Reid, Elwood

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Interesting things to know about college football
Realistic?
Readable but repetitive
introspective, muckraking expose of "big-time" football
Not enough depth about playing div. I college football.

If I Don't Six: A Novel
Elwood Reid
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What Salmon Know
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ASIN: 0385491204
Release Date: 1999-08-17

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What is it about the Great Lakes State? In this searingly dark and funny first novel, Reid, once a lineman for the University of Michigan Wolverines, puts the college gridiron to the fire the way former Dallas Cowboy Pete Gent, once a receiver for the Michigan State Spartans, did years ago for the pros in his rollicking classic, North Dallas Forty. Reid's protagonist, Elwood Riley, like Reid himself, is a block-of-granite, working-class kid who assumes he's reached life's end zone when his high school exploits nab him a football scholarship to Michigan. But he's got brains to match his brawn, and a growing awareness of himself and beyond himself that's desperate to break free. In the locker rooms and huddles of Big College, Cash Cow, move-'em-through-the-system football, even a little awareness encroaches into rah-rah values; it sends the metaphysical penalty flags flying.

What Riley sees around him is that the system stinks. Winning isn't just everything, it's the Holy Grail. His small-minded coaches will stop at nothing--steroids, humiliation, pain, abuse--to grab it, nor will his teammates (with nicknames like Napalm, what do you expect--serenity and circumspection?), and the university sees him as little more than fuel for the "Big Blue" machine on its ineffable march to the Rose Bowl. The Six of the title is a reference to both 86-ing, screwing up so you lose your scholarship, or deep-sixing, getting killed trying to hold onto it. Reid's biting prose and insider's ability to bring an outsider into the often unreal absurdity of big-time college sports will have readers alternately rooting for Riley to beat the system and rooting for him to get out alive and in one piece. It's that textured complexity that sends Six deep, elevating it to a higher number. --Jeff Silverman

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Elwood Reid first appeared on the literary stage with a powerful and bruising story called "What Salmon Know," which appeared in the March 1997 issue of GQ.  Here was a writer not afraid to examine the soulful underside of the American male, or the violence that accompanies disappointed dreams.  Now, in his first, extraordinary novel, Reid tells the story of Elwood Riley, a six-foot-six, 275-pound blue-collar kid whose ticket out of Cleveland is a "full ride" football scholarship to the University of Michigan.

But Riley is cursed with intelligence and an awareness of the vicious inhumanity of the college football system.  If Riley doesn't want to "six"--lose his scholarship or get maimed--he has to become a "fella," a pain-loving freak too nihilistic to care what he does to himself or others.  And after Riley encounters the alluring, mysteriously damaged Kate, his dilemma becomes ever more painful.

Elwood Reid's portrait of this world is at once blackly humorous, starkly tragic, and perfectly detailed.  With deft strokes, he portrays emotionally stunted coaches who have mastered the art of humiliating and manipulating young men, groupies attracted to the fame but undone by the shocking cruelty of the players, and the athletes themselves, who grow addicted to violence, alcohol, and steroids, too caught up in the glory of playing for Big Blue to notice they are mere meat to the coaches and the university.

In tough, spare, beautiful prose that should invite comparisons to the works of Thom Jones and Denis Johnson, Reid describes a place where young men damage their souls and their bodies in pursuit of a worthless glamor.  This is a profound, unsettling book about a familiar yet hidden world--a Greek tragedy in cleats.

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Interesting things to know about college football.......2002-01-06

This book was interesting. I found it very fun to read. The many things that college football players go through at a big time school were funny. Some were gross. It entertained me though. The story itself was a little sketchy here and there, and jumped forward too fast at certain times I thought. I found that there were gaps in the story that left me wondering if more should have been explained about this or that, but each reader should decide that for themselves. If you have ever wondered what an athlete sometimes has to go through at a college, then this may start to enlighten you a little. It's by no means a tell all tale of sports, just one mans view of the collegiate system, a view that I found fun to read.

Realistic?.......2000-07-12

This book was dissapointing to me for several reasons. The most evident of which was its lack of realism. Coaches constantly were either swearing at or hitting players. Every collision ended in blood, broken bones, etc. Now I am aware that coaches establish discipline and that football is a violent game. But if the game were as this author describes it, who would want to play it? Unfortunately, this author's description is way off base. To be fair, this book is Fiction, so it is the author's right to "liven up" a story in order to make it more entertaining for the reader. But his use of real college teams leads one to believe that the story has a certain element of reality, which this book did not have. I was shocked to see how many of the other reviewers finished this book and believe they now have a better insight on Div. 1 football and men's behavior in general. If you want a real look at life as a Division 1 football player, try Ken Denlinger's (For the Glory). If you want fantasy, I will give you my copy of this book. I don't have a use for it.

Readable but repetitive.......2000-06-07

Working from his own experiences as a Michigan Wolverine, Reid's story of life within a successful university football program presents a downbeat and ugly view of the college game that stands in stark contrast to the player work ethic evident in For The Glory and A Civil War. Reid's namesake hero is Elwood Reilly, an athlete cursed with a brain and a conscience (but also an uncanny self-destructive streak), whose refusal to conform with the animalistic behaviour of the other "fellas" of the team endangers his football scholarship, the only means by which he can escape the grind of daily working-class existence that is slowly destroying his father. Elwood's experience of his teammates' sordid and criminal off-field antics not only strips away college football's idealized pageantry in brutal fashion, but moreover starts him on a path of inward contemplation that leaves him trapped and wondering what else he has in life besides football. Unsurprisingly, If I Don't Six is a very male book; however, the scandalous misadventures of Reilly's teammates quickly become tiresome. All too often as well the book lapses into teen melodrama, particularly when Reilly has to decide between staying with his vapid longtime girlfriend Heather, or instead following his attraction towards the more mysterious and unorthodox Kate. Although highly readable, Reid's novel in the end generates only a passing interest within the reader, and fails to say anything new about the dilemmas of college football or of life in the American Midwest.

introspective, muckraking expose of "big-time" football.......1999-11-25

This is a disturbing, unsettling novel, one which will not make friends with those who believe in the myth of the All-American boy and the notion that collegiate athletics are populated by "student-athletes." Indeed, If I Don't Six compels the reader to examine not only the financial corruption of collegiate football, but it forces the reader to sadly ponder the corruption of many young men who prostate themselves at the altar of mind-numbingly dumb coaches. Anti-intellectualism and body-breaking comepte for attention in this tightly written and fatalistic novel. As I approached the conclusion, I marveled that the author lived to speak about his experiences, rueful of the enormous costs he has paid.

Not enough depth about playing div. I college football........1999-09-15

This book provided a good look at what it's like to be involved in big-time division I college football. Unfortunately, this is only one part of the book, and the only good part. There are a number of side stories that have nothing to do with the story, and are quite ridiculous. There is a lot of fluff around what could have been a great book. It's an easy read. I read it quickly because I kept waiting for it to get better. I was very disappointed. If you want to learn about football, buy a book written by Tim Green.

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Great Premise Falls Just a Bit Short
Everything You Love About Reid..... plus humor?????

D.B.: A Novel
Elwood Reid
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ASIN: 0385497393
Release Date: 2005-07-12

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In 1971, a man calling himself D.B. Cooper hijacked a flight, claimed his ransom without harming a soul, and vanished. Elwood Reid uses this true story as a starting point, imagining Cooper as Phil Fitch, a Vietnam vet with a failed marriage who decides the time has come to do something that will save him from a life of punching timecards and wondering what could have been. Fitch ends up in Mexico, where he drifts until a bad turn of luck forces him to return home.

Meanwhile, newly retired FBI agent Frank Marshall is struggling with his new life of leisure–fishing, spending time with family, and drinking too much. Unable to let go of a few old cases, Marshall decides to help a young agent determined to solve the mystery of D. B. Cooper. As they close in and events bring Fitch back home, these two stories head for a moving climax in a smart, gripping, and frequently hilarious tale of one of America’s modern folk heroes.

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CHAPTER ONE

1984

On the Saturday before his retirement party Frank Marshall's wife, Clare, told him he looked tired and urged him to take a nap instead of going fishing. He decided to ignore her and waited until she went to show a three-bedroom ranch to a couple from Spokane before leaving a note and changing into his fishing shirt, a tattered chamois button-up with torn pockets and fish scales fused to the fabric. It had rained for three straight days and as Frank loaded his rod and tackle box into the car the sun warmed the damp pavement and the air filled with the rich smell of earthworms soft boiling in shallow sidewalk puddles.

He drove out of town until he came to the abandoned haul road that led down to the small mountain lake where he kept an aluminum johnboat and a lawn chair chained around a tree trunk. A few other men fished the lake and sometimes he'd run into one of them coming or going and they'd exchange words in the glib and crafty manner of all fishermen--a bit of misinformation about what the fish were biting on, followed by a quick exit wink and tip of the cap. He fished to get away and so the truly good days were the ones when he had the lake all to himself and he could fish and drift without any of the petty competition that arose from the sight of another man hauling in fish left and right.

Frank had reached mandatory retirement after twenty years as an FBI agent and six before that as a deputy in the sheriff's department, a make-do job he'd taken after an abortive stab at grad school. Although happy with the retirement package offered by the Bureau, he found himself increasingly bothered by the fact that the Bureau and its massive bureaucracy had done nothing to prepare him for what came next--the end of his career, or what the other agents referred to as being put out to pasture with the civies.

During his career he'd traveled to Quantico dozens of times for training seminars on hostage negotiating, crime-scene photography, defensive tactics, skip tracing, rudimentary forensics, drug purity determination, criminal profiling, wiretapping, and the Bureau's code of conduct. He'd seen bodies rotting in fields and men in lab coats hovering over them with instruments, measuring and marveling at the embarrassing riches of the dead. He'd always assumed that there would be one last call to Quantico or perhaps a closed-door sit-down with a special agent in charge to discuss retirement--the real purpose of which would be to strongly discourage him about talking to the press concerning any ongoing investigations or writing a tell-all book in the hope of making the talk-show circuit when people wanted answers as to why some normal, well-liked man from the Midwest had started stuffing little boys under his floorboards or feeding old folks ant poison and doing strange things with severed body parts and dog skulls. But there had been nothing and as he approached his last day, the retirement party looming like some wake, he found that all he wanted to do was pick up one last case and feel that electric thrum of fresh information, the swirl of events coming together as he built the file, sought suspects, weighed theories in anticipation of that moment when he would enter gun-first through a splintered door, his blood ripping around his veins, eyes beating with adrenaline as he drew a bead on the accused or maybe just tricked him into cuffs with his nice-guy act. Instead he'd been put to shuffling paper and answering tip hot lines. It was, he supposed, an undignified but necessary way to wind things up, meant to painlessly transition him to humdrum civilian life. But none of it seemed to help the impending sense of internal collapse Frank Marshall felt pressing down on him as his days dwindled. In fact, the more phones he answered and reports he filed the worse he felt because, now that he had time to look around, he'd noticed how much the Bureau had changed.

Durin

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Great Premise Falls Just a Bit Short.......2004-11-05

What a great idea! A novel that takes on the legend of D.B. Cooper. What if he did survive? Where did he go and what did he do? That's half of this interesting book by Elwood Reid and by far the best half of the book. He has created a great historical fiction character that was worth the price of this book.

Unfortunately, the story of D.B. in this book gets intertwined with the life of a newly retired FBI officer who was actually on the Cooper case when it happened. Years later, immediately after retiring he is pulled back into the case by another FBI officer who harbors a long-held interest in the case. I won't reveal how D.B. and the FBI come together in this book, but I'm afraid it detracts from the story.

Every once in awhile you come across a book that is written exceptionally well but has plot problems. This is one of those books where the main character comes alive, the descriptions and flow of the account is great but in the end, it just comes off as too improbable. Moreover, the other characters in the book just aren't as interesting as D.B. himself.

Still, I liked the book enough to recommend it and will give the author another try in the future.

Everything You Love About Reid..... plus humor?????.......2004-07-16

Admittedly, I'm biased. I've been a Reid fan for years. His hard-boiled, testosterone-filled stuff is exactly the kind of literature I thrive on, particularly because there isn't much of it out there.

So Reid fans will find all of that - plenty of beer, more than a few stops at beaten-up trailers, and some good old fashioned violence, but the pleasant surprise was Reid's humor, which has been turned up to the Nth degree.

Don't get me wrong - Reid's always been a clever writer, but it was more of the type of humor where you caught yourself smiling. There are passages in this book that are gut-splitting hilarious. I'm not going to quote them - if I was a real reviewer, I would, but this is just a guy talking about a book here. But it was great to see a new weapon in Reid's already potent arsenal.

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Penzler Pick, September 2000: When the Alaska oil boom was in full swing in the late '60s and early '70s, everyone from college students to drifters found their way up north with dreams of working on the pipeline. The work was grueling, but it was a great way to get rich quick. The boom has ended, but the way of life lingers on for the few unable to give up the life of working for six months before heading south for the rest of the year.

In Midnight Sun, Jack and his buddy, Burke, are two of the guys for whom Alaska still exerts a strong pull. When the book opens, they are building houses on an army base. Jack has worked hauling lumber and honing his carpentry skills to get to the point of what he calls "underwhelming mediocrity." On the weekends he and Burke drive north on roads owned by oil companies or the government and fish for salmon and grayling.

Before Jack heads south to Texas, Burke has one more adventure to propose. An acquaintance of his, Duke, is seriously ill and would like to see his daughter Penny again. She was wooed away by a cult some years before, and Duke will pay Jack and Burke $10,000 to rescue her, but they must trek into the interior to bring her out. Jack reluctantly agrees, and the two men battle the Alaskan wilderness, quite unprepared for the harsh conditions and the wildlife they encounter along the way. When they finally reach the camp and locate Penny, they find that their troubles are just beginning. The group she is with is much more than a new millennium cult, and it will take all of Jack and Burke's mediocre skills to survive and bring Penny home.

Elwood Reid has crafted an adventure thriller that explores a unique aspect of American life. He is a master at conveying a way of life in its death throes, the rootlessness of Jack and Burke, and the tawdriness of a boomtown gone flat. --Otto Penzler

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Elwood Reid's ferocious story of two tough-talking drifters forced to confront their vulnerability in the Alaskan wilderness cements his reputation as the bard of the working man.

Looking for thrills and some easy money, two itinerant construction workers, Jack and Burke, agree to help a desperate father rescue his daughter from a strange millennial cult for a fee of ten thousand dollars.  Their quest takes them into the most dangerous territory on the continent--the dark woods of Alaska.  Woefully unprepared for the deadly harshness of the land, and dreadfully uninformed as to the pervasiveness of the cult's hold on its members, they quickly descend into a violent struggle for their lives.

Jack and Burke swiftly and excruciatingly learn that their rescue-the-girl mission is anything but a walk in the woods for a large chunk of money.  Face to face with the disfigured cult leader, they discover that the stakes are much higher, involving a deadly grizzly bear and large amounts of newly mined gold.  Jack, initially less confident than the hard-ass Burke, finds himself assuming control of the expedition as they move deeper and deeper into the bush and every decision becomes a question of life or death.

A relentless yet complex tale, Midnight Sun explores how men react to the most extreme conditions and the basest of human behavior--the choices they make when the rules of civilization no longer apply and what, in a world steeped in darkness and isolation, they discover about themselves and one another.

Reviews for his previous books trumpeted Reid's extraordinary ability to portray the lives of working-class men.  In this new novel, Reid takes on a much larger canvas and demonstrates the full extent of his artistic powers.

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Lost in the Dark.......2006-06-17

Elwood Reid once lived in Alaska or so says the blurb on the back of the cover. He now lives in New York. This is almost an automatic formula for a "getting away from boring Continental society to the wonderful, unexplored North" novel. And sure enough, Reid gives us a story that sounded better than it really was.

Ignore the dialogue (particularly in the first half of the book) where the two main characters talk like incoherent 12 year olds who have just discovered the "F" word along with big brother's supply of Playboys and weed in the closet. If you make it past the semi-literate conversations, the story picks up. Our heroes -Jack (narrator) and buddy Burke - are drifters who take odd jobs, get drunk, bed anything with a skirt and talk like anarchists from Dumb & Dumber. One day Duke walks up and offers money if they will rescue daughter Penny from a cult deep in mid-Alaska. They head on up after flipping the bird to a former boss - real mature behaviour.

The second half of the book takes place at the camp, a sort of cultish backwoods hippie place where folks live in squalor, work like dogs, screw likie rabbits and have a funny way of running into a ferocious bear when trying to leave. Oh, there is also gold being mined at the camp - an action that has nothing to do with the so-called "philosophy" of the place which seems to be Conquer Your Fears Through Work. The mystery deepens when several members including daughter Penny insist they want to stay. Our heroes get separated and then we discover that Burke is not who he seems and (shock!) has other than altruistic motives in making the journey. The action toward the end raced to a conclusion where all was semi-resolved. You know the end - Penny escapes with Jack who is wiser if not richer for his venture up North.

Can't get his facts straight.......2004-12-06

As an Alaskan, I expect an author writing about Alaska to at least get the details correct. Reid has his protagonists travelling up the Dalton Highway, and then somehow ending up near Circle. A cursory glance at any map of Alaska would indicate that this makes no sense. The book is filled with many errors of this type. Well, at least as far a pg. 40, which is where I gave up on this awful tome.

Erratic.......2002-07-03

This book starts out with great promise only to quickly lose its way. Main character Jack and his buddy Burke, out of work journeyman carpenters, agree to venture to the wildest parts of Alaska to fetch back a daughter from an isolated commune or cult for her dying father. Or so it seems.

Soon enough, Jack can trust no one, and things get chilly. Winter's always looming in this book, and that's handled well by the author, as are the vivid scenery and sounds of a landscape bracing for the cold.

However, for much of the novel the northern camp itself is simply way too big a plot device. So much time is spent in so small a place, it's impossible not to wonder at the obvious: Why can't these people figure out who to trust and who not to? Why is it so hard for Jack to do something, anything? Why isn't the cult leader more convincingly charming or downright nasty? Why can't Jack, just once, wise up that something's rotten in Alaska?

Everything's just too slow, despite some genuinely nice writing. Nature (capital N) has its moments, but it's too clumsy overall to take its own place among the novel's odd playoff-sized roster of characters. Still, it's hard to shake the feeling this is Reid's first real stab at mystery writing, and a couple more tries to work out the kinks of plotting and the need for true suspense and he'll be skating down the river.

Midnight Darkness.......2001-07-13

A riveting read... a cross between "Heart of Darkness" and John Fowles' "The Magus." It captures the feeling of full-time daylight in Alaska in Summer very well, which is a mindframe that is hard to explain if you've never experienced it.

Mike Zinsley, author of The Rapture of the Deep

Heart of Darkness - Schmart of Darkness.......2001-01-09

I'm getting a little tired of hearing people say this is Reid's version of "Heart of Darkness." That implies (at least to me) as if Reid's book is less than Conrad's, when in reality - it is more. It's vibrant, entertaining, realistic.

The only comment I'll have to the negative is that I recently finished Reid's short story collection - What Salmon Know. Reid packs so much energy into those short tales that Midnight Sun is almost a watered down version of Reid at his best, as it would be impossible for him to pack so much power into every line of a book this size.

Both books are winners, but for me What Salmon Know was a "can't put it down" book, while Midnight Sun is a "looking forward to picking it up" book. It's a subtle difference, but one that fervent readers will be able to understand.

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Bukowski Jr.

Occasionally great, sometimes not so great

Literature to get lit by.

High expectations.

THIS IS A WRITER TO WATCH!!!

What Salmon Know
Elwood Reid
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If I Don't Six: A Novel

D.B.

Midnight Sun

ASIN: 0385491220
Release Date: 2000-09-05

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Fans of Elwood Reid's football novel, If I Don't Six, shouldn't be surprised to find his first collection full of men at the fourth down with 10 yards to go. Not literally--in fact, there's not a gridiron in sight in What Salmon Know. But Reid has a disarming gift for putting his characters into dramatically fraught situations; his sense of story is infallible. In "Overtime," a plant manager forcefully suggests that a worker skip his daughter's volleyball game to work a second shift; when the girl is abducted and murdered after the game, the manager is left with a lingering, life-changing sense of responsibility. The main character in "Happy Jack" is a YWCA self-defense instructor who finds himself playing predator to one of the very students he's meant to be empowering. And in the title story, two drunken Alaskan good ol' boys watch with horror as a pair of GI's from Kentucky fillet a live salmon. Revenge on the fish's behalf is, of course, extracted. But then, Reid's men usually do come up bloody-fisted.

In more ways than one. Workingmen all, these characters live by their hands... or what's left of them, anyway. One fellow observes a pinkie-less coworker: "Now he looks like everybody else on the job--tainted with the work. The closest I've come is a Sawzall across my forearm when some pimple-faced rookie got cocky and kept zipping through a crooked doorframe, forgetting I was on the other side pulling shiners."

Unfortunately, Reid doesn't always seem to know what to do with his tough talkers once he wrangles them into these cleverly devised scenarios. In the aftermath of tension, generalizations fly: "And now what? Hours to push through. Work and water to put under some bridge?" To use another (all too appropriate) sports metaphor, Reid steals the ball every time, but occasionally fails to convert. --Claire Dederer

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Compared by critics to such masterful storytellers as Raymond Carver, Rick Bass, and Thom Jones, Elwood Reid, author of the acclaimed novel If I Don't Six, signals a powerful presence on the American literary landscape with his knockout story collection, What Salmon Know.

Reid's characters are tough men living in a world tougher than they are. Life's disappointments fester in their hearts, dashing earnest hopes and provoking violent tendencies made manifest in bad behavior and fatalistic posturing. But there's more to these men than meets the eye, and with great emotional acuity, Reid sheds light on their opaque souls.

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Bukowski Jr........2007-02-20

The most depressing stories in the world, yet you really connect with the characters and Reid makes you feel like you know them. The whole thing is highly reminiscent of Bukowski, but there's something less fatalistic and more positive about it. Maybe Reid's characters are Bukowski's characters when they were still young and had some hope; before they grew up and realized that life really is hell. The narration style is somewhat stylized and at times poetic, but it's not overdone and never goes over the reader's head, which is a good thing. Reid has an interesting way of ending his stories - he often ends them at a point where we don't know what's going to happen - and what he's trying to do here is get across that the protagonist of the story typically doesn't CARE what happens. The story is often never resolved, but this is realistic because stories in our real lives our often never resolved. Reid's characters, like Bukowski's and like the ones in Modest Mouse songs, just float through life, and whatever happens, happens.

Occasionally great, sometimes not so great.......2001-08-29

Like most collections of short stories, Reid's What Salmon Know runs the gamut in quality. His ten stories here all have male protagonists, many of whom live in Alaska and work with their hands, contemptuous of the tourists who flock to Alaska in the summer and shoot anything that moves or excitedly point at the grizzly bears from their seat on the motor coach.
I really liked some of the latter stories, including "No Strings Attached", about a working class guy who is picked up in a grocery store by a beautiful girl who knows him, and who has an unusual living arrangement with her husband. "Laura Borealis" was another good one, named after a dancer who befriends our hero as he helps build a lodge for a wealthy divorced Texan who has escaped to Alaska following a nasty divorce. The Texan hires two carpenters, including our narrator and another guy with a reputation as having the foulest smelling dog in the state, from his habit of napping with his feet under the dog.
Some stories don't work so well, such as the last tale called "Random Beatings and You", which uses a bizarre present tense narration style that served no purpose. The title story, "What Salmon Know", reminded me of Reid's powerful novel Midnight Sun, in which two characters head up to a lodge in Alaska for some salmon fishing and encounter some brutal, clueless military guys who catch and then filet a live fish. Fans of tough guy short stories like Tom Franklin's Poachers and Larry Brown's Big Bad Love will undoubtedly find something here they like, as well as an occasional clunker.

Literature to get lit by........1999-12-15

Man I od'd on baseball quite a while back but the "All That Good Stuff" story is as funny a sports piece as I've ever read. Worth the price of the book alone. Has at least a half dozen laugh out loud lines describing the characters' actions/traits. Get it.

High expectations........1999-11-30

The story "What Salmon Know" is outstanding and should be read first to set the standard for the remaining tales which I was disappointed with. The author's below-blue-collar characters need some further depth before they can emerge from a flat universe into something more 3-D. The gravitation to stereotype personas gave me concerns that the author was trying too hard and by doing so was attempting to convince his characters that indeed, redemption from their unenlightened lives is impossible. The Salmon story is another matter and rises to high art and deep thought...worth the cost of the book dispite my constant question with his other stories: "where's he going with this and why?"

THIS IS A WRITER TO WATCH!!!.......1999-09-16

I like reading Elwood Reid. His first novel, "If I Don't Six," was excellent. So are these stories. I am an MFA student myself, and I believe Reid was one, as well as being a college football player. His writing is unlike that of a lot of MFA students. He is clear, concise, and focuses on telling a good story. Gives vivid scenes, good action, and characters you feel for, rather than just read about. Reid is talented, and apparently, very persistent. I read it took him 10 years of dealing with rejections before GQ published his first piece, the short story that the book is titled after.

Large-Scale Performance-Driven Training Needs Assessment : A Case Study.: An article from: Public Personnel Management

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Large-Scale Performance-Driven Training Needs Assessment : A Case Study.: An article from: Public Personnel Management
Elwood F. Holton III , Reid A. Bates , and Sharon S. Naquin
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This digital document is an article from Public Personnel Management, published by International Personnel Management Association on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 6904 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details
Title: Large-Scale Performance-Driven Training Needs Assessment : A Case Study.
Author: Elwood F. Holton III
Publication: Public Personnel Management (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2000
Publisher: International Personnel Management Association
Volume: 29 Issue: 2 Page: 253 Distributed by Thomson Gale

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WAHT SALMON KNOW
Elwood Reid
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Die Nacht des Bären.
Elwood Reid
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Four for the Road: Pushin' It to the Limit

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Four for the Road: Pushin' It to the Limit
Katz, Chaon, Reid, Pete, Don, Dan, Elwood Hamill
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D.B.
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Ce que savent les saumons
Elwood Reid
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