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I think the author that captures fishing best is Hemingway. If you’ve never fished, or never quite got why fishing might be enjoyable, I’d highly recommend ‘Isl

I think the author that captures fishing best is Hemingway. If you’ve never fished, or never quite got why fishing might be enjoyable, I’d highly recommend ‘Islands In The Stream” by Hemingway, or his collection of short stories “Hemingway on fishing”. He does an amazing job of making the reader “feel” what it feels like to fish. Fishing is all about how it makes you feel (IMO). It’s less about the technical aspects of rods and equipment and strategy (as it might seem to a non fisherman, since fishermen tak about this stuff incessantly) more about a state of mind that no other activity can emulate.

vram22 8y ago
Another interesting book about fishing by Hemingway is "The Old Man and The Sea". I read it as a teenager. Googled it now because of your comment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea Only now did I get to know this about it - from the Wikipedia article: [ The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952.[1] It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba.[2] In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.[2] ]
- thermalgobshite 8y ago
  A book I love (and that's saying something because I never got the whole love of reading) is "The Young Man and the Sea". I have no idea the author or relation to Hemingways work, as I've never read "The Old Man and the Sea".
  - vram22 8y ago
    Interesting. Will check that book out.
andyjohnson0 8y ago
Hemmingway's two-part story Big Two-Hearted River is one of my favourite. I don't fish or eat animals, but I like the minimalist-but-detailed style. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Two-Hearted_River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Two-Hearted_River

vram22 8y ago

Another interesting book about fishing by Hemingway is "The Old Man and The Sea". I read it as a teenager. Googled it now because of your comment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea Only now did I get to know this about it - from the Wikipedia article: [ The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952.[1] It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba.[2] In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.[2] ]

thermalgobshite 8y ago
A book I love (and that's saying something because I never got the whole love of reading) is "The Young Man and the Sea". I have no idea the author or relation to Hemingways work, as I've never read "The Old Man and the Sea".
- vram22 8y ago
  Interesting. Will check that book out.

andyjohnson0 8y ago

Hemmingway's two-part story Big Two-Hearted River is one of my favourite. I don't fish or eat animals, but I like the minimalist-but-detailed style. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Two-Hearted_River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Two-Hearted_River