Book Review: Slam

i finished reading the book slam by nick hornby ... the reason i bought this book is because i read a book by the same author before and thought it was brilliant ... a book by the name of high fidelity ... but this book ... not so brilliant ... i mean it's good and all but let's put it this way ... if i had read slam first i probably wouldn't have been so tempted to read something else by hornby ... so yeah this book is told by a teenage boy named sam ... the story is set in england by the way ... so sam likes to skate ... and he likes girls ... typical teenage boy ... something not so typical about him is that his parents had him when they were teenagers ... he sees his dad from time to time but he's not exactly fond of him ... instead he lives with his mother whose biggest fear is that one day sam will make the same mistake she did with his dad ... so one day his mother tells him to come along with her to a party ... because her friend has a hot daughter she'd like to set him up with ... the hot daughter is called alicia ... sam reluctantly comes along but doesn't regret it ... alicia is indeed hot and the two hit it off and soon become inseparable ... until one day alicia finds out she's pregnant ... dramatic music ... so now sam finds himself in the same situation his parents were in when they had him ... and that's really all you need to know ... oh yeah and sam is in love with tony hawk ... that's a famous skater for those who don't know ... he has a poster of him that he talks to when he's troubled ... that might seem like a trivial piece of information but it actually isn't ... so anyway if it sounds interesting to you check it out ... it's a decent book ... but if you haven't read high fidelity i suggest you start with that ...

for my next book i'll be reading the art of war ... some non-fiction for a change ...