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(2) Sea Level
Like a lot of great writers, Wolff works because he's very easy to get into. He speaks with a lot of eloquence, but he's not into fancy words and he gets right to his point (or at least sneaks up on it in an interesting way). He's writing about a teenager and wants to appeal to teen sensibilities. There's plenty of weighty thoughts here, but also an easy way of expressing them so that we don't waste any time hunting down a dictionary.