Too Much.

I'm in the midst of reading this frivolous, comical yet touching novel called Slam by Nick Hornby. Just saying now, basically what this book is about is; sex, skateboarding and family. Anyway, it's about a blasé, adolescent boy named Sam. He likes to talk to his Tony Hawk poster in his room everyday, and Tony actually responds back to him! The characters in the book are really his two, divorced parents, Andrea and I forgot his Dad's name, Alicia and well that's it... for now. Alicia is his girlfriend. And this girl, I swear is a nymphomaniac. She is obsessed with sex! You know, a lot of people would feel weird about writing about sex on a school blog, I mean I am kind of but this is one of the most important topics & problems in the book.Grr, the way she acts bothers me so much, like she's a girl, she's not the boy who's supposed to be preoccupied with that kind of stuff. Whatever. I'm not really deep into the book, like 60 pages? So I can't say much. But I do expect things to happen.

In the story, Sam's mother is a young woman, "she’s only three years older than David Beckham, and four years younger than Jenifer Aniston," he likes to say. I think in the book, if not already, Sam's mother, Andrea becomes an important figure. Sam and his relationship with Andrea isn't all that great especially because of the divorce with his father. And also, because she had Sam at 16. That fact is really important to Sam, it seems because he keeps bringing it up, he always mentions that he was a "mistake". The part i'm up to right now is mostly about how Andrea feels about sex. She asked him if him and Alicia were sexually active and he was too uncomfortable to answer especially because of his Mom's "mistake". I wonder why his Mom cares so much? Like it was her mistake, and he could do whatever he wants. Maybe she's looking out for Alicia, what do you think? And they are sexually active too, just because Alicia's crazy, sex-driven chick. (Seriously, she wanted to have sex on the 2nd date... weirdo.) I predict that something really bad's going to happen to them, as a couple. Either they break up or i'm just so sure Alicia gets pregnant, or even both! I mean it would be predictable now, for girls to pregnant. But there's just something, i'm just more lenient toward the break up, because he did mention that they might so yeah. This book's kind of a lot to take in.

Basically, this is a very interesting story and everything that happens is just a page turner! I hope I actually get to finish (probably will). I recommend this to anyone, more to boys cause I think it'd be more relatable but if you're a girl or just any teen that wants to read this, then they should cause it's about adolescence. Oh and also, since the author, Nick Hornby is British (research) it has some British words like "bloody hell", etc... so if you like those kinds of books, definitely give this a try!

Even though it sounds too focused on one topic, I think it will show an important lesson in the end, I just don't know what. Mystery, mystery...

I hope you find this post as funny as I did when I was typing it! :D

If you want a better summary/overview, you should read the review from The New York Times here.

*Black, underlined words are for the Writing Challenge.  

Yours truly, 

Zarrin S Class 813. [: