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I am trying really hard to finish it. But damn its nothing like hotel honolulu.This book is laughably bad. It's like someone adapted "North Shore" for the page, with some elements of "In God's Hands" thrown in. I don't know why people who don't surf are drawn to writing about surfing. I'm barely into the book and I don't know if there are any more cliches about surfing, surfers, or Hawaii left. Theroux should've stuck to what he knows and does best. This ain't it.
I got a dozen pages into it and couldn't continue. I found the "aging surf star" to be both irritating and uninteresting.I am trying really hard to finish it. But damn its nothing like hotel honolulu.
I read the one page excerpt in the Surfers Journal and... no thanks.This book is laughably bad. It's like someone adapted "North Shore" for the page, with some elements of "In God's Hands" thrown in. I don't know why people who don't surf are drawn to writing about surfing. I'm barely into the book and I don't know if there are any more cliches about surfing, surfers, or Hawaii left. Theroux should've stuck to what he knows and does best. This ain't it.
Like I said, I think surfer's would have trouble with this book.
Only because you know the tropes too well.
I wonder if you were a pimp and you read St Jack if you would have the same reaction as a surfer has to this book?
When I watch a moving about teaching, they always get it wrong.
I never watched. I will check out.Autoprax I always thought this was accurate
this is how I like to readI enjoyed "The Happy Isles of Oceania," but that could've been situational as I read it while sailing the Pacific.
Not too mention his background of a trust fund moron.I got a dozen pages into it and couldn't continue. I found the "aging surf star" to be both irritating and uninteresting.
I couldn't get past about page 75."This book is laughably bad. I I don't know why people who don't surf are drawn to writing about surfing. I'm barely into the book and I don't know if there are any more cliches about surfing, surfers, or Hawaii left. Theroux should've stuck to what he knows and does best. This ain't it."
I read exactly 51 pages and it took awhile to do that. The book is not very good. Cringe worthy is a terrific description.
I did! After reading 51 pages I put the book in the Little Library in our neighborhood. I was going to throw it away, but my wife suggested the LL.I didn't even buy the book.