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Summary: A poignant, beautiful story.
Review: A poignant, beautiful story of a young man living with two eccentric older relatives in the Ozarks. This young man learns what is important in life and the reader learns with him. Not so much about fly fishing,it is about relationships, understanding and diversity. Middleton enthralls you from the beginning and I would highly recommend this book for anyone who enjoys stories about life and learning.
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Summary: Brought me extreme pleasure!
Review: A story that grabs you immediately and holds you tight. What a great experience! I'm sure no young man would ask to live in a world without modern conveniences and yet I'm sure Harry wouldn't have traded his life for that of any other. Sure impressed me, so much so that immediately sent the book off to my son the minute I finished it. Only wish I could find it in a library edition. It's a book to be treasured.
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Summary: The Earth is Enough...
Review: A wonderful story that is told a little pedantically (unfortunately).
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Summary: The Earth Truly is Enough!
Review: Harry Middleton writes and captures the real meaning of the most important things in life. This book is one of my all time favorites
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Summary: A truly beautiful work that will stand the test of time.
Review: Harry should take his place next to other great authors. Themessage that this book carries is in the depth of caring and auniversal consideration for life, along with the message that these things do not come from the material comforts on which we have we have come to depend. I think of this book and its lessons often in this era when our children eat drugs like candy, flock to the artificiality of backsteet urban culture and shoot each other just to "belong". I think it offers a moral reality that they yearn for. I agree with the reviewer from WA, this should be made by Redford into a movie. Maybe with Newman or Ralph Waite with some of the old" Walton" cast (especially the narrator). Does anyone know how to contact him? This book will remain number one on my bookshelf. Its too bad we lost Harry so early. Now we have to hope some publisher will buy the rights and re-issue "Starlight Creek Angling Society" so the rest of us can read the continuing saga.
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Summary: An exceptional book about a young boy coming of age
Review: Haunted by a troubled past, a young boy is turned over to two enigmatic guardians, men as old as the hills they farm and elusive as the trout they fish. Seeking strength and purpose from life, the boy learns that the very pulse of life beats from within the deep constancy of the earth, and from one's devotion to it. Amidst the rhythm of an ancient cadence, he discovers his home: a farm, a forest, a mountain stream, and the eye of a trout rising.
"A haunting book, beautiful and funny and sad, written with enormous warmth and grace." --Ted Leeson
"This is a book about love for all things that matter...a profound ode to the earth and to mankind, governed by respect, gentleness, and humor." --Russ Chatham
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Summary: A Story Of Life
Review: Humor. Tragedy. Beauty and depth. Great characters. Middleton has a wonderful pen. I thought it started out very slow, but the rest was good. This is a story about life. Although there were three of them the old men reminded me of Walter Mathau and Jack Lemmon -they were quite humorous- and Starlight Creek reminded me of a place I go where no one can find me. If you are a fly fisherman you will connect with the environment here; the ecosystem and oneness of life; the beauty of the landscape and our role in it. Not in the wine sipper's hoity toity way, but in the way of our old grandfathers. Real outdoorsmen. Guys who drove old trucks, wore patched waders and took biscuits with them rolled up in kitchen towels. If you aren't a flyfisherman perhaps you will be stirred by what it's like to get to the creek at daybreak, with hopes that a trout will rise.
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Summary: A Story Of Life
Review: Humor. Tragedy. Beauty and depth. Great characters. Middleton has a wonderful pen. I thought it started out very slow, but the rest was good. This is a story about life. Although there were three of them the old men reminded me of Walter Mathau and Jack Lemmon -they were quite humorous- and Starlight Creek reminded me of a place I go where no one can find me. If you are a fly fisherman you will connect with the environment here; the ecosystem and oneness of life; the beauty of the landscape and our role in it. Not in the wine sipper's hoity toity way, but in the way of our old grandfathers. Real outdoorsmen. Guys who drove old trucks, wore patched waders and took biscuits with them rolled up in kitchen towels. If you aren't a flyfisherman perhaps you will be stirred by what it's like to get to the creek at daybreak, with hopes that a trout will rise.
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Summary: faux faulkner
Review: I didn't know anything about this book before ordering. It came up as a suggestion on my Amazon account as a result of my buying several other flyfishing related books. This book is extremely well written in a descriptive, intelligent manner. Even if you have never fly fished in your life, the narrative is inviting, contemplative, warm, intelligent and heart warming. I read alot. This book is high on my list of all time for best book ever read. I encourage you to experience the pleasure and tears this book produces...
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Summary: One of the best books I have ever read.
Review: I didn't know anything about this book before ordering. It came up as a suggestion on my Amazon account as a result of my buying several other flyfishing related books. This book is extremely well written in a descriptive, intelligent manner. Even if you have never fly fished in your life, the narrative is inviting, contemplative, warm, intelligent and heart warming. I read alot. This book is high on my list of all time for best book ever read. I encourage you to experience the pleasure and tears this book produces...
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