Download Cocaine + Surfing A Sordid History of Surfing Greatest Love Affair Audible Audio Edition Chas Smith Tom Pile Audible Studios Books

Product details Audible Audiobook Listening Length 7 hours and 19 minutes Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Publisher Audible Studios Audible.com Release Date June 12, 2018 Language English, English ASIN B07C7RCDXB

Cocaine + Surfing A Sordid History of Surfing Greatest Love Affair Audible Audio Edition Chas Smith Tom Pile Audible Studios Books Reviews

• This was a tough one to get through, just because I loved welcome to paradise so much. Chas has a very humorous prose and tends to use self awareness to take it to absurdity. I wanted to like this book so much more but the connections just felt so forced. Again, the lack of names to stories makes it difficult to paint a picture and satisfy baseline curiosity and so I found it so tough to really get into this one. It’s tough to throw out criticism like this towards an author I do get a lot of joy out of reading but this one just didn’t resonate with me, but to each their own.
• But Chas barks up my tree and his general viewpoint is akin to mine... so I would have read this book even if it sucked, which it might have? Love the perspective of surfing through a very informed S. Cal cool industry intertwined surfer guy. While talking about how the surf industry protects surfers from openly reveling in their cocaine based antics Chas does still omit names and do the same...I suppose to protect himself. Cocaine + Surfing is definitely not a tell all, but it wants to be.
• A bunch of nothing... waste your time reading it .. starts out with a interesting premise which dissolves into boring rhetoric
• Did not like the fact that he protected the names of many of the people involved in his musings, and seemed to have tunnel vision in searching for his title connection.
• Easy read, providing insight into an avenue of surfing. I bet Rory Parker actually liked it. Why are 4 more words required?
• Great book. Very entertaining. Chas is a talent. He took up a challenging topic and wrote a thought provoking book (not to mention very funny) Hopefully this gets the conversation started. Well done.
• I have never surfed but enjoyed this book. This is a much better book than Girl on the Train.
• Surfing needs more humor, and writers who know how to use it. Chas is one of the best at that, and I read anything that he puts out. This book is a fun, quick read that should be consumed by any literate surfer who can laugh at our silly world.