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Title: tapping the cliches
Review: this is a pretty good surfing story but that's not saying much. anyone who knows surfing knows the movies and books about it are a joke. kem nunn needs to join a good fiction workshop. get rid of the excessive passive voice--ike was looking at the ocean becomes ike looked at the ocean-- and cut down on the description. the first time ike sees the ocean nunn pours on the description. what hemingway said about the iceberg is true. just give the reader a whiff of the pacific, and move the story forward. the reader will sense the ocean and it will be much more effective. instead nunn writers four pages of description. most of the characters are very close to being complete cliches. if i hear one more elder surfer trying to teach a younger surfer of the soul of the ocean, i'm liable to start singing kumbyya. i barely got through this book. his other book, the dogs of winter, is better, though still annoying and cliched
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