Do You like book Tapping The Source (2005)?
Un chouette petit bouquin, j'ai bien aimé être dans la peau de cet adolescent. J'ai ressenti ça moi aussi à 17 ans, que rien n'avait d'importance. J'ai bu la tasse avec lui, j'ai eu envie de me mettre au surf, de ressentir tout cela. J'ai moins aimé la fin, je ne m'attendais pas à ça et j'ai trouvé que cela tombait comme un cheveu sur la soupe. En revanche j'ai aimé la love story, si pure malgré tout, entre le héros et sa princesse ! On est pris dans l'histoire, on se laisse porter, c'est extrême par moment, comme le héros de Sin City. J'ai regretté de ne pas être plein de la mer pour lire cette histoire et entendre les vagues en même temps. Kem Nunn est un vrai metteur en scène, il fait vivre ses décors de manière très sensible. Il est aussi psychologue, on entre dans la peau de ses personnages, tous attachants, ou plutôt "humains trop humains". Une très recommandable lecture de plage.
—Catfat
In my youth I used to listen to The Beach Boys and Jan and Dean sing about Southern California- the beautiful girls and boys, the surf, the sand...sun sun sun...fun fun fun. Everyone was smiling...everyone was friendly...no one had a care in the world. This novel is NOT The Beach Boys or Jan and Dean's version of The Huntington Beach surf culture...far from it. While they were STILL singing Surfin' Safari and Surf City -during the 70s and 80s- serial killers and rapists were using the beaches as hunting grounds, skinheads, biker gangs and clueless runaways were settling in for the long haul, and there were plenty of drugs drugs drugs. TAPPING THE SOURCE is THAT version.18-year-old Ike Tucker has never strayed far from the dead-end desert town of San Acro. Not that he has any real ties to the place- His mother fled loooooooooong ago leaving him and his sister Ellen in the care of her zealot mother and less than warm and fuzzy brother- Gordon. And Ellen took off two years ago without a goodbye- her whereabouts unknown to him......Until a friend of Ellen's tracks Ike down- The young surfer says he knows where she was just a short time ago- but fears she is in danger or already dead. He leaves Ike with a location and the names of the men she was last seen with before she disappeared. Hound Adams, Terry Jacobs and Frank Baker.With only those clues Ike grabs his life savings- and heads off for the last place Ellen was seen- Huntington Beach Ca. His plan- blend in as much as possible, and get close to the locals. So he checks into a cheap hotel, cuts off his jeans, buys a board, and heads to the beach to try his hand at surfing. At first things don't go as well as he hoped, and when he gets punched in the face for not following the proper surfer etiquette- Ike thinks maybe he is going to need a new plan. ...But his luck seems to change when he meets Preston Marsh- a burned out biker and Vietnam Vet, who used to be one of THE star surfers in the 60s before life beat him down. The two form a bond through their love of bikes and Ike's new found love of surfing. Eventually he trusts him with his story and... Yes...Preston knows Hound Adams- in fact they used to be best friends and business partners back in the day- unfortunately that is all he will say on the matter......And Ike realizes that not only is his friendship with Preston NOT going to make it any easier for him to get closer to Hound Adams or to the truth about what really happened to his sister- it may even make things much more dangerous.TAPPING THE SOURCE was a group-buddy-read for me and four of my GRs gal pals...and it is also a prime example of how people who all get along so well can react so differently to a story- Two looooooooooooved it (one of them being me)- two pretty much hated it...and one couldn't finish. I was shocked...SHOCKED!! But I get it. We can't alllllllll love the same thing. I spent a lot of time while reading- wondering how this book drifted off people's radar over the years? Why isn't everyone reading it? But then I got my answer after comparing notes with my buddies. Ohhhhhhhhh because everyone isn't meeeeeeeeeeee and doesn't think like me. How sad is that? ;)
—Delee
First of all, I just want to say I have the world's greatest, loveliest goodreads friends. They are smart and classy ladies with great taste in books who respect differing opinions with grace. These gals loved this book and gave it five stars and glowing reviews. Those are the reviews you should probably be reading. This one is from a tired stay-at-home mama who has admittedly odd taste in literature. Anyway, here's my review:I didn't like this. I couldn't get myself to care about these characters and the surfing scenes went on and on and I'm just not that interested. I found I was zoning out a lot and had to keep going back in the narration and listening to it again. It started pretty strong for me, but as soon as Ike meets up with Preston, things just slowed way down. At least for me. But super DUPER props to this narrator, who was sooooo perfect for this type of thing. This was NOT a poorly written book. On the contrary. It was well written and not corny. A bit too much 'language' for my taste and I do hate,hate,hate the use of the 'N' word, it's just something that really bothers me A LOT. This is not historical fiction or anything, so I really can't see why Mr. Nunn felt like throwing that in there. But I digress. If this is your thing, you'd probably dig it. The writing was pretty solid. It just wasn't for me. But it seems to be for everyone else, so hey, Audible is super great about returns and it is a very summer-type of book, so go ahead: give it a go :)
—Lisa
