The Rincon Notebooks: Before the Storm von Brian Unger

Told through the eyes of an ex-pat professor of American literature, author Norman Fischer describes The Rincn Notebooks as ''... a postmodern update of Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary and Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises,'' while surfing historian Scott Laderman says, ''if Hunter S. Thompson wrote about surfing, it would probably look a lot like The Rincn Notebooks. Sex, drugs, surf, and Buddhism, The Rincn Notebooks has it all.''