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Title: On a Wave by Thad Ziolkowski ISBN: 0-87113-845-X Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: May, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent story. Well-written, funny, poignant
Comment: I am so sorry this book is over. It was a pleasure to read. Thad Ziolkowski is such a wonderful writer. His story is witty, eloquent, and moving. I have never had much interest in surfing, but that didn't change my enjoyment of the story. I particularly relished the parent-child dialogues and the amusing, self-deprecating recollections of childhood cognitions.
Rating: 5
Summary: an engrossing, vivid memoir
Comment: I'm not a surfer, never even thought about surfing much, but once I started this book I couldn't stop thinking about it. Ziolkowski's book is a very deftly written story about coming to know the world through a focus on one thing -- the wave, in all its shifting, complicated, living grace. By studying that one thing with all his heart, the writer finds a way through the ordinary struggles of coming of age, but through some extraordinary ones, too. ON A WAVE artfully evokes a time and a place, and also a time of life. It's one of the best new memoirs I've read for a while. It really does share some of the strength and character of Frank Conroy's STOP TIME, which is serious praise indeed.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best of the surf-book bunch!
Comment: I've read all of the surf-related books (including those offered here by Amazon), and I have to say this is the best! Great writing and imagery quickly took me back to my time in the surf, which is almost the same timeline as Thad (except on the other coast). Also note some early reading of Slater's "Pipe Dreams" looks to be a contender.
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Title: The Water's End by Christopher Hawkins ISBN: 1552127281 Publisher: Trafford Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Eddie Would Go: The Story of Eddie Aikau, Hawaiian Hero by Stuart Holmes Coleman ISBN: 097062137X Publisher: MindRaising Press Pub. Date: 31 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Caught Inside : A Surfer's Year on the California Coast by Daniel Duane ISBN: 0865475091 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 10 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Reef Dance by John DeCure ISBN: 0312272979 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 28 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: We Approach Our Martinis with Such High Expectations by Jamie Brisick ISBN: 0965653579 Publisher: Consafos Pr Pub. Date: 12 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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