SURF BOOKS what one would you read

by **jay32** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 6:52 pm

Ive read Kelly slater, pipe dreams, really enjoyed it! and Ive just ordered kook!

What other good surfing books do you guys recomend?

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by **surfnoob** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:04 am

Riding the Magic Carpet:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Riding-Magic-Carpet-Surfers-Odyssey/dp/1840245026/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315303407&sr=8-1

Do a search on this forum - its cropped up before.

by **Rock bus** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:31 pm

for books with surf relates stories check out kem nunn,his books are fantastic

by **billie_morini** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:07 pm

An absolute, must read for surfers = Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast by Daniel Duane

Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave by Peter Heller

Stoked! by Bob McTavish

The Encyclopedia of Surfing by Matt Warshaw

Greg Noll: The Art Of The Surfboard by Drew Kampion and Greg Noll

Nat's Nat and That's That : A Surfing Legend by Nat Young

Legends of Surfing: The Greatest Surfriders from Duke Kahanamoku to Kelly Slater by Duke Boyd, Jeff Divine and Steve Pezman

by **jay32** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 6:09 am

billie_morini wrote:An absolute, must read for surfers = Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast by Daniel Duane

Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave by Peter Heller

Stoked! by Bob McTavish

The Encyclopedia of Surfing by Matt Warshaw

Greg Noll: The Art Of The Surfboard by Drew Kampion and Greg Noll

Nat's Nat and That's That : A Surfing Legend by Nat Young

Legends of Surfing: The Greatest Surfriders from Duke Kahanamoku to Kelly Slater by Duke Boyd, Jeff Divine and Steve Pezman

Nice 1 billie! plenty of reading material for me to get on with

by **APH** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 6:30 am

Pretty sure it was a Kem Nunn book I read years ago called Tapping the source. It was a mystery/crime book based around a guy looking for his sister who was mixed up in the surf scene somehow, and he had to learn to surf etc etc. Cant remember a lot about but do remember it was passed around a group of us and we all enjoyed it

by **surf patrol** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:21 am

If you want some surf crime fiction, Ben Rayner writes a good story. He has a series of books about Fat Bennie, a surfing PI in Chicago. They are an entertaining read.

by **Rock bus** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 8:00 pm

APH - yep tapping the source is one of his. first one i read and loved it (enough to get a tattoo related to it done!!)
all his other are great -they are crime/drama based but normally have something surf related in them

by **APH** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:20 am

Rock bus wrote:APH - yep tapping the source is one of his. first one i read and loved it (enough to get a tattoo related to it done!!)
all his other are great -they are crime/drama based but normally have something surf related in them

Hey Rockbus. I read it about 20 yrs ago. Think the cover was some sort of circular wave pattern. Is that what the tattoo is of? At least four of my friends read it and we all said it would have made a good tattoo. Ordered a copy of one of Ben Rayners books so another good read to look forward to

by **surf patrol** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:24 am

APH wrote:Ordered a copy of one of Ben Rayners

They are not the best written books, but he does tell a good story. I enjoyed reading.
Here's a review I did of the ghost of Jeff Davis

by **Katsura** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:57 am

POINT BREAK! Bodhi would do it

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