Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave

Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave Review

I had just a minute at the bookstore before catching a flight home from Oahu after a few days of surfing. I am a really new KOOK so when I saw this book on the shelf I just had to buy it. I LOVED this book... The author tells the story of his real life journey of traveling the Baja and mainland Mexico coast in what becomes a "spiritual quest" to go from kook to shredder in just 6 months. The book is about surfing yes - and as a kook I could REALLY identify with the joy of my new love, the frustrations, and the hilarity at times. But Kook is MORE than a book that's just about surfing. Really I felt surfing was just the metaphor (and a very fun vehicle) the author used to describe his journey in life as he strives to learn more about himself, his capacity to love (or not) and the emotional impact of the destruction of our sacred oceans.

This book could have gotten really bogged down in deep thoughts and really depressing commentary but then it would have lost it's overall appeal as a compelling, fun read. It was a great escape and at the same time planted seeds of the very serious issues we all need to be aware of and more involved with. Overall, I laughed, I cried, and I couldn't put the book down until I was done!

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• ISBN13: 9780743294201
• Condition: New
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Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave Overview

With grit, poetry, and humor, Peter Heller, acclaimed author of The Whale Warriors recounts his remarkable journey of discovery—of surfing, an entirely new challenge; of the ocean’s beauty and power; of the strange surf subculture; of love; and, most of all, of how to seek adventure while crafting a meaningful life.

Having resolved to master a big-hollow wave— that is, to go from kook (surfese for beginner) to shredder—in a single year, Heller travels from Southern California down the coast of Mexico in the company of his girlfriend and the eccentric surfers they meet. Exuberant and fearless, Heller explores the technique and science of surfing the secrets of its culture, and the environmental ravages to the stunning coastline he visits.

As Heller plumbs the working of his own heart and finds joy in both love and surfing, he affords readers vivid insight into this fascinating world, with all of its perils and pleasures, its absurdity and wonder. Exhilarating, entertaining, and moving, Kook is a love story between a man and his surfboard, a man and his girlfriend, a not-so-old man and the sea.

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