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Hello again together, today (you won´t believe) exceptionally without anything to eat instead with a new CD with Caribbean music I got from my family living there. Let´s go!

What questions would you like to ask Nick Hornby?

Do you have any reason to write about pregnancy of teenagers?
Can you identify with any of the character in the book?
If yes, with which one?
Can you skate?

Summary of the events in the book:

The book is about a boy named Sam, fifteen years old, and a passioned skater. Sam meets a girl, Alicia, and they become a couple. After a while, they have sex without contraception and Alicia conceives. Now Sam has to confront the problems of growing up and of a fatherhood in the same time. First he runs away from them because he is afraid of all, but when he faces them (sometimes with the help of Tony Hawk, who is talking to him and sometimes whizzing him into the future) all ends up fine - or, as fine as a story can turn out when you get a child with sixteen years.

Which idea in the book made you stop and think, what was new and exciting to you?

It was interesting to read a book about an unmeant pregnancy from the view of the father. Normally it´s just the other way around, and the father isn´t mentioned because he bunks or something like that. In this book you can see that it´s not just uneasy for the girl, but also for the boy.
It was also amazing to find out that skaters are not all brainsick (I never could make a sense of it cruising on a board and talking about strange tricks). I still can´t but at least I understand it a little bit more.

Is there anything in "Slam" you truly enjoy or that even feel annoyed of?

I really love the style of writing, but I mentioned that already. :)
I also liked the charakter Sam. Yeah, I know, he is a little bit crazy but I understand him and (you will think I´m manic) I can identify with him - at least under some aspects.
I didn´t like the parts with the whizzing into the future. It was confusing and it didn´t fit in the rest of the story line.


Yeah, finished with English for today. :)
And now, it´s time to do the German homework ... :(
See you all tomorrow!