A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean is ranked an incredible 8920th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, which makes one doubt the algorithm, especially given that it was nominated for The Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1977, and was adapted for the big screen – the film was directed by Robert Redford and it stars Bradd Pitt in a leading role – you find notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other relevant lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, I must say, I like this book

 

A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean is ranked an incredible 8920th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, which makes one doubt the algorithm, especially given that it was nominated for The Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1977, and was adapted for the big screen – the film was directed by Robert Redford and it stars Bradd Pitt in a leading role – you find notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other relevant lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, I must say, I like this book

 

9 out of 10

 

This is my third note on this subject https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-river-runs-through-it-by-norman.html at least, there may be one take I have missed now; however, they had the film based on the excellent oeuvre included in the television program last night, I saw again some of it, and ergo we now have this ‘new perspective’

 

There is something about the narrative that I find exhilarating, one of the main attractions is right there, in the title A River Runs Through it, which inspires, makes the reader think of Ataraxia, Eudaimonia, Nirvana, Anata, that is concepts that imply peacefulness, Far From the Madding Crowd, now that is another enticing work

Furthermore, we are not talking about hermits here, this is not about Simeon Stylites, the saint who was so ascetic that he spent his time on a pillar – it would be worth reading more about him, I mean, how long would he be up there? He did have to get down, or did he do his business from up there, peeing, alright, but then the rest?

 

Deliverance https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/deliverance-by-james-dickey-is-one-of.html came to mind, this another fabulous feature, which shares with A River Runs Through It the background, stunning landscapes, and they are both wonderful books and they have been adapted into major films

Nevertheless, Deliverance is about some real horrible acts, and if A River Runs Through It mostly has this bucolic atmosphere, there are some fights, one of them about racism, Paul Maclean aka excellent Brad Pitt in the movie has this Native American lover, and some ancestors of MAGA types mock her and so we have a fight

 

‘Serenity now!’ the line from Seinfeld  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-seinfeld-scripts-by-jerry-seinfeld.html may apply, in that there is Serenity in Montana, but there are tensions as well- by the way, the Serenity line belongs to Frank Contanza aka the late Mr. Stiller Senior, when he has a quarrel with Elaine

One segment I liked was the fishing party, when Norman Maclean has to take his would-be brother-in-law along, and the latter is a drunkard, obnoxious individual – Paul tells him ‘In Montana, we are not late for work, church and fishing’ although the church may be misquoted here, the scoundrel is punished, because he falls asleep and is sunburnt

 

Paul has an interview with…the president, Coolidge was in office at that time, and he has an effect named after him in psychology https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-dream-of-ridiculous-man-by-fyodor.html and you can google to read about it, or you can ask me, or else, if you search on my blog, the story is there, somewhere

 

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