All for a Few Perfect Waves, David Rensin
All for a Few Perfect Waves, David Rensin
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All for a Few Perfect Waves
The Audacious Life and Legend of Rebel Surfer Miki Dora

Author: David Rensin

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Unabridged: 19 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/28/2020

Synopsis

For twenty years, Miki "Da Cat" Dora was the king of Malibu surfers—a dashing, enigmatic rebel who dominated the waves, ruled his peers' imaginations, and who still inspires the fantasies of wannabes to this day. And yet, Dora railed against surfing's sudden post-Gidget popularity and the overcrowding of his once empty waves, even after this avid sportsman, iconoclast, and scammer of wide repute ran afoul of the law and led the FBI on a remarkable seven-year chase around the globe in 1974. The New York Times named him "the most renegade spirit the sport has yet to produce" and Vanity Fair called him "a dark prince of the beach." To fully capture Dora's never-before-told story, David Rensin spent four years interviewing hundreds of Dora's friends, enemies, family members, lovers, and fellow surfers to uncover the untold truth about surfing's most outrageous practitioner, charismatic antihero, committed loner, and enduring mystery.

About David Rensin

David Rensin is the New York Times bestselling author or coauthor of several books, including The Mailroom, All for a Few Perfect Waves, and Devil at My Heels. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Garen

This is a really neat book about this guy name Miki Dora who was a dickhead of absolutely epic proportions. I mean this guy stole, cheated, scammed, bitched and finagled his way through his entire life and he didn't change a bit until he was like 60. Then he started to mellow out a bit. If he wasn't......more

Goodreads review by Erica

The writing in this book was fine, but I was completely bored by the subject. His life wasn't all that "audacious," and by the end I had concluded he was a whiner, a bum, and probably a racist and anti-semite. Why did I keep reading a biography of someone who thought swastikas were an okay decorativ......more

Goodreads review by Brian

David Rensin does a pretty good job of presenting the story of one of surfing's most notorious characters without bias. The book reads a little choppy as a result of Rensin's decision to let the people who knew Miki best tell his stories in their own words. But after a few chapters I fell into a rhy......more

Goodreads review by Tim

Sometimes it's best not to find out too much about your heros. Miki Dora represented surfing rebellion dropping out of sight in the early 70's after pioneering the sport in Malibu in the late 30's. He was the surfing messiah blasting the commercial aspect of surfing and surf culture - "The clones ar......more

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