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Boy Protagonists (22) Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I found this wooden, implausible, boring, and didactic. Too bad because the subject matter -- dolphins at the mercy of illegal tuna fishing boats -- has a lot of potential for a meaningful and exciting story. There were some good survival story moments when the hero Billy (the eighteen-year-old-but-reads-as-ten-year-old boy trying to stop a particular tuna boat called The Lucky Dragon, captained by the most stock villain ever to be written) is stranded at sea, but otherwise‰ÃƒÂ›_I have rarely read such awkward writing in a published novel. Not good. ( ) After losing his job as a surf tour instructor, the main character becomes a boatman on the Lucky Dragon. The Dragon is a tuna fishing boat that uses illegal practices which end up killing dolphins. With the help of Chatter, a remarkable dolphin who always shows up at the right place at the right time, and an environmental group dead set on stopping the Dragon, Billy fights back. A bit far-fetched for my taste and the odd love triangle between the dolphin, Billy, and a pretty environmentalist didn't ring true. The action of the plot kept me going though. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Billy Crawford is a blond, eighteen-year-old surfer from Southern California, working in Fiji as a surfing instructor. But when he gets fired for leading his students into some dangerous surf, his endless summer seems to be over, and he decides that it's time to get a real job. He comes across a tuna clipper called Lucky Dragon whose crew is short a boatman, and the first mate offers him a job. What Billy doesn't know is that the clipper finds tuna by following dolphins. When Lucky Dragon sets its net for the first time, Billy witnesses a harrowing sightâ??dolphins being killed by the Dragon's money-hungry pirates. When he attempts to save a dolphin who is caught in the tuna net, the Dragon's captain tosses Billy and his belongingsâ??including his surfboardâ??into the ocean an Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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