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Slam - Nick Hornby
Slam
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780241953136 (0241953138)
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 293
Edition language: English
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moving under skies
moving under skies rated it
2.0 Slam
A wholly unremarkable (but also inoffensive) book about a teenage boy who ends up a premature father. Gratuitous time travel lowered my enjoyment enormously--it was poorly done and annoying and took up far too much of the book. The mothers were the most interesting characters--their interactions wit...
XOX
XOX rated it
3.5 Slam is about teenager pregnancy
Teenager pregnancy from the angle of a teenage dad with a mom who had him when she was 16. Why oh why? This is not boring. It is told from the view of the teenage skateboarder who talked to a poster of his idol instead of a real person. So, is it bad? Why didn't the girl get an abortion? Don...
The Fault in Our Blogs
The Fault in Our Blogs rated it
3.0 Slam
Alright. So this one's about a teen kid who gets his teen girlfriend pregnant. Spoiler alert: they decide to keep the baby. The main character was one moody, immature little bastard though. I was worried about the cliches in the protagonist's narrative for a while, but as I got into the book, his ch...
TCWriter
TCWriter rated it
3.0 Slam
This is Nick Hornby's first YA novel, and the result is something a little less edgy than his earlier books (About A Boy, High Fidelity, etc). Slam's protagonist is a 16 year-old skateboarder who gets a teenage girl pregnant, and as he struggles to deal with the fallout, he's mysteriously transporte...
EricaO
EricaO rated it
4.0 Slam
I like Nick Hornby's writing style so I think it would be difficult for me not to like one of his books. I found it amusing that as I started listening to this one, I was reminded strongly of the kid to played Marcus in the movie version of About a Boy. The narrator used strikingly similar vocal inf...
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