Experience Pipeline (An Interactive Adventure Book)
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (628 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003K16QNG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 172 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Henderson, Heritage Middle School, Deltona, FLCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Ultimately? Don't go there, dude.—H. From School Library Journal Grade 7 Up—Readers create their own adventures with the flip of a coin that determines a course through 300 different plot choices. Avid surfers may be able to hang with Haber but landlubbers might find that the lingo impedes understanding. Warning: they will need a strong background knowledge of surfing to navigate this text. H. . There's an extensive glossary (more flipping back and forth) and a weak Web site link. The novelty may engage reluctant readers
Jim Neal said What a Ride ! ! !. Fun!!!! This is a fabulously entertaining take on big wave surfing at one of the world's most renowned spotsand someplace most of us mere mortals will never have the opportunity to surf. The numerous sceneraios and opportunities to "Experience Pipeline" and the random nature of how your experience plays out is novel and lots of fun. I've done a few "paddle outs" and enjoyed each onesome ending in success and others in dismal failure. There are over 80 different situtations in which you can involve yourself on a first-person level, and I find myself deep in visualization of the actionwhat a g. Wow what a wild ride! Daryl Gates And I never even left the comfort of my couch! Very creative and inventive way to surf the big stuff in Hawaii which most of us will never be able to do throw out the surfer magazines because this gives a much better experience of actually riding along with the world's best on the most dangerous and exhilarating waves.. A choose your own adventure book suggesting readers flip a coin to determine their fate in the novel's story Midwest Book Review The final heat of the Pipeline surfing contest - "Experience Pipeline" is a choose your own adventure book suggesting readers flip a coin to determine their fate in the novel's story, promoting over 300 possible plot lines and nearly one hundred different endings. Sure to entertain young surfing fans for hours, "Experience Pipeline" is highly recommended for community library fiction collections looking for more of the fading 'choose your own adventure genre.
In this 'determine your own adventure book', you're the surf star, and you're competing against two other pros for the world title. It's just you - the reader - and your two rivals on the final day of competition. The action is gripping, the drama is high, and the waves are huge and out of control! You may end up dropping down the face of a 20-foot wave, getting tubed, or wiping out. There are over 300 possible storylines, which all begin when you paddle into the waves at the Pipe Masters contest - the last stop on the professional surfing tour. Or, you could die! Either way, the action is fast and riveting.It all depends on the toss of a coin, which in this book is the mode for moving from page to page. You may even be running off into the sunset with an amazing Brazilian body boarde
. He wrote Experience Pipeline as an endeavour to put a reader directly into the heart of surfing's most treacherous and famous wave - Banzai Pipeline, the wave that all surfers know but that few will ever surf. Surf travel started him on a sporadic career of photography and journalism. While in San Francisco he wo