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

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Summary: Not for me
Review: 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.

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Summary: Spit milk out of your nose funny
Review: 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!

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Summary: Spit milk out of your nose funny
Review: 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!

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Summary: Not a book for sportmen or flyfishers
Review: 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.

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Summary: Funny...the first time
Review: The introduction to this book is three pages long and funny. The 37 chapters that follow are just painful renditions of the same five jokes Tosches told at the beginning. I believe I have a fairly morally flexible, open-minded sense of humor, but even I can stand only so many retellings of the same hillbilly-sleeps-with-a-sheep story.

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

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Summary: 100 snorts!
Review: Too funny, from start to finish. Tosches' account of being pushed into a river by a herd of dairy cows in Wyoming had me laughing until, well, until I stopped. Lots of great tales. Funny, and touching too! Only the miserable won't laugh their way through this gem.