| | WINTER |  | Author: Rick Bass
Creator: Elizabeth Hughes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 581641
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 162
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0395517419
Dewey Decimal Number: 978.6
EAN: 9780395517413
ASIN: 0395517419
Publication Date: February 1, 1991
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This book is a classic celebration of winter in a remote Montana valley.
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 Teenagers write better blogs April 1, 2008
Teenagers write better blogs. And this book is just the author's blog. That's all that this book can aspire to. It's just day in, day out of the author's most inner personal feelings and...but wait...nothing ever happens and the author is as shallow as an elk piss puddle. I read to the part where the author starts to cut wood for the winter. I thought, how boring. So I jumped about 35 pages. Still cutting wood. Jumped again. Still cutting wood.
So if you want to watch this guy cut wood, every stinkin' little chip, then this book is for you.
In Search of Solitude... December 19, 2007
Rick Bass's "Winter" is a short account of a winter spent with his girlfriend housesitting a ranch in a remote valley in Montana. Rick was a writer; his girlfriend Elizabeth an artist; both were experiencing their first real Northern winter, the kind that closes in and dominates your life for months at a time.
As the subtitle notes, it really is "notes from Montana." Rick turns out to be a competent writer, observant and appreciative of the relatively unspoiled Yaak Valley and the solitude that comes free with living there. There are plenty of interesting observations about the self-selecting, independent handful of inhabitants who share the valley; about the joys of cutting wood for heating cabins; and about life away from electricity, phones, and television.
While this might seem like a trip to the Moon for dedicated city-dwellers, there are no grand relevations here and perhaps there were not meant to be. Rick's experience is common to many who move to remote locations like Alaska, to get away from the crowding and the hustle of the average American city. For those who like it, the elbow room and the natural quiet allows folks to slow down and see/hear/smell/touch and taste things they might miss driving by at 65 miles per hour. At the same time, the removal of the safety features of urban life makes one more alert and more cautious of the dangers of wild animals, fire, and accidents miles away from the nearest hospital.
This book is recommended as a pleasant and interesting read for those curious about a different life, one harder to find in an increasingly urban world.
Not good. June 26, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Looking through books for ones to send to the thrift store, this one leapt to the fore. Each of the three times I've sat down to read it, I've soon set it aside, thinking 'life's too short to spend with books like this.' Rick Bass may be a great guy (some reviewers point out that he is), but this book is forced and soulless. Within my own experience with environmental nonfiction, "nature writing" as some will call it, I can think of nothing with which this book would compare well. Teale's 'Wandering Through Winter' is broader and more informative, more interesting because it is more interested; Abbey's 'Desert Solitaire' is more personally engaging; Thoreau's 'Walden', Leopold's 'Almanac' or 'Sketches', anything by Muir, Mowat, or Lopez -- more philosophical, more lyrical, more evocative, far better by any standard of measure.
Sorry to have to fasten the 'one star' rating here, Mr. Bass, but this book is nothing beyond mediocre.
 Rick's a cool guy September 27, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having experienced the Yaak during winter, a few years in a row, I know what it's like... Kinda boring but very pretty. That was a few years ago, when I was a young teenager. I knew Rick and his family; I went to school with his daughters. In fact, his oldest daughter was one of my best friends. I remember one time I stayed over at their house with another one of our friends and we played hide-and-seek, and Rick was the seeker. It was a lot of fun. Anyway, I actually haven't read any of his books, I just wanted to say that Rick Bass is a great person, and if I could ever find his books in the local library, I'd read them, and definitely suggest them to other readers.
I felt Snow through the author's words March 18, 2006
I am Doug Hiser, author of The Honey Bee Girl, Wink-Eye Creek, Crow Canyon, and Secret Grotto. Rick Bass is an author who resides in his own genre. Winter is a fabulous book and I did not want it to end. Bass brought the world of Montana to me down here in Texas. Rick Bass is a master author with incredible description and odd yet powerful storytelling. The Watch was the first book I read by Bass and his short stories were intriguing and profound. He has been a tremendous influence on my own books. Winter-Notes from Montana is a book with a spellbinding story of survival and how a man changed his life by moving from Texas to a place without electricity and communication in the snowy mountainous region of Montana called the Yaak. He writes there on a typewriter by lantern light. He describes his metamorphosis from a Texas writer to a true mountain man learning to survive the intensely cold winters of the wilds of Montana. Bass describes many encounters with nature, moose, elk, bear, and others and fills the chapters with the wonderful characters that live in near seclusion in this place. Rick Bass presents an alternative lifestyle of survival and conservation, toughness of the human spirit and a grand love of nature as he actually lived the story of his book. A beautiful read and you will cherish the images and words of the writer Rick Bass.
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