How I Got This Way

Name: How I Got This Way
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Author: Patrick F. McManus
ISBN: 9781440775918

Author: Patrick F. McManus

Narrator: Norman Dietz

Unabridged: 7 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/06/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, Humor, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs

Synopsis

Grab your fishing net and hold on to your funnybone; you’re in for a hilarious romp through the woods with bestselling humorist Patrick McManus. How I Got This Way, McManus’ rib-tickling collection of stories about life in the outdoors, is guaranteed to have you chuckling all the way down the trail.

Join America’s favorite outdoor funnyman and his pals—Retch, Rancid, and Crazy Eddie—on a bumbling expedition into the Idaho Rockies. Along the way, McManus pauses to ponder some important ethical questions. Suppose, for example, you’re hiking in the mountains with your best friend when he is suddenly
attacked by a grizzly bear. Do you a) flee as fast as you can to safety, or b) pause long enough to ask your friend to toss you the car keys? While McManus searches for the answer, he finds time to scare a few fish, burn a campfire dinner, and even take a hike with—ahem—the President of the United States.

“Describing Patrick F. McManus as an outdoor humorist is like saying Mark Twain wrote books about small boys. He is the funniest writer around today—indoors or outdoors.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution

About Patrick F. McManus

Patrick F. McManus is a renowned outdoor writer, humorist, and longtime columnist for Outdoor Life and Field & Stream. His most recent books are the Sheriff Bo Tully mysteries Avalanche and The Blight Way. He is the author of many other books, including such runaway New York Times bestsellers as The Grasshopper Trap, The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw, and Real Ponies Don't Go Oink! He lives in Spokane, Washington.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jerry

This is my second time reading through all of Patrick McManus' books and they were just as good the second time around...I managed to read them all during the course of the year mixed in with all the other books I have read. He is truly a treasure! So many of the things he writes about I see in my o......more

Goodreads review by Kristin- Kristin's Bookstack

This is a good book to read when you don't want to ponder over what you are reading or you feel like reading but don't have a lot of time to devote to a whole book. Each chapter is a different story about the author's life as an outdoorsman. Warning: You WILL laugh your head off!!......more

Goodreads review by Rocky

Perhaps the funniest writer America has ever produced, McManus tells story after story how he got this way. A dangerous book to read in bed, if your married, just before lights out because even after closing the book, uncontrollable giggles keep on going.......more

Goodreads review by Jim Fromm

My Hero Patrick McManus is my hero and he has been for over twenty years. His concise technical language, and professional pursuit of each endeavor is truly an inspiration. Patrick and his cadre of elitist friends, who treat each activity as a work of art, humble my most well planned efforts. There i......more