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So two fishing books this year: The River Why and this one. This one from the counterculture and the other from the more ( dare I say it?) mainstream. Maybe Trout Fishing in America just wasn't the same after the movie, An Officer and a Gentleman, because I get to the end and all I can hear is Louis Gossett, Jr. shouting "Mayooo Naisse."
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Oct 08, 2014
Elizabeth
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Just met someone who briefly roomed with him in the 60s. He had a funny anecdote about Brautigan loving his blonde girlfriends--until one accidentally dyed her hair green. Not the reason why I'm interested in reading the book, though. I like the Beats.
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