A review by emmay8
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan

2.0

This book had potential. It started out great but then meandered into ridiculously long narratives of specific waves that made little sense to a non-surfer. William Finnegan has a vast vocabulary and it sometimes seems as if he attempted to cram every interesting word he knows into one book. The effect of this was long, slogging, overly wordy descriptions and chapters that felt endless. It picked up again towards the end and became easier to read. But then veered back into its prior verbosity which made me desperate to just finish it already. I stubbornly insisted on finishing but it was absolutely a chore.