Hoover: the man and the secrets
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A still Forest Pool by jack Kornfield - insight meditation/Buddhist
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Steel Beach by John Varley - SciFi
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Coroner by Thomas Noguchi- did Marily, John Belushi, Janis Joplin…
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The Tera Beyond by MacCloud - SciFi
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Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock - lovely English fantasy
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The Burden of Proof - Scott Turow
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The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Dr. Li Shisui
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My flyfishing catalogs
I read at least two books a week. When I am on a roll I read a book daily. Lucky me - I am a librarian and I “have” twenty thousand books.
Will have some fly fising recommendations in a couple days.
My favorite author is James Lee Burke.
Good reading to you.
“My Name is Bill” by Susan Cheever. A very well written biography of Bill Wilson. A remarkable story of a remarkable man.
I’m now into Paul Gruchow’s “Boundary Waters.” FYI, Paul suffered from a fatal case of depression and committed suicide about a year of so ago, but his writing is quite thought provoking and well done. Although little if anything to do with fly or any other kid of fishing, his “The Necessity of Quiet Places” is a book anyone who enjoy the essense of solitude will enjoy. JGW
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RW here,
John Gierach and a first edition of John McDonald’s “The Notes and Letters of Theodore Gordon”. Quite opposite ends of the pole I’d say, eh?
Later, RW
“We fish for pleasure; I for mine, you for yours.” -James Leisenring on fishing the wet fly-
I am half way through THE PENELOPIAD by Margret Atwood.
Jonezee If you like Three Men in a Boat look for To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Wilis; inspired by Jerome’s book and a great read.
all leaders tangle; mine are just better at it than most. Jim