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Title: A Good Life Wasted: or Twenty Years as a Fishing Guide by Dave Ames ISBN: 1-58574-631-2 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Good Life Wasted writing a fabulous book
Comment: In A Good Life Wasted the author Dave Ames recounts his last twenty years as a fishing guide in the trout fishing capital of the universe, Montana. It is every true fly fisherman's dream to be reincarnated as a Montana fly fishing guide. As Ames aptly puts it in the opening line of the book, "With all my fingers and all my splayed toes I still can't count the number of millionaires who have wished out loud that they could be me."
They wouldn't wish it if they read on as Ames describes living in a rat infested trailer, bouncing checks and using a log in the great outdoors as a temporary outhouse until he can buy a toilet.
Ames' career begins as a hydrologist for the federal government who one day goes "postal" by punching a clock - literally. He bluffs his way into a job as a fishing guide working for a local Blackfoot Native American known affectionately as Kingfish. He plods his was through his early guiding days and his life becomes entangled in a contradictory world of haves and have nots.
The numerous stories Ames recounts meld seamlessly with each other and offer more lessons on life's moral and religious significance than on fishing.
Most books lose steam after the first couple of chapters - not this one. It becomes more intriguing and gets better as it goes. It is truly a page turner. The surest sign of a great book for me is when I am done do I tell myself I want more. The answer here is a resounding yes!
So, Mr. Ames, during the long Montana winters get cracking and put pen to pad and finger to keyboard and allow us to be temporarily reincarnated as you.
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Title: A Fishing Life Is Hard Work by Art Scheck ISBN: 0811700410 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman by John Gierach ISBN: 0743229924 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 02 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Spring Creeks by Mike Lawson, Dave Hall, Thomas McGuane ISBN: 0811700682 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Voelker's Pond: A Robert Traver Legacy by Ed Wargin, James McCullough ISBN: 1932399003 Publisher: Huron River Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Zipping My Fly: Moments in the Life of an American Sportsman by Rich Tosches ISBN: 0399528199 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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