Pipe Dreams

A Surfer's Journey

De: Kelly Slater

Narrado por: Todd Haberkorn

Duración: 8 h y 26 m

Resumen del Editor

Soon to be an ABC reality series entitled Ultimate Surfer, starring 11-time World Surf League champion Kelly Slater.

Eleven-time world surfing champion, actor, and American heartthrob Kelly Slater tells his inspiring story of triumph over adversity.

From Beach Blanket Bingo to Baywatch to Blue Crush, surfing has fascinated people for years, and Kelly Slater is the sport’s hottest star. He has won more world championships than any other competitor, and he continues to change peoples’ minds about what can and can’t be done on a surfboard. His wild ride has included fame, fortune, a stint on Baywatch, and a high-profile relationship with Pamela Anderson. Not bad for a skinny kid from a broken home in Cocoa Beach, Florida.

In Pipe Dreams, Kelly takes the listener into oceans around the world to take on thunderous walls of water and shares the outrageous stories, solemn moments, and undeniable spirit that have made him a superstar.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2020 Kelly Slater (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers

good book

interesting how someone can be so good at something and be so focused on one thing from so early on.

great story

great story if you surf or not the reader was good too you get to see how the goat became the goat

Redo entire book

New narrator.
Boring monotone voice wrecks story

Inability to pronounce names of companies, contests, people and places wrecks story

Nice insight into Kelly's life.

it's nice and entertaining enough. i wanted to finish it as I was listening but it wasn't super captivating. i put it on during walks and it was perfect to listen do during them.

It was just ok

I didn't know much about Kelly Slater before. Story was a little long-winded and egotistical. But i guess if you figured out the strategy to win so many contests and so often, it's to be expected. If I hadn't been painting the house while I was listening, it may have been an in-progress book in my library for a long time.

I was a bit shocked, not in a good way, the words he wrote about his French stalker. The way he described her (hideous and at least 40 years old) and the fact that he could have killed her (holding her against the wall with a 12 ft fall with her 3 year old child hitting his leg and bringing him to his senses). Not sure if he is misogynistic or at the end of his rope. (BTW, a very short portion of the book - so don't buy it solely to hear this story).

Narrator pronunciation left a lot to be desired. Especially when he called Ocean Pacific "Op" instead of OP (O.P.) A little coaching would have been nice in name pronunciation would have helped the audiobook.

I may check out other better rated surf memoirs. It didn't turn me off from surf- themed books completely. But this guy's ego was a bit much.

Narration annoying

The narrator is clearly not a surfer or surf fan. The incessant blunders of pronunciation just took me out of the story. Did any editor listen to it before releasing it? Kelly definitely did not. Many a surf commentator could have done a beautiful job with this. Having heard Kelly discuss a lot of the content in his many interviews during contests, all the spoken gaffes while in the first person narration just ruined it. Mr. Haberkorn should have checked some Youtube videos if he was unsure about some of the text. Where in South America is Cape Hateras?
I enjoyed hearing about the first half of Kelly's career when I was not following surfing and being from Cocoa Beach, I enjoyed the common threads where some of our friends overlapped despite 10 years difference in our ages. It was hard to hear Brevard County mispronounced over and over again.

Geting to Known Kelly...

Great "Reading" for a surfer, longtime fan... surprised he was once scaried of Bigsurf, and of how tiring can the tour be.

What did he say?

Very common locations were badly pronounced in a nearly comical way but became less funny as the book went on.

Story is good but obviously dated. Narrator is awful.

Good book, I have it at home but decided to listen to the audiobook while at work. The narrator can’t pronounce any of the names, spots or companies. Like a slow Casey Casem. Redo it and read it for us Kelly!

Don’t buy… you don’t get the last 3 chapters

The story is fine but you don’t get the last 3 chapters so it’s not worth it.