Anyone here ever read Farley Mowat?

[pokerfan]

I just re-read 'The Boat Who Wouldn't Float' after about a twenty year hiatus. My god, that book is fucking funny! A story about a man who buys a wreck of a boat in a fog, both literally and self-induced. I realized that I haven't read anything as LOL funny in the past twenty years, and I read a lot.




Others in my Farley collection:

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (1957) ISBN 0553279289

Grey Seas Under: The Perilous Rescure Missions of a North Atlantic Salvage Tug (1959)

The Desperate People (1959; revised 1999)

Owls in the Family (1961)

The Serpent's Coil: An Incredible Story of Hurricane-Battered ships the Heroic Men Who Fought to Save Them (1961)

Never Cry Wolf (1963)

West Viking (1965)

The Curse of the Viking Grave (1966)

A Whale for the Killing (1972)

And No Birds Sang (1979)

Sea of Slaughter (1984)

[joneschick]

1. I just ordered it from my library

thanks for the recommendation. God knows I could use a good laugh :hi:

[scarlet_owl]

2. I read "Owls in the Family" in fourth grade.

I remember liking it.

[never cry wolf]

3. I am a BIG Mowat fan

please note my moniker....

and no birds sang is the best first hand wwii book, or war book, for that matter, that i have read... kind of my pet genre... that and a bridge too far by cornelius ryan are the best of that ilk...

they all are very good, he is quite gifted......

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I LOVED Never Cry Wolf........

He is one heck of a writer........:hi:

[Sugar Smack]

5. "A Whale for the Killing"!

:wow: :yourock: Listen, your Farley Mowat collection sounds like my Edward Abbey collection!!

[achtung_circus]

6. On a regular basis.

Add the Farfarers to your list. It's speculative historical fiction summarized here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farfarers:_Before_the_Norse

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be still makes me cry because I had a dog that resembled Mutt in many ways,including the physical description and the list to port, although not his intelligence or gender.

Also try My Discovery of AMerica:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Discovery_of_America

wherein Varley Monfat is denied permission to enter the US as an undesirable alien.

[pokerfan]

7. One of the most vivid images of 'Dog Who Wouldn't Be'

Is Farley riding with Mutt in the rumble seat of his parent's Ford Model-A. Farley and Mutt were wearing goggles because of the dusty roads. They had actually fashioned some goggles that would fit the dog and the dog learned to push them up on his head when he didn't need them and to pull them down when he did. They had passed through some orchard country and had picked up some cherries. So they roll through this town and the townfolk are amazed to see a dog wearing goggles nonchalantly yet carefully spitting cherry pits out of the car.



Fantastic writer who, like Mark Twain, never let the facts get in the way of the truth.

[achtung_circus]

8. And IIRC

Farley's father had purchased the goggles after Mutt had been stung on the side of his nose by a bee. This occurred while hanging his head into the slipstream over the side of the car. Offended at this assault on his pride, he had moved to the other side of the car and had then been stung by a bee on the other side of his nose, causing Mutt to resemble a hammerhead shark.