In the middle

Good evening, my dear readers! Enjoy my next entry while I enjoy my grapefruit-tea, some french salami, christmas cookies, lots of olives, a tangerine and some gummy bears. And no, I´m not greedy and I´m not pregnant (if you might wonder about the strange combination of my dinner). ^^
In fact it´s another person who is pregnant and that leads me straight back to "Slam".

How do your feelings change?

Well, my feelings have changed, that is clear. And they didn´t change in a good way. I mean, hello? First, you have Sam and Alicia, all is perfect, all is fine. Greatest love story ever, pink hearts everywhere, some sex here, some sex there, oh, I love you forever. And then? Suddenly Sam thinks, oh wait, pink hearts have gone, sex is getting boring, let´s break up. And it only becomes better. Alicia is pregnant and Sam has nothing better to do than to run away. What a disaster! I mean I was sure that something would happen that wouldn´t be good but this is not the way I expected it to be, and it is not the way, I like it.

Which questions would you like to direct at a particular character in the novel?

To Sam: Why did you run away? Why did you leave Alicia alone with her problems? You have a responibility now. I know it´s not easy but please stop to behave so coward.
To Alicia: Have you ever thought of doing abortion?

What are you confused about (events or characters)?

I was confused about Sam´s dream. At the beginning, I thought, what is that now? And in the end it wasn´t much better. I don´t understand why Sam thinks Tony Hawk sent him in the future to see what his life will be. I mean, it was just a dream. Talking to a person you admire or love who isn´t really there is quite normal but this is just manic.
I´m also confused about Alicia´s parents. I don´t see why they treat Sam like a person who is not very clever, just because he is not rich. I mean you cannot say, so much richer you are so much prudent are you. But if you think a litttle longer about it, you might guess that Alicia´s parents just fear that Alicia is not clever enough to get a good job and all that stuff and because of that they are acting like that.

How would you as author would have changed the book?

I would not have written that Alicia becomes pregnant. Just the idea of her and Sam as parents is weird, unthinkable. I would let have happen another accident or event to let Sam become adult.

To summarise all my thoughts: I think the style of writing is still great and some passages are quite funny, but I don´t like the story line anymore. I hope it will become better.
And now, to end this entry I´ve found a song on whose lyrics quite fit in my imagination of what Sam and other skaters might think if they are practising a new trick. Unfortunately I don´t understand how to put a video from Youtube on my computer.



Enjoy listening :)