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Kem Nunn

Author of Tapping the Source

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Works by Kem Nunn

Tapping the Source (1984) 251 copies
The Dogs of Winter (1997) 148 copies
Tijuana Straits (2004) 144 copies
Chance (2014) 123 copies
Pomona Queen (1992) 80 copies
Unassigned Territory (1987) 59 copies

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The Penguin Book of the Ocean (2010) — Contributor — 20 copies

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Birthdate
1948
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
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I loved this book. Krueger gets inside the head of young people and is able to tell a story from their perspectives.
 
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DrApple | 8 other reviews | Aug 11, 2023 |
The Hulu show was much easier to digest.
 
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ByronDB | 11 other reviews | May 17, 2022 |
Not terrible, not stupendous.

Nunn gives us some interesting characters, but I found that he made some curious choices toward the final third of the novel (taking some off the board, changing some, almost abandoning others).

I understand this is supposed to be a slow boiler, and on that level, it mostly worked, but the end left some raggedly gaping holes that I wasn't happy with.

So, okay. Not terrible, not stupendous.
 
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TobinElliott | 11 other reviews | Sep 3, 2021 |
Not a horrible novel by any stretch of the imagination, but not a great one either.

I'll be the first to reveal I know nothing about biker culture, surf culture, or drug culture, other than what I've read in books or seen on TV—in other words, likely highly stylized and sensationalized.

That being said, the author allowed easy access into all three of those worlds with a clean, sharp, well-observed writing style.

That being said, there's not a single likable character in this book, which is okay if the author can make them spellbinding enough to never want to look away. Nunn's characters are interesting, and they have depth, but my god, they do go on. If I had to get through one more of Hound's philosophical "brah" monologues, I may have set the book down.

But the thing that ruined it for me, to be quite honest, was the big event toward the end. You'll know it when you read it. It just struck me, after a very set-firmly-in-reality tone throughout, to take a turn into a fantastical Hollywood blockbuster sequence toward the end that really was unnecessary.

Overall, glad I read it, but I don't think I'll come back to Nunn's books anytime soon.
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