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Nick Hornby
Slam
Title: Slam
Author: Nick Hornby
Format: Hardcover
Language: German
Pages: 301
Publisher: , 0
ISBN: 3462039652
Format: PDF / Kindle / ePub
Size: 9.2 MB
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Description
Sam ist 15 und sein Leben gerade ziemlich in Ordnung: Er hat ein paar neue Skateboardtricks
gelernt, seine Mutter endlich ihren blöden Freund rausgeschmissen … und dann gibt es da
natürlich noch Alicia. Die ist der absolute Hammer und genauso in Sam verliebt wie er in sie.
Doch auf einmal kommt alles anders als geplant: Alicia wird schwanger – und Sam müsste
eigentlich im Eilverfahren erwachsen werden …
Insightful reviews
Naomi V: This is one of the reasons that Nick Hornby is one of my favorite authors. Not just
because he's a life-time Arsenal fan. Because he can write a young-adult book that is as riveting
as any of the 'adult' fiction (and non-fiction) that he writes.
Sam seems to be a pretty typical boy, except that he's being raised by his very young single
mom, who had him when she was just 16. He wants to skate all the time, he's interested in girls,
but not sure what to do about it. He wants to be the first in his family to go to college. Everything
in his life changes when he meet Alicia, tho.
Nick Hornby makes Sam a very compelling character. Sam is charming, and tells his story in a
refreshingly honest way, admitting when he's being particularly thick. He also gets 'whizzed' into
the future a couple times and gets a glimpse of what to expect.
I would think that this book would be appropriate for readers of Sam's age at the beginning of
the book (15.) It's a bit of a cautionary tale, and told in a way that is not preachy and also
entertaining.
Sandra: Dei libri di Hornby letti finora questo è quello che mi è piaciuto di più.
Si legge in un soffio e, per chi è stato sedicenne tanti anni fa come me ma è a contatto con
sedicenni tutti i giorni, fa sorridere ma fa anche riflettere sull'adolescenza e i suoi problemi, sulla
vita, le sue pieghe e le sue curve.
Sam, il protagonista, è un sedicenne timido e silenzioso, che vive un'età in cui "non si è nè
carne nè pesce", alle prese con due genitori più immaturi di lui, che l'hanno avuto a 16 anni,
l'età fatidica, quella in cui lui incontra una ragazza, Alicia, di cui sembra innamorarsi. E la storia
si ripete..., "gli errori dei genitori ricadono sui figli". Ma il messaggio che Hornby ci trasmette non
è pessimista, al contrario.
E' un libro giovane, fresco e godibile.
Abby: Wow, this book was ATROCIOUS. It's like Nick Hornby sat down and thought of all the
worst cliches about teen books and then decided he could write a teen novel. The main
character is a teenage skater who's so obsessed with Tony Hawk that he dialogues with the
Tony Hawk poster above his bed on a nightly basis. He asks the poster questions about life,
and the poster responds with parts of Tony Hawk's autobiography that the kid has memorized
from reading so many times. I didn't buy it -- c'mon, Tony HawK? He was cool when I was a
teen. Now he's all washed up. I heard from another librarian that the reason why Hornby used
Hawk was because he once saw a "READ" poster featuring Tony Hawk who was holding one of
Nick Hornby's books.
Also, later in the book, the Tony Hawk poster supposedly sends the main character into the
future a couple times -- but only a few months or so into the future and the experience doesn't
change the character at all. It's thrown in there for absolutely NO good reason.
It was truly terrible, and if I wasn't a teen librarian, I would not have finished it. All the teens I
know who have read it also hated it, but apparently the critics have been giving it good reviews.
Matthew: during this Novel set within the present, Sam is a 16-year-old British skateboarder had
a lifestyles that was once beginning to end up good for him. His mom dumped her poor
boyfriend, and he had a beautiful female friend named Alicia, yet such a lot of all, a poster
Sam's favourite skater, Tony hawk (nickname TH) had conversations and gave him nice
suggestion day-by-day . After he impregnates Alicia, TH made Sam have a dream that whizzed
him into the longer term exhibiting Sam how issues might ultimately end up together with his
new son and Sam's mom pregnant together with her new child as well. After the newborn is
born, Sam's existence simply bought worse so he and Alicia get a divorce for good. the tale
flashed ahead years to Sam with a brand new girlfriend. He runs into Alicia being the first
caretaker of the baby, yet Sam comes to a decision to have a pleasant courting with Alicia as a
result of his son's sake. Nick Hornby depicts the struggles of the twenty first century teenager
being pregnant and the way it affects lives everywhere. Male readers of age will locate the
booklet attention-grabbing as a result of how the writer makes a connection to day-by-day life.
In his variety of writing, Nick Hornby has extreme descriptions of Sam's lifestyles with a child,
and the way his existence steadily will get worse. The e-book was once sad, yet an outstanding
learn overall.
Debbie Davies: i discovered it tough to be sympathetic to the characters during this novel. no
matter if it used to be the writing type or the truth that i could not relate to households who
looked to be so wrapped up in themselves they had no time to be a true relatives or to develop
in any type of a positive, lesson realized way. it may possibly have a very good message for top
college youngsters concerning the demanding situations of minor being pregnant and parenting,
yet it's not that i am definite that youth would not examine real looking all's good that ends good
in accordance with the realization of Slam. Sorry, this novel simply wasn't my "cup of tea".
Eduardo: 'Todo por una chica' tiene en su desventaja l. a. mala traducción del título unique
("SLAM"), tal vez eso y el diseño de cubierta que tiene los angeles edición de Anagrama (en
serio, l. a. chica de los angeles portada no tiene NADA (salvo el género) en común con Alicia,
personaje femenino más importante de los angeles novela).Nick Hornby trata una vez más (no
por eso quiere decir que canse o que sea el tema principal) los angeles madurez en un
hombre, solo que en esta historia se concentra en Sam, un chico de 15 años que ama el skate
y cuyo ídolo es Tony Hawk. El "problema" empieza cuando conoce a Alicia y con l. a.
inexperiencia en l. a. vida (en especial el sexo) le traerá consecuencias que tendrá que asumir
a pesar de su edad.El tono en que escribe Nick Hornby es parecido al de 'Alta Fidelidad'
también escrita por él, y con el mismo lenguaje y tono que permite que se lea fácilmente. Otro
de los puntos que considero es el eje significant de l. a. historia es los angeles de el futuro.
Aquel que no podemos controlar, solamente vivir y que como deja en claro Nick (a través de su
protagonista) Comprendí que había dos futuros. Uno, al que llegaba cuando me proyectaban
hacia adelante. Y el otro el de verdad, el que tienes que esperar para ver, el que no puedes
visitar, aquel al que sólo podrás llegar viviendo todos los días que hay en medio...
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