Caught Inside

A Surfer’s Year on the California Coast

By: Daniel Duane

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin

A wondrous, uproarious, and surprisingly informative account of a year spend surfing, Caught Inside marks the arrival of an exuberant new voice of the outdoors. This remarkable narrative of Daniel Duane’s life on the water is enhanced by good-humored explanations of the physics of wave dynamics, the intricate art of surfboard design, and lyrical, sharp-eyed descriptions of the flora and fauna of the Pacific wilderness. From Captain Cook and Mark Twain to Robinson Jeffers and Jack London, from portraits of famous (and infamous) surfers to an analysis of Gidget’s perverse significance, Duane expertly uncovers the myths and symbols bound up in one of our most vibrant and recognizably American subjects.

©1996 Daniel Duane (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Great story, terrible audio narrator

Such a great story but atrocious narration if you listen as audio
The narrator sounds like a high school kid trying to read Shakespeare . Bad cadence , choppy wording and just sounds totally flat, I wish someone else would have narrated such a great book. Listening to Barbarian days prior to this made it sounds very amateurish narration . I got spoiled by William Finnegan incredible narration in Barbarian days. The story is great though. Just terrible narrator

Good if you're into this scene

I live on the great hwy (ocean beach) in SF so this is all very interesting to me and it's part of my lore and community. If you don't live here in SF, this might not be for you. The narrator is sub-par, mispronouncing many things a surfing californian would not, including such basics "San Onofre", and other words one should not mispronounce if a paid professional reader, such as "palimpsest." But his tone is earnest and likeable enoough even if lacking credibility.

Great read!

loved it. you will love the journey through the best surfing locations that California has to offer. I felt like I became part of the surfing culture while reading this book.

The Surfer Memoir that Changed Everything

Daniel Duane moved to Santa Cruz in the mid-90s, looking for something. He dove down a dark, watery rabbit hole, living by the tides and swells of the Pacific Ocean.

What started out as a hobby turned into an obsession— and it's no lie to say Duane pulled more men in with him, than Neptune could've ever imagined. Caught Inside became the definitive surfing bible of the modern middle class surfing generation.

Duane takes his listeners into the "lineup" to experience the localism, the stink-eye, the beauty and danger of surfing.

Coming from a VERY outside place, Duane understands there's an "inside" place to be, and he gets guided in to find his own bearings— a story any man, in or out of the water, will relate to.

Beta Male Tale

Book was a potpourri of somewhat interesting surfing anecdotes overshadowed by an author who was never taught how to use a thesaurus or develop a coherent story an instead just rambles about musings because he lacked interesting content.