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They Shoot Canoes, Don't They? (Owlet Book) | 
 enlarge | Author: Patrick F. Mcmanus
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 55482
Media: Paperback
Pages: 228
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0805000305
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.50207
EAN: 9780805000306
ASIN: 0805000305
Publication Date: September 15, 1982
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Product Description
McManus celebrates the hidden pleasures, unappreciated lore, and opportunities for disaster to be found in such outdoor recreations as camping, hunting, and fishing
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 Everyone who loves the outdoors should read this book! November 25, 2007
N. Yager (Lebanon, NH)
I grew up reading his books and am now ordering them as gifts for my kids. They shoot canoes don't they and a fine and pleasant misery are my favorites.
At least one belly-laugh per page! May 12, 2007
C. Parton
McManus uses his thigh-slapping humor to urge us toward a kinder, more gentler humanity.
 they shoot canoes dont they May 24, 2006
nif (wisconsin)
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
Well, when it comes to books they, aren't my thing. you see, I don't like to read but when I read the book They Shoot Canoes Don't They by Patrick F Mcmanus, now I like to read a little bit better. The book is about this guy Patrick Mcmanus. He tells these little stories about what stupid things he has done and or this that have happed to him or his friends and family. Like this one little story his wife goes through the garage tossing junk in the garbage and she finds this one box with his childhood memories and the he tells a little story about what happened. It all starts when he first meets his wife and he takes her hunting. She puts on his antler tag as a bracelet and can't get it off then he tells a different, story but Ill leave the rest for you to find out what happens.
Travis Knipfer
 They Shoot Canoes Don't They? March 31, 2006
Peter Mcbiffel
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This collection of short stories is one of the funniest I have ever read. To fully understand the humor in these stories, you must enjoy outdoor activites and appreciate first-class sarcasm. Included in this book are about twenty-five chorts, all exploding with laughter at every turn of page.
These stories are about the personal experiences of the author, and the people that he is close to. He writes about hunting, fishing, camping, and other outdoor activites. His stories are so personal because he is writing about his past; as he was growing up, and his present. In addition to laughing at him, the reader also laughs at himself, because as you have said, thought, or done the very same thigns that he is writing about. One story in paticular describes his thoughts and fellings about getting glasses. At first McManus attributes the change in the world's clarity to communists, subsequently he is diagnosed with an astgmatism. He does not think that a big game guide should wear glasses, so he does not confide his new spectacles to his friends, until he realizes that an adult mentor of his also has glasses. Normally a person getting glasses would not be considered humor, but when written by this autor almost anything becomes funny.
In addition to entertaining, these stories also teach the reader. A few lessons that can be learned are: take time to enjoy the simple things in life, laugh at yourself, and take time out of your normal schedule to go outdoors and spend time with family and freinds. If you enjoy a good laugh pick up "They Shoot Canoes Don't They," or one of his many other novels.
They Shoot Canoes... August 18, 2005
Keith A. Dilts (Indiana)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Another very enjoyable McManus collection. I first started reading his material in the 80's. Now my kids enjoy his humor with me. Great for anyone who has a love for the outdoors and all the misadventures they have experienced.
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