Originally posted by: TeeBirdForever Originally posted by: moody I didn't think Caught Inside was that bad. But I like Dan Duane's other stuff. I have a collection of women's surf stories called Girl In the curl that's pretty good if a bit hokey - it's got profiles of women surfers and I enjoyed that aspect (I can never read enough about Rell Sun). I refuse to give Allen Weispecker any money so I won't recommend Captain Zero, but it was a pretty good read if a bit psychedelic and self-absorbed (not as bad as his second one, in which he goes totally batpoop crazy and which I read more because someone handed it to me and said "can you BELIEVE this crap?) We need better surf literature. I am reduced to reading William Finnegan's (he wrote Barbarian Days) articles in the New Yorker.
Caught Inside is good. So is Looking for Mo.
All my books are packed away. Getting ready to move from the Gulf Coast to Vero Beach area. Captain Zero was OK. Like Tee bird, I think Wisenbecker is way too self absorbed. There was another book he wrote that honestly it is the worse thing I have every read. So bad I don’t recall the Title. A book on the rise of the Surf industry called World In Curl is good give some insight to uthe rise of Surf culture and the the Commercialization of Surfing. Barbarian Days is coming up for a 2nd read. Kook a book written by a Sports writer from Colorado is about his journey into Surfing.
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