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I finished the Old Man and the Boy by Robert Ruark the other night. If you haven't read it I highly recommend it. It's in my top 3 list now. It will make you laugh, think, smile, remember, and cry a little. Buy the hard cover and pass it down to a boy or a young father.

Robert Ruark quotes
“You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it’s all a waste and a sin to take it if you can’t use it.”
― Robert Ruark, The Old Man and the Boy

“Any time a boy is ready to learn about guns is the time he’s ready, no matter how young he is, and you can’t start too young to learn how to be careful.”
― Robert Ruark, The Old Man and the Boy

“Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s’pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain’t a boy any longer.”
― Robert Ruark, The Old Man and the Boy

“If they keep exposing you to education, you might even realize some day that man becomes immortal only in what he writes on paper, or hacks into rock, or slabbers onto a canvas, or pulls out of a piano.”
― Robert Ruark, The Old Man and the Boy

Probably my favorite book. Everyone that enjoys the outdoors, especially hunting and fishing, should read it.

I have been a on Ruark kick for the last year or so. Just picked up "Something of Value" a couple of weeks ago at a used book shop, haven't started it yet. "The Old Man and the Boy" is one of my favorites.

My next book will be The Old Man's Boy Grows Older.

Another great book on the top of my list is a bit different but I imagine most on here would like it if you haven't read it already.
Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson
Little, Brown Book Group, Jan 7, 2010 - 400 pages
In June 2005 four US Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al-Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less than twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs was alive. This is the story of team leader Marcus Luttrell, the sole survivor of Operation Redwing. Blasted unconscious by a rocket grenade, blown over a cliff, but still armed and still breathing, Luttrell endured four desperate days fighting the al-Qaeda assassins sent to kill him, before finding unlikely sanctuary with a Pashtun tribe who risked everything to protect him from the circling Taliban killers.