Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell
A True Story of Violence, Corruption, and the Soul of Surfing
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Chas Smith
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Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell is surfer and former war reporter Chas Smith's wild and unflinching look at the high-stakes world of surfing on Oahu's North Shore - a riveting, often humorous, account of beauty, greed, danger, and crime.
For two months every winter, when Pacific storms make landfall, swarms of mainlanders, Brazilians, Australians, and Europeans flock to Oahu's paradisiacal North Shore in pursuit of some of the greatest waves on earth for surfing's Triple Crown competition. Chas Smith reveals how this influx transforms a sleepy, laid-back strip of coast into a lawless, violent, drug-addled, and adrenaline-soaked mecca.
Smith captures this exciting and dangerous place where locals, outsiders, the surf industry, and criminal elements clash in a fascinating look at class, race, power, money, and crime, set within one of the most beautiful places on earth. The result is a breathtaking blend of crime and adventure that captures the allure and wickedness of this idyllic golden world.
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A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past 20 years, from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Congo. For the past decade, he has served as the East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times, fulfilling his teenage dream of living in Africa. Love, Africa is the story of how he got there - and of his difficult, winding path toward becoming a good reporter and a better man.
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Loved this book!!!
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Running with Raven
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Raven Kraft has changed the lives of thousands who have run with him - many of them hundreds of times. From all 50 states and dozens of countries, across all age groups and backgrounds, they come to run with Raven, and in the process find friendship, inspiration - and a nickname. Among them is author Laura Lee "White Lightning" Huttenbach, who has logged over 1,000 miles of Raven Runs. Here she explores the stories of dozens of others about why they started running with Raven - and why they keep coming back.
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Wonderful
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Sharks in the Time of Saviors
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In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the stuff of legends. Nainoa’s family, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry, hails his rescue as a sign of favor from ancient Hawaiian gods - a belief that appears validated after he exhibits puzzling new abilities.
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Glad This Was Free
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The Kings of Cool
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- Narrated by: Holter Graham
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In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twentysomething best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. Now, in his high-octane prequel, Winslow reaches back in time to tell the story of how Ben, Chon, and O became the people they are. Spanning from 1960s Southern California to the recent past, it is a tale of family in all its forms. As the younger generation does battle with drug dealers and crooked cops, they learn that their future is inextricably linked with their parents' history.
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The truth always come home...
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By: Don Winslow
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Different that I expected
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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Maybe it resonated with a different time and place
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Paul Tremblay is totally nuts.
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Point B
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When the corporate monolith PortSys brought porting to the masses, CEO Emilia Kirsch and her son, Jason, accomplished what every other start-up company had failed to deliver. They really did change the world. They reversed climate change. They created a multitrillion-dollar industry out of thin air, curing economic woes across the globe. They made it so that anyone could be anywhere simply by touching a screen...including the man who murdered Sarah Huff. Now, Sarah’s 17-year-old sister, Anna, is determined to hunt the bastard down. But there are a few problems.
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Sherry Potter’s only got one spell: portkey
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Hellboy: Oddest Jobs
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could go with more authors that know Source materi
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By: Author Various
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We Begin at the End
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Horrible narrator in this audible book
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By: Chris Whitaker
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The Voice of the Night with Short Story, "Silence"
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No one could understand why Colin and Roy were best friends. Colin was so shy; Roy was so popular. Colin was fascinated by Roy - and Roy was fascinated by death. Then one day, Roy asked his timid friend: “You ever killed anything?” From that moment on, the two were bound together in a game too terrifying to imagine - and too irresistible to stop.
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can not believe dean koontz wrote this book
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- Anonymous User
- 02-13-21
Real
Good listen
I lived Chaz's North Shore experience in the 80's for about 17 years.
It was the Balls I have so many crazy intense soul filling memories !
Thanks Chaz but beat u to it I just wasn't keen enough to write a book.
I actually took on Heavier than you.
Hawaiian Mana is Real !!!
Thank you Hawaii Nea!
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- Michael
- 12-04-22
Another view of the the surf industry and the north shore
Chaz is a good writer with a sense of social intelligence of a complex local North Shote hierarchy. Worth a read.
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- D. J. Robesky
- 11-23-21
If you are a true Surfer you must surf on the North Shore, Once
This is an excellent book, which documents the intricacies of the violent realities that exist for any surfer who feel they have the mettle, thevbravery and enough mental screws loose in their mindset to endure the alpha male dominated, day to night 24 hour chose and drama. I liken this book to Jon Krakauer’s, “In to Thin Air,” an adventure nonfiction book about similar in chaos and drama that unfolds while climbing mount Everest. That's a tall order to claim, I know! However, being a surfer and mountainer myself, I can relate to the this amazing piece of journalism. Plus the narration is done by author, Chas Smith. He is remarkable in telling his story.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-06-23
a truly entrancing novel.
having no background to surfing, and never even seeing the Pacific, this book kept me.
as much as it follows one man, this book truly is the voice of hundreds. engaging from the point of several cultures and where they meet. time to visit Hawaii with a new found respect, and hesitancy.
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- Jeff Serena
- 06-16-22
Great book
Won’t lie, at first I didn’t like it because the author I felt was trying to sound smart and better than the reader. As the book went along I found it enjoyable and understood his writing style better. I think he hits the nail on the head. The islands are Hawaiians and need to be respected when visited. Hopefully people will understand that and treat the islands and people who live there with respect when visiting.
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- tanya
- 06-16-23
Amazing
Loved everything about this book. I’m a lover of Oahu! I’ll forever look at the North Shore from a new perspective. I felt like I was night next to the author!
Amazing writer!
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- TillerPhoto5280
- 10-26-24
Him learning about north shore
I am learning how to surf on Oahu. And books like this totally help with why I want to learn.
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- Chaffed
- 12-25-20
Pink Button Down
Finished it in 2 or 3 days. I found it really interesting. . . .
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- Mark
- 07-20-22
Huh, we’ll damn
I get Chaz now. He writes very well, but not sure if he’s brave or stupid
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- jason Moyer
- 08-02-23
If you surf this is the book for you
The most fun book of you have ever followed the WSL or how it used to be known as the ASP. North shore folk lore is our Greek mythology.
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