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Summary: Redneck Laureate
Review: This book will not open a closed mind. If you believe it is impossible to hunt or fish and at the same time respect both the environment and your quarry, continue to believe so.
If you understand what it is to sometime kill what you eat, that no-one respects a critter more than those who hunt it, and if you haven't bought this book already just because it has the best title you've seen this millennium, then buy it. Buy a copy for all your friends too, or you're going to drive them crazy telling them that there's this guy who's written a book you're reading who's actual written down all those things you've been talking about for years.
Writing about them pretty well, too. Steve Chapple can really carry a sentence. Think Hemingway's elegance, Twain's wit, Heller's (in)sanity, Rachel Carson's conviction, and a transcendence of snappy modern journalese.
Those things you and you friends have been talking about? Check some of the essay titles ' The Bambi Syndrome, Killer Cats, TV Hunting, Tavern Animals, Do Fish Have Orgasms ' plus much on Vegetarians, Hypocrites, Bears, Animal Rights, Family, British People. Quite a lot on fishing, too.
However, it's the incidental detail, the lateral observation, the intelligent musing that lifts this all to a level of unique insight.
Did I mention I liked this book? The only criticism I have is some sloppy editing, maybe it was a choice between reading proofs and going fishing. Probably made the right choice.
What, finally, is an eco-redneck? I'm still not certain that I know.
But I think I may be one.
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