Helpful Score: 4
This book has only two other stories other than "A River Runs Through It" - the first 115 pages are the novel. It is a beautiful story (and the movie barely did it justice).
Helpful Score: 2
I tend to not like short stories so I couldn't really get into it. If you like short stories, this books has a collection of them.
Helpful Score: 1
Loved the movie, and always wondered what the book was like. I'll stick with the movie. This is boring stuff. I can see why they made the changes for the film. Had to do something to make it interesting. I couldn't even finish it. Very dull.
Helpful Score: 1
The movie was great, in large part because the story is so well-told. Different from the movie and yet able to stand alone as a great read. Includes "Logging and Pimping and 'Your Pal, Jim"{", and USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky". U of Chicago Press oversize PB published in 1976.
Helpful Score: 1
The kingdom of heaven and fly fishing
I began with the movie, which I watch religiously every week, no kid. "My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as eternal salvation--come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy."
I can see how some may not see what fly fishing has anything to do with religious matters, and what it has to do with art, or grace. But to those who do an activity for its own sake may be able to connect the dots. For me it's a revelation really, to see this kind of dialogue on American soil. I was under the impression one had to travel to China to speak of activities as meditation, or common activities as a prelude to grace.
"Power comes not from power everywhere, but from knowing where to put it on."
That could also be said of the martial arts. And the Maclean clan was saying it many decades before I was born.
I began with the movie, which I watch religiously every week, no kid. "My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as eternal salvation--come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy."
I can see how some may not see what fly fishing has anything to do with religious matters, and what it has to do with art, or grace. But to those who do an activity for its own sake may be able to connect the dots. For me it's a revelation really, to see this kind of dialogue on American soil. I was under the impression one had to travel to China to speak of activities as meditation, or common activities as a prelude to grace.
"Power comes not from power everywhere, but from knowing where to put it on."
That could also be said of the martial arts. And the Maclean clan was saying it many decades before I was born.
