Heads up for anybody who is a fan of John Gierch; New book, A Fly Rod of Your Own due to be released May 4th, you can pre-order on Amazon;
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New John Gierach Book, A Fly Rod of Your Own.
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Re: New John Gierach Book, A Fly Rod of Your Own.
Will look forward to that. Gierach's books never fail to please.
Re: New John Gierach Book, A Fly Rod of Your Own.
Just read a review of this, sounds a good un! Has any read "standing in a river waving a stick"?
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Re: New John Gierach Book, A Fly Rod of Your Own.
Our signed stock should arrive in the next few days. Can't wait to get a proper look at a copy.
Re: New John Gierach Book, A Fly Rod of Your Own.
Just reading my copy now. It was good to be reminded again just how brilliantly Gierach writes ; he is concise ,wise , erudite , very funny and so, so stylish . In my view there's not a better writer alive on our sport. I have given up on most contemporary writers - maybe I have been unlucky in what I have chosen to read but sometimes it feels as though it's Chris Yates (undoubtedly one of our very best) , then a host of people trying (and failing) to write like Yates and finally , at the bottom of the barrel , a bunch of semi literate drongoes devoting their deathless prose to carp rigs or , even worse, recounting scatological stories of merry japes on ...ahem...carping socials, innit . My , how we roared .......
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Re: New John Gierach Book, A Fly Rod of Your Own.
Had john taken up rod making ?
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Re: New John Gierach Book, A Fly Rod of Your Own.
I visited Oxfam books recently and found a lot of angling books, somebody had cleared out their library. There were three books by Gierach. As members rave about him I bought all three. I decided to read them in the order they were published and started with Troutbum.
Initially I found it hard to read but then I got used to his style of writing and the stories flowed. I didn't like the 'good old boy', truck, backwoodsman, ye ha continually pounding me into the dust. I couldn't relate to the big sky, bears, camp fire stories because that's not my type of trout fishing.
I finished reading Troutbum and started on his next book. To my dismay it was more of the same. Are all his books the same?
Initially I found it hard to read but then I got used to his style of writing and the stories flowed. I didn't like the 'good old boy', truck, backwoodsman, ye ha continually pounding me into the dust. I couldn't relate to the big sky, bears, camp fire stories because that's not my type of trout fishing.
I finished reading Troutbum and started on his next book. To my dismay it was more of the same. Are all his books the same?
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Re: New John Gierach Book, A Fly Rod of Your Own.
Firebird,
I will post it to you free of charge if you pm your address :-)
I will post it to you free of charge if you pm your address :-)