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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I ended up reading Slam simply because I had a copy lying around that a neighbour had tossed away, and I was only half-way through when I learned that Slam is a Young Adult novel. Perhaps that says a good amount about me, needing to be told the genre of this book, or any mainstream book, but whateve...
When fifteen-year-old Sam gets his girlfriend pregnant, he is whizzed into the future by his idol, professional skateboarder, Tony Hawk. What Sam learns determines how he deals with his status of a new father.As a long-time Nick Hornby fan, I was disappointed in this book. Although the characters ...
I thought this book was OK, but slightly off. I could deal with the fact that he talked to Tony Hawk, because I can kind of see that happening to a teenager. And the plot isn't difficult to follow or anything. But the part where he jumps into the future and jumps back? That threw me off. Especially ...
Meh. Not my favorite Hornby book by a long shot. I did like Sam and how the story was told from his point of view. It gave the story a different perspective. However, the whole futuristic idea that went throughout the story was kind of odd and didn't really seem credible. I will always be a Hor...
I'm a big fan of Nick Hornby. His recent book, Juliet, Naked was fabulous. Slam, is Hornby's first young adult book and although it was funny and enjoyable, it wasn't as brilliant as some of his other titles. The main plot of this story is about Sam, a 16 year old boy who accidentally gets his girlf...
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