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	• Tapping the Source Kem Nunn Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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One of the Best Books I've Ever Read

I've bought about 10 copies of this book and given 9 away. It's one of the best books ever. Every teenage who is intelligent should read it. My 19 year old son just read it and loved it, too. Well written, dark, satisfying and heart-wrenching, good ending. Fantastic piece of art.

Outstanding but fatally flawed

Three and half stars. Outstanding for the most part, fatally flawed near the end. A grim tale of wasted talent and paradise lost. As second generation SoCal, I witnessed the transtion of the OC from a great place to live into an overcrowded, often violent/amoral sprawl. Nunn's characters and atmosphere spot-on. Some nice slices of irony, particularly with the title. Occasionally marred by verbosity, but mostly lucid -- met the challenge of describing surfing. Narrative was well-paced, suspenseful, driving to anticipated revelation, then clunk -- a preposterous climax dissolving several characters. Too bad, because as I read along, I had high hopes for a real work of art. Ultimately, TAPPING THE SOURCE speaks to the thousands of talented (and not so talented) young people who wasted it all in the pursuit of getting high. Another stain on the progressive philosophy of life...

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Hella Tight

A great "SoCal" story. The prose is beautiful and tight and inspiring. The ending is a bit flat, but this story is a journey, not a destination. It's got dark passages, not too gratuitous, and it is ultimately the growth of the main characters that carries the book.

Recommended.

A Must-Read

A fantastic book, great story, characters are compelling, and if you surf you will especially be captivated from beginning to end (you'll still enjoy the book even if you don't surf). In my top 10 for all-time reads.

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People go to Huntington Beach in search of the endless parties, the ultimate highs and the perfect waves. Ike Tucker has come to look for his missing sister and for the three men who may have murdered her. In that place of gilded surfers and sun-bleached blondes, Ike's search takes him on a journey through a twisted world of crazed Vietnam vets, sadistic surfers, drug dealers, and mysterious seducers. Ike looks into the shadows and finds parties that drift towards pointless violence, joyless vacations and highs you might never come down from ... and a sea of old hatreds and dreams gone bad. And if he's not careful, his is a journey from which he will never return.

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