I love this author. I spent most of my first 60 years living in Bondi so this book sang to me from the start.
Thanks Monty - love your work!

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Bondi Days: An Obituary Paperback – 15 June 2022
by
Monty Webber
(Author)
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An autobiographical account of surf culture at Bondi Beach.
- Print length128 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date15 June 2022
- Dimensions12.7 x 0.74 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-13979-8836314569
Product details
- ASIN : B0B3N4C365
- Publisher : Independently published (15 June 2022)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 128 pages
- ISBN-13 : 979-8836314569
- Dimensions : 12.7 x 0.74 x 20.32 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 165,545 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 5,146 in Community & Culture Biographies
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Reviewed in Australia on 3 September 2023
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Reviewed in Australia on 30 December 2022
Yeah, I enjoyed this. I picked it up late one day, and finished it early the next morning. I found myself studying the multitude of photos and laughing out aloud at some of the 70's and 80's style gags!
I suspect this book might be the 'hidden gem' in the historical record of Bondi's 70/80's surf culture. What really stands out for me in Monty's portrayal of this period is the brutal competitiveness of the surfing at Bondi at this time, and the sizeable number of 'Name' surfers that this competitiveness cultivated. The book also captures a Life's Journey and the risks that remaining in this 'Scum Valley' (Bondi) environment for too long could do to those immersed in it. Monty bravely talks about his own journey and goes places others may not dare. He also provides numerous examples of the successful and the tragically failed lives around him. It's hard not to be a little grateful to Monty.... firstly for entertaining us, but also for the cultural record.
Jase
I suspect this book might be the 'hidden gem' in the historical record of Bondi's 70/80's surf culture. What really stands out for me in Monty's portrayal of this period is the brutal competitiveness of the surfing at Bondi at this time, and the sizeable number of 'Name' surfers that this competitiveness cultivated. The book also captures a Life's Journey and the risks that remaining in this 'Scum Valley' (Bondi) environment for too long could do to those immersed in it. Monty bravely talks about his own journey and goes places others may not dare. He also provides numerous examples of the successful and the tragically failed lives around him. It's hard not to be a little grateful to Monty.... firstly for entertaining us, but also for the cultural record.
Jase
Reviewed in Australia on 21 May 2023
awesome book! everyone should buy it! his oldest daughter must be awesome
Reviewed in Australia on 7 September 2022
Sometimes a biography is simply that - a person’s voyage through life. This is something bastly different - Webber has managed to not just tell his own story but has writte a biography of a place - Bondi - which holds so much affection among so many Australians. He tells its true story - its addictions and undersides, its craziness and waywardness - which has so often been lost in the usual ‘beach glamour’ depictions of the area. ButvI think he’s done even more than that and given us a postcard of a lost generation, one we’ll never see again. This is by far and away the best retrospective of a time and a place I have ever read. A masterpiece of straight, unalloyed story-telling.