Thrasher released a book that runs down the 200+ places you need to skate at before you die, or before your knees give out. Or before you have kids and move to Long Island. In honor of proving that we have actually stepped inside of a bookstore in the past fifty years, I wrote up a brief review of it, explaining how Thrasher’s publishing department broke my heart with their laziness.

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*I use the word “read” lightly here. I am aware that the majority of skateboarders have not made it past the fourth grade and are generally incapable of reading, so I would never dream of writing about a book that had a whole bunch of small squiggly lines and words and shit in it.

The other day, I was having one of those rare real-life conversations about skateboarding — the type of conversation that usually only exists within the confines of the Slap message board, where people are capable of debating who has the best wallie or no comply with a straight face. But granted that street skateboarding has existed for about twenty years at this point, and set certain precedents, made certain cities synonymous with skateboarding to many people born after 1980, and above all, given all of us an immeasurable amount of stories about what we have seen growing up skating our favorite spot, it seems appropriate to make a book solely about spots. Not as mere footnotes in a biography (which seems the most common way skateboarding winds up on a bookshelf), but a biography about certain spots themselves.