Reddit mentions: The best funny hunting & fishing books

Is there a geographical disparity between where sharks are tagged? I skimmed the site and it seems like they focus on Atlantic sharks but there are ones in various other places. I'd just like to know more about their methodology before drawing conclusions about where they predominantly live. For instance, the Farallon Islands off of San Francisco are a known meeting place for great whites from all over the pacific. I don't remember all the details but eh... I read that one book by Susan Casey that was interesting. Thank you for providing an interesting data visualization!!

This is a wonderful book. Hard to beat the movie, but it does!

A great light read

Also any of the Sookie Stackhouse books!

I love reading books!

I guess I've just always sort of grouped nonsense with magical realism and experimental fantasy as being the "out there" side of fantasy. It's interesting that people are studying what makes them the same and different.

I'm all fed up with magic systems. I prefer fantasy with little or no magic. If I'm reading a story and the writer starts going on & on about their great magic system, I pretty much know I'm done. I've been there before and they're just going to keep indulging themselves, harping on it. I'm also fed up with magic schools and the wizard/apprentice relationship because they all just use it to infodump their dialogue with more data copy/pasted from their worldbuilding files.

I'm fed up with elves. Elves, dwarves, dragons, vampires, werewolves, fairies. And all the permutations thereof, urban elves, dark elves, steampunk elves riding in dirigibles. I've read lots of stories about all of those things, and I enjoyed them. But what I really love to see now is when someone builds their world from scratch with fewer preconceptions. I really like fantasy where writers have made their own world, their own beasts and races of sapients, their own cultures.

I've been reading some counterculture stuff from the 60s and 70s. Psychedelics and a lot of new ideas such as free love and stream of consciousness stoned writing just sort of crashed into the existing media, and there's some weird speculative fiction.

I don't know if you've encountered them, but how would you categorize Richard Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar, and Robert F. Jones' Blood Sport? They are contemporary fantasy of some types, I suppose, and definitely in the out there.

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy includes all 5 that were written by Douglas Adams. The one I have on my shelf has a different cover than what Amazon currently shows, but it looks like it's all there. There is another Hitchhiker's book by Eoin Colfer working on Douglas Adams' notes called And Another Thing... you might also want to check out. Though you're probably better off switching to Dirk Gently before you get to that one.

No, but as it happens I just got an Amazon gift card for a xmas bonus and will do so!
Here's a link for anyone else who is interested but lazy:
And Another Thing - Kindle Edition

My Dad in law got me fishing very small streams with a worm and a spinning rod. You don't really cast, the stream is so small you just kind of swing your worm into a hole let it roll down.

That was really fun and I wanted to get into Fly fishing because I live near really good fly fishing and a lot of the rivers around are artificial lures only which makes the spinning rod and worm not work. So I bought a fly pole but it is really hard to fly fish with a fly pole and really small choked streams. So I would worm fish small streams and fly fish bigger streams. But I yearned to fish the small streams with flies.

Then I read this book called All Fisherman are liars by John Gierach.

https://www.amazon.com/Fishermen-Liars-Gierachs-Fly-fishing-Library-ebook/dp/B00DPM909M/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1497463045&sr=8-4&keywords=John+Gierach

In the book there is a chapter on Tenkara and the simplicity and how it is awesome for small streams. Then I youtubed tenkara and found some of Daniel Galhardo's videos and also some from Teton Tenkara that showed Tom Davis fishing some really small streams.

In under 24 hours I went from not even knowing Tenkara existed to being a super fanatic. A few weeks later I had my first rod and I have loved it ever since.

Bring a towel? Any good hitchhiker should have one on hand. It's the most useful thing ever.

Also, if you have one, others will think you're a froody guy and offer you anything you need that you may have lost along the way.

Edit: The sweet, sweet mana of reddit karma! Thanks, I'm totally digging out my old, battered 800 page 'Ultimate hitchhikers guide' for a RE-read. By the way, you guys know some dude wrote a sixth book? It's called 'And another thing'. Not as good, but in the spirit of Adams.

Edit v2.0: https://www.amazon.com/Another-Thing-Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy/dp/140139521X

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, by Douglas Adams is a book from the much beloved Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Well worth a read.

I was interested too. Best I could find during a google search was that it is from this book. But my source was a twitter comment, so take that for what it's worth:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0778330680/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_g49PAb9AZM6VX

If any of you are interested in reading the rest, my friend SyrinxGM (not a reddit user) who sent me this tells me that it's from this book.

Anything by Ted Leeson, especially The Habit of Rivers and Inventing Montana. For my money, the best writer of the bunch.

Anybody interested in some interesting background on Gloucester and the state of the fishing industry in general might be interested to read Mark Kurlansky's The Last Fish Tale. And for a broader insightful look at the crisis of the global fishing industry, check out Paul Greenberg's Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food. I just finished both and heartily recommend them.

Because people sometimes invest themselves emotionally in things that they enjoy. In this case, fans have had years to reminisce over and dissect the original seasons, so the movies and newest season had high expectations to live up to. When they didn't appear to meet those expectations, it was easy to take it personally and believe that the show's good name had been tarnished.

Imagine, in some crazy alternate universe, that someone decided to write a 6th addition to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, 8 years after Douglas Adams's death? A book that just artificially extended the characters and storyline. Wouldn't that be absurd?

I amazon searched the authors name from the top of the page. It's called Jack Fish. Here's a link, the reviews are amusing. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1569474168

Customer review by BatMan from Amazon-

>This book was amazing for reading to my kids.They especially loved when Batman Fucked him in the asshole.Great Book to jack off to while i'm at it. '
But overall my kids couldn't get enough of it!

Douglas Adams was, at times, a pretty profound guy.

Dove sold the license for them to the BBC, which has released them on CD. They're findable on ebay, amazon, etc.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Volume/dp/0754075710

This might be it. But why is it under Hunting and Fishing?

https://smile.amazon.com/HOW-DEVELOP-YOUR-SENSE-HUMOR/dp/0840397348

Turns out there is, and it's written by the guy who wrote Artemis Fowl. Here's the link if you're interested.

Check this out. And this, the second one is not Adams, but I hear he writes in the same style.

Here you go

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0692652205

Blood Sport by Robert F. Jones. This cult classic from the 70s was OOP for a long time, and has recently been re-released in ebook form.

Sky, SS, RA Lafferty.

The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees, SS, by E. Lily Yu.

Tower of Babylon, SS, by Ted Chiang.

Story of Your Life, SS, by Ted Chiang.

Bears Discover Fire, SS, by Terry Bisson.

thats a horrible excuse. You dont have to read a book, its literally the title