Iwan's book report

Title: Caught by the sea

Author: Gary Paulsen

Publisher: Dell Laurel-leaf

Place & year of publication: September 2004

Where I found it: CHS library

Number of pages: 103 pg.

Summery

After Gary Paulsen retires from the army he decides to head out to sea.  While reading he takes you along on his maiden voyage. He also proves that ignorance can be a real bliss and dangerous.  His inspiration to go sailing and to buy a sailboat came when a Hollywood star invited him and a few writers to his cabin by the lake. One morning going for a walk he meets a man who offers to take him sailing on the lake.  He enjoyed it so much he decided to buy his own sailboat.

Finding a sailboat wasn’t as easy as he thought. Some looked brilliant from the outside, but inside the wood was rotten right trough. So he tells of the many boats he had good, bad and beloved and how they brought him trough many storms.

Gary takes you on his journey on the Pacific Ocean.  Sailing under the stars, fighting monster waves, sailing in tropical lagoons where dolphin’s leap by his side. Gary Paulsen takes readers on his lifelong learning curve, because you don’t learn to sail overnight and readers will see why his passion has lasted unto this day.

Christian perspective

There isn’t really much that the character does wrong from an Christian perspective. Gary didn’t say he was a Christian and but trough his writing you can see Christian characteristics like patience. In this book there is no battle between good and evil, but some of the businessmen did cheat him by trying to sell him old and rotten boats at extremely high prices.

My thoughts

I don’t really like biographies but this one wasn’t too bad.  It was an action and adventure packed book and I would recommend this to someone who likes adventure books and is forced to read a biography.