Pipin Reloaded
Posted By Paul Kotik on 11 October 2004
I don’t really know how The Dive will fly with the general public, or whether the Cameron film will ever be made. Amazon.com, as of this writing, has the book ranked in 36,796th place in sales. It is the sort of book one finds in a vacation rental house, reads over cold Coronas of an evening and passes on to one’s pal. I think the underlying stories, those of Pipin, Audrey and their lives together, have most of the elements of monumental drama. This book, though, despite the top-drawer raw material and Linda Robertson’s efforts, does not nearly rise to greatness.
Some readers may conclude that Pipin’s own criticism of Luc Besson’s The Big Blue applies as well to The Dive : “…half fiction, half bad acting.” There's no way around it, though: it is mandatory reading for freedivers, who will be by turns disgusted, enraged and fascinated. You have to read it. Seconds and used copies are already available at steep discounts on Amazon.com, and would make splendid holiday gifts for the freedivers dearest to you.
Freedivers can gift it to non-freediving significant others as a warning.
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