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is at his usual, spinning great tales of adventures, The Old Mans Boy is still my favorite, this is a worthy companion, I really, really enjoyed The Old Man and the Boy, and this book is much the same.
There is a lot here that is very unPC these days, but soundness and simplicity are still at the core.
I wonder, for all our progress, whether today's kids are really better off than the ones raised in rougher times.
Don't read this book unless you've already read The Old Man and the Boy, and don't read either one if you're so thinnedskinned or selfrighteous that you're unable to see the forest for the trees.
It didnt live up to the impossible task of matching the first book, The first book really captured the essence of the relationship of the boy and the old man.
Every story of hunting, fishing or hanging around in town painted such a vivid and heartwarming picture.
This book I enjoyed here and there where the magic of the first showed through, The heartwarming sequel to the bestselling The Old Man and the Boy is a moving, nostalgic tale that will transport the reader back to a time when going fishing was not about fish, but the stories told afterward.
Greatness continues as the boy grows older, And again in. Not nearly as good as The Old Man and the Boy but still worth reading, The sequel is rarely as good as the original, Worth reading, but Ruark should have stopped while he was ahead, I thoroughly enjoyed this book, It took me back to simpler times, Kind of reminded me of my life as a kid back in the's, If you grew up hunting and fishing and love the outdoors this is a great book for you.
Im a big fan of Robert Ruark, but I dont think this was his best work, The Old Man and the Boy was phenomenal, but this sequel missed the mark for me given the high bar Ruark had set in my mind with his other works.
I would also highly recommend Horn of the Hunter, Both are very well written and a joy to read, Like The Old Man and the Boy, this sequel could be called a fictionalized memoir.
Ruark now writes from the vantage point of an older man himself, having lived and hunted exotic game in such diverse places as Africa, India, and Spain.
But always these later experiences relate to something of value he learned from or experienced with his Old Man, a wise and loving character fashioned after his two grandfathers, and he is off on a reminiscence.
This book dragged a bit more than its predecessor but was still enjoyable, Remarkably, neither one contains any profanity or vulgarity, Ruark alludes to having exercised a healthy cussing vocabulary where fitting, but no offensive language appears in print probably due to thes standards of the magazine Field and Stream, where the stories first appeared as a series.
Ruark's passion is the hunt, not the kill, He advocates sustainable wildlife management and deplores bloodthirsty murder in the wild, I loved the previous book which takes place not far from where I live and I liked this one in both cases for their humaninterest value: the relationship between the boy and the Old Man and the wisdom so beautifully imparted.
Back inI stumbled on what would become one of my favorite books, Robert Ruarks The Old Man and the Boy.
The collection invited readers into a young boys childhood, one spent roaming the woods and coasts of the Carolinas in the twenties and thirties, absorbing lessons on life from philosophy to the best approaches to hunting duck.
The books star was the Boys grandfather, who could be both comic and stern at the same time, dispensing both folk wisdom and dissecting Montaigne over a single snort of whiskey.
Although hes the Boys guardian, he takes young Robert seriously, as the young man he might become.
Ruark seems to spend most of his childhood in the company of the Old Man and his hunting friends, which is just as well: the one time he goes out on an adventure with his school friends, they end up with a live deer in a Tin Lizzie.
The Old Mans Boy Grows Older consists of a few more similar stories, this time in conjunction with Ruarks own tales of his hunting expeditions in India and Africa, as he connects life lessons the Old Man imparted to his adult adventures.
In this mix its rather like The Lost Classics, as each combined boyRuark and adultRuark adventures and connect them with wisdom from the Old Man but Lost Classics was far more dominated by the overseas adventures.
The Old Man is as funny and insightful as ever, and I especially enjoyed Ruarks account of determining to buy his grandfathers house and restore it after a foreclosure, so that it might bring future generations the joy he found as a boy.
Robert Ruark was an author and syndicated columnist, Born Robert Chester Ruark, Jr, to Charlotte A. Ruark and Robert C. Ruark, a bookkeeper for a wholesale grocery, young Ruark attended local schools and graduated from New Hanover High School in Wilmington, North Carolina.
He graduated from high school at ageand entered the University of North Carolina at age, The Ruark family was deeply affected by the Depression, but despite his families financial travails, he earned a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
During World War II Ruark was commissioned an ensign in
the United States Navy, Ruark served ten months as a gunnery officer on Atlantic and Mediterranean convoys, After the war Ruark joined the Robert Ruark was an author and syndicated columnist, Born Robert Chester Ruark, Jr, to Charlotte A. Ruark and Robert C. Ruark, a bookkeeper for a wholesale grocery, young Ruark attended local schools and graduated from New Hanover High School in Wilmington, North Carolina.
He graduated from high school at ageand entered the University of North Carolina at age, The Ruark family was deeply affected by the Depression, but despite his families' financial travails, he earned a journalism degree from the University of North 'Carolina at Chapel Hill.
During World War II Ruark was commissioned an ensign in the United States Navy, Ruark served ten months as a gunnery officer on Atlantic and Mediterranean convoys, After the war Ruark joined the Scripps Howard Newspaper Alliance, As the New York Times said, Ruark was "sometimes glad, sometimes sad, and often mad but almost always provocative.
" Some of his columns were eventually collected into two books, I Didn't Know It Was Loadedand One for the Road.
As he grew in notoriety, Ruark began to write fiction first for literary magazines, and then his first novel, Grenadine Etching in.
After he began to gain success as a writer, Ruark decided that it was time to fulfill a lifelong dream to go on safari to Africa.
Ruark took an entire year off and began a love affair with Africa, As a result of his first safari, Ruark wrote sitelink Horn of the Hunter, in which he detailed his hunt.
In, Ruark began writing a column for Field Stream magazine entitled ''The Old Man and the Boy''.
Considered largely autobiographical although technically fiction, this heartwarming series ran until late, Ruark's first bestselling novel was published in, It was entitled sitelink Something of Value and was about the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya, Sometimes belittled as “the poor mans Hemingway,” Ruark has nevertheless retained a loyal following among fans of nature writing.
Bland Simpson wrote that he produced “some of the best portraiture in words of hunting, fishing and life in the field that we have.
”Ruark died in London on July,most likely as a result of alcoholism, Robert Ruark is buried in Palamos, Spain, Source: sitelink sitelink.