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S'està carregant… All for a Few Perfect Waves: The Audacious Life and Legend of Rebel Surfer Miki Dorade David Rensin
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Takes a little bit to get into... sort of starts with his legacy, before getting into his story more. Fascinating guy. There's a little bit of MP in this (not quite as good a book). ( ) Before picking up this book, I didn’t know a whole lot about Miki Dora aside from the occasional reference I picked up in past issues of Surfer magazine. I knew that he had been the king of Malibu, a legendary surfer who exhibited all that was cool with surfing in the 60s. Man, was I off-base. In his book, Rensin had me changing my point of view on Dora with nearly every chapter. At one point, you just think this guy is the biggest ass you can imagine, and you wonder why anyone cares. And just when you’re ready to give up on him, Rensin reels you back in, and now you think Dora walks on water. By the end of the book, your perspective on Miki Dora is not unlike the real person—very complicated. While Rensin’s narrative in the first chapter of the book is a bit gushing and borderline overreaching, the rest of the book walks you through Miki’s exploits via printed recollections from scores of his acquaintances (friends would not be the right word). Rensin’s interviews provide rich fodder for stories and anecdotes on Dora that keep you turning pages. Highlights include Greg Noll’s stories about the horrors of doing business with Miki on the Da Cat line of boards.....twice. In the end, Rensin does an excellent job of demystifying Dora while at the same time managing to maintain the man’s myth. No small feat. This is a good read. (September 2008) http://thewatermanslibrary.com/Site/Dora.html Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
For twenty years, Miki "Da Cat" Dora was the king of Malibu surfers--a dashing, enigmatic rebel who dominated the waves, ruled his peers' imaginations, and who still inspires the fantasies of wannabes to this day. And yet, Dora railed against surfing's sudden post-Gidget popularity and the overcrowding of his once empty waves, even after this avid sportsman, iconoclast, and scammer of wide repute ran afoul of the law and led the FBI on a remarkable seven-year chase around the globe in 1974. The New York Times named him "the most renegade spirit the sport has yet to produce" and Vanity Fair called him "a dark prince of the beach." To fully capture Dora's never-before-told story, David Rensin spent four years interviewing hundreds of Dora's friends, enemies, family members, lovers, and fellow surfers to uncover the untold truth about surfing's most outrageous practitioner, charismatic antihero, committed loner, and enduring mystery. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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