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Summary: What LOVE is all about? Read this...
Review: I was touched by the movie before getting the book for a collection. The story is a heartwarming piece that covers all kinds of LOVES -- your family, your friends, your partner, even towards our nature! Recommend to friends who need a healing portion for their heart!
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Summary: The Best Book I ever Read
Review: This book was a touching story of a youman growing up in Montana. His experiences with flyfishing was inspiring even for a non-fisherman like myself. If you are looking for a great read to relax, laugh and cry, read A River Runs Through
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Summary: Beautiful.
Review: This book touched my heart like no story or movie I have ever experienced. Every father will read this and think of their sons. Every son will think of their father and brothers.
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Summary: it was touching and informative
Review: i think that maclean has done a good job in describing fly fishing. it really inspired me to try it sometime. it seems to make fly fishing sound like a relaxing sport... it conveys many moods. i got a point of view from living in the woods, the mountains, etc.. roughing it.. and i realize how much harder it is than living my good ol city life. it didn't usually get boring but too much description about fly fishing got me confused at times but other than that, it was clearly understandable and readable. i'm glad i chose this book for my honors english reading... it was more of "lesiure" reading than "forced" reading.
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Summary: A Book I Want to Keep
Review: I borrowed this book from a friend and am now buying it. It is something I'll want to read again and have my children read. MacLean saves for us a time and way of life mostly vanished and translates a sense of beauty, love, and artistry in rugged settings and situations. Especially thoughtful in the way it considers how we try to help and understand those we love and the trouble we have in doing so. It was also a fine movie
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Summary: fishing, family & faith...
Review: Maclean tells us that there is no clear distinction between faith and fishing in his family, and as we read, we are convinced of this. For every family that has struggled to understand itself, this book rings true. For those of us who are devoted to fly fishing, family and faith, there is no better literary work available. This is a classic! (Forget the film!)
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Summary: Z-z-z-z-z
Review: If you think fly fishing is better than sex, this book is pornographic. Brilliant (I guess, what would I know?) expositions on the art and technique pad the story. Take these out, and it would be a good short story (or movie) for the non-fisherman. Non-fisherman who aren't looking for a good nap should see the movie instead. It's not bad.
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Summary: Flawless American Literature
Review: Norman's stories are undoubtedly the finest collection of American literature I've ever read. I can not read the final paragraph of the title story without crying. . . I've read it dozens of times now. Truly "haunting."
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Summary: damn good story
Review: probably my favorite story. i'm learning to fly fish as soon as possible. has the gripping prose of cormac mccarthy but is more entertaining. very cool
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Summary: A spectacular beginning and ending
Review: This book fell somewhat short of my expectations. The opening pages are as lovely as one could hope, and the ending paragraphs--beginning with the lament that he doesn't fish the deep waters any longer and leading up to his confession that he is haunted by waters--are heartbreakingly beautiful. But in between I found it to be less compelling than I had wished. As an irrelevant side note, I would like to mention that I was fortunate enough to meet Maclean, who was extremely feeble and confined to a wheel chair by that time, two weeks before his death. I was working in a bookstore at the time, caring for the literature section, and I was happy to tell him what an enormous number of passionate fans he had.
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