Sex,Death and Leaky Waders

[mattflyguy]

I just picked up this book at the PSU library in the Harvey Section and I have had a hard time putting it down the last few nights. It is truly awesome writing. I think Gierach is my new favorite author. One question though, is this book a condensed version of all his books? Like in the index its broken out in sections. And Each section has some stories associated with it. There is a section called troutbum, even brook trout get the blues etc. And I know he has other books with the same title. I am just wondering if he just condensed all those stories from his other books and put it in this book.

 

[mattflyguy]

Sorry I made a mistake on the title. Correction is

"Death,Taxes and Leaky Waders"

 

[tomgamber]

His other, older book was Sex, Death and Fly Fishing...was actually my first favorite. Funny how death is the only constant...

 

[jayL]

I believe it's a compilation of a few of his other books. Pick the stories you like most, and go buy the books that they're from.

You'll end up with all of them anyway.

 

[scotto]

I think Jay is coorect, except his new books often contain some new material in addition to excerpts from previously published books.

 

[Acristickid]

All of his stuff is great- I think I own 10 of his works.

My least favorite is "Good Flies".

 

[pcray1231]

Yeah, I have that one (death, taxes, and leaky waders). I went out and bought some of his other stuff. That one is just excerpts from them. However, all of them that I have are written in the short story format like that. Good stuff...

 

[ErnieBall]

i have this books, its great

 

[JEEP99]

I have his entire collection,He is by far my favorite writer.I still like Trout Bum the best though.

 

[osprey]

Geirach is by far my favorite , as far as i can tell though his books are actually condensed compilations of short stories which were magazine articles at first