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 enlarge | Author: David Rensin
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 7196
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 475
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.7
ISBN: 0060773316
Dewey Decimal Number: 797.32092
EAN: 9780060773311
ASIN: 0060773316
Publication Date: April 8, 2008
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 DA CAT - MIKI (MICKEY) DORA - DAVID RENSIN June 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
EXCELLENT BOOK! David Rensin wrote a very interesting book about Miki Dora as told by many people who actually knew Miki! David Rensin did not try to tell the story from his point of view or as being a judge of Miki Dora's life! The reader is free to take a peak into his life and then draw their own conclusion as to who the person Miki Dora actually was and what kind of life he lived. Lot's of interviews with Dora's friends and enemies and this book is his life and times through their eyes. Very well done!
Excellent Bio May 31, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm not a surfer. I've never been on a board and until recently had little interest in surfing at all. I've only known of Dora for a few months but I pre-ordered this book as I knew he was someone worthy of understanding better.
The problem with writing a bio on Dora is that he was very private and very complex. Putting together anything that accurately conveys who he was is a monumental task. Was he a legend or a bum? Paranoid self-saboteur or rugged individualist? A guy who never quite got over his glory days at Malibu or mythic icon? Rensin doesn't discriminate or judge. By including all sides of Dora the picture is very complex yet complete - or as complete as it can be. He can't be written off as a self-absorbed con-artist and petty thief. Nor can he be written off as a hero. He was both of these things and much more and the author has done an excellent job of showing this.
Nearly all the negative reviews I've read here and elsewhere have been negative about the subject not the writing or the research. Disliking Dora is fine but don't blame writer. Does every bio of Hitler have a 1 star rating? No. Nor should you be knocking this book because Dora was a jerk.
And my question for Mr. Rensin: where's the movie? If I'm not mistaken the rights have been sold and I think an A-list actor owns those rights. Any chance of seeing Dora's story on the big screen anytime soon?
 STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS May 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Yet another biographical mish-mash on DaCat - Miki Dora. Lots of commentary from fellow surfers, past friends, who were few & far between, and miscellaneous others. Doesn't tell anything more than what the other books have written. Still a good read, especially if it's the first book you've picked up on this man.
 Outside the Pit May 26, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Stylistic surfer, enigmatic liar, mumbler, petty criminal and loaf...does that rate hero worship?... Having been just outside the pit as a kid during the early 60's of Malibu it is hard to imagine a book on the subject...Innuendo and rumor abounds in this portrayal of a mythic figure who is revealed to be deeply flawed and self promoting of his mumbo jumbo...This book ruined the mystery of Miki...who needed the cheap details of surfings first stellar wannabe bad boy?
R.I.P. Miki Dora, Your Legacy's Intact May 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An ideal personality for close observation, obviously. A lifestyle to envy, the stuff of fantasies. An excellent read, that's an understatement. Coming to a movie theater near you, bet on it!
Quite simply, Dora's life and its immaculate chronicling herein ought to have the big shots in his hometown of LA salivating over the rights to bring this story of the ultimate Silver Surfer to the silver screen.
If you only read one surfing book in your life, this is the one. If you only read one biography this year, same conclusion.
My only wish is I coulda been Mr. Dora. Having surfed since 1963, I always tried but never came close by any measure.
R.I.P. Miki Dora. Your legacy's intact.
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