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Summary: Stoked!
Review: Daniel Duane captures more than just the sport of surfing; the lifestyle and passion of everyday surfers is elegantly revealed by Caught Inside. If you are looking for tales of big wave heroics look elsewhere. If you can relate to Henry Beston (The Outermost House) meets Bruce Brown (The Endless Summer) this book will leave you stoked.
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Summary: it was well written but itl eft me wanting more surf stories
Review: daniel duane is a great write, he mixes in history of california and surfing with his own experience on the claifornia course. the book starts out good, with many stories of surfing and insights to his childhood. the book became kind of tedious reading when he spents chapters talking about animals and marine life rather than surfing. also in some cases he started a story and ended just when you wanted to know more. i say read the book but it's definitely a five star performance
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Summary: Mr. Duane, you're No Sebastian Junger!
Review: Total waste of time, pages and pages of sentimental babble
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Summary: a waste of time, read Perfect Storm instead
Review: I kept waiting for it to get good, but it just fizzled like a wet firecracker, you expect it to end with something special but...
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Summary: Learning to Soul-Surf
Review: I found a copy in the used book shop in Puetro Escondido. Great story to read while surf-travelling. I passed to book on to another traveller. Hopefully it's still out there.
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Summary: kinda dull, sophomoric, self absorbed
Review: I grew up on the ocean, I know all too well of its power and allure, I am also a surfer. He seems too concerned about what a surfer should be and wear. Ex: hooded sweatshirts. And why the slap at mountain bikers? Are they really geeks? c'mon, grow up, Mr. Good Karma shortboarder! Go after jet skiers instead. They are the enemy I will say the history was damn good, he should focus his work on that, he shows a true knack for that. However his is description of the California coast reads like a Berkeley freshman's essay. My advice to those who gave this book 5 stars: lay off the bong hits and surf some more.
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Summary: "Duane is the man!!"
Review: Duane's command of the ocean lingo is second to none. His imagery weaves a incredible feast for the imagination, where you can almost feel the cold water of the pacific lapping on your board while you sit outside at the end of a long day, watching the sun come down on the water... wishing you could stay out forever! Fantastic must read for all types of surf afficionados.. from photographers to divers to lowly longboarders"
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Summary: an american beauty
Review: This book is a classic. It was part of the inspiration for a recent road trip my girlfriend and i took from Illinois all the way to California just to learn how to surf. It's full of man and nature musings about just where we fit in, and his explanations of the forced meditation of balance sports are just beautiful. Not just a book for men, Caught Inside shows us how to find purpose in simplicity. I loved it.
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Summary: Commited to Surfing
Review: As a land-locked non-surfer, I read this book to get an idea of what surfing is like. I can't vouch for its accuracy but it did seem to capture something about the reality of surfing, that is, surfing in all conditions, learning by doing and from willing masters, always checking ocean conditions and being ready to drop everything and everybody when waves roll in. Sometimes a paragraph or two seemed to get ethereal (or aquarial?) to the point of being unintelligible but that was a small glitch in an otherwise informative book about the quest for good waves unspoiled by wind or bad weather, surfboard shaping and engineering, careers and lifestyles built around tide charts, sharks, coastal flora and fauna and the pecking order of surfers at a local break. A good read that breaks through the romance of surfing to expose the work of committing to this strenuous sport.
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Summary: Great Read !!!1
Review: I enjoyed this book very much. In fact, I could not put it down once I started. Duane is an excellent writer & really gives you the feeling that you are spending each day surfing with him at his spots along the CA. coast. He captures the solitude that all surfers crave...but can't explain to others.
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