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Rating(4.1 / 5.0, 34 votes)
5 stars
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34 reviews
April 17,2025
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Love reading Hemingway. The way he writes about fishing makes you feel as though you are in the boat as well
April 17,2025
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These days I'm feeling that Hemingway's writing is very descriptive of places and landscapes; but I feel like reading stories from the inside rather than the outside
April 17,2025
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I love buying and reading these types of books.
Boats, yachts, historical events and books about the sea are generally excellent. If there are sequels in your series, I would love to read them.

The beauties of owning the books of important authors cannot be discussed. I'm looking forward to your new books.

For friends who want to read this book, I leave the importance of reading a book here. I wish good luck to the sellers and customers...

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April 17,2025
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I only read the section that contained his newspaper and magazine writings on fishing, not the sections that took excerpts from his books, so the 3 star rating is based on just a small part of the book.
April 17,2025
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What can I say. Hemingway writes beautifully and one of his passions was fishing . Whether in the streams in Michigan, Spain or Idaho. And then there are the Marlin fishing episodes.
April 17,2025
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The magazine articles are best. I was hoping for more tales of Hemingways trips. Instead more of a compilation of the fishing scenes he’s written.
(Saw at Hemingway museum)
April 17,2025
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Half way through - a collection of the stories Heminwgay wrote about fishing. So let's see...I get Hemingway (check), fishing (check), drinking (checkadoo), and smoking cigars (check), and northern Michigan (double check). So yep, I'm enjoying it immensely.
April 17,2025
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Stating the obvious here, but if you like fishing and Hemingway then you’ll enjoy these excerpts from his stories that touch on that subject. Many feature magazine and newspaper articles he wrote are included as well, and these I found to be the best of all. I’m now ready to go fishing for tuna off the coast Vigo, Spain, for trout throughout Germany and Switzerland, and for marlin in the Gulf Stream off Cuba. Really great stories that place you in the center of the action, the gift he is always able to give the reader.
April 17,2025
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I had read some of this in its original context. The Old Man and The Sea is one of my favorite stories- "the fish is a fish, the old man is an old man, the sharks are sharks, and the sea is the sea"(paraphrased). Hemingway is able to show that for this man, fishing is too important to be a metaphor or to represent something else.
This book was my first reading of The Big Two Hearted River- WOW! what a great piece of writing. I really think that's just about the perfect piece of troutstream writing, it was almost too good because the trip was exactly what a fisherman wants out of a journey like that.
The nonfiction wasn't nearly as strong in my opinion, but that could be because it focuses on big marlin salt fishing, which I'm personally just not as interested in.
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