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Jan 2, 2015 at 5:35 pm #2161005
And he'll ruin fishing for the rest of us fly-fishers
Oh Mags … you too? I expected better …. there is a long, well established and perfectly good gender neutral word for one who pursues fish, no need to invent or perpetuate a new one.
Jan 3, 2015 at 10:39 am #2161184Speak English Jim…I have no idea what the heck you are talking about. :) I think you are vaguely implying that I am being Politically Correct and/or using incorrect terminology. But, I truly have no idea what you are talking about.
To both of you, I don't fish. It was just an example of how popular literature uses the outdoors as a backdrop for another message.
As for fly-fishing (or whatever vague, correct and appropriate term I should use. Jim, help a dumb dago out here?), I would argue the MOVIE "A River Runs Through It" is what made the "vague, correct and appropriate terms for fishing I am apparently mis-using" popular vs the novella that was a modest cult favorite.
And that book/movie about a "vague, correct and appropriate terms for fishing I am apparently mis-using" also uses nature as backdrop.
Neither "A River runs through it" nor "Big Two-Hearted River" is about fishing (see above. Mea culpa) nor is Wild about hiking.
And all three are arguably popular because they are NOT about the outdoor activity they portray as a backdrop to the main story.
Jan 3, 2015 at 11:18 am #2161196The use of flashbacks to tell the back-story just didn't work.
If you didn't read the book, you have no idea what the hell is going on.
Why did the brother shoot the horse in the movie? Clueless.
Where did Crazy Joe come from? No clue.
At least three flash backs of the her buying peroxide when she was a kid.
Mom takes kids to another house where there is another guy. Who is that guy? And then you never see him again.I don't mind a little flash back, but these flash backs are literally a flash, under one second.
The graphic sex scenes were fatiguing and did not contribute to the plot or the story other than to get guys to go to movie.
Jan 3, 2015 at 1:40 pm #2161234;)
Jan 3, 2015 at 1:51 pm #2161238I like your perspective on this Paul.
Jan 4, 2015 at 7:59 am #2161387I'm almost finished reading the book. Is it weird that I enjoyed the hiking story better than the personal drama? The backstory was pertinent to her reason for hiking the PCT, but it dwelled way too much on the death of her mother and the trauma her upbringing cause her. Get that out of the way in the beginning and never talk about it again. I enjoyed reading about the people she met on the trail, her trials and toughening up and accomplishing her goal and the compromises she had to make. I suffered through the flashbacks. I really didn't care, but I lack empathy.
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