Before I started reading...

now I am ready with reading and I missed to write my opinion before reading, but that doesn't actually matter because fortunately I still remember very well my thoughts and expectations when we got this book, when I first read the blurb of "Slam" and when I started reading. So I'm now going to write these things down...

When we got this book in a English lesson, few weeks ago, I first thought that this novel is going to be in a modern manner, more then I thought before. I guess the reason for this opinion chang was just the cover of the book, that seemed to be very interesting and attractivel. In my opinion all books we had to read for school looked somehow similar. What I mean is, if you see the cover of a book someone is just reading (maybe in a train or a bus), then you mostly know if this person has to read this book for school or if it was just his own decision to read this book. So what I want to say is that "Slam" doesn't look like a novel you have to read for school, does he? (Unfortunately there are lots of books you read in school just because you have to. You know, without having fun and when you're finished with reading you are relieved and put it away and never really think about the point the author tried to express. Because of this sad fact teachers should more often ask their pupils about their favourite books or they maybe should give them a list of books, so the pupils can make enquiries and elect their favourite one. But that just by the way...)

There were two sentence, too, that made me change my expectation of a dull and maybe even boring novel. It were the first sentences of the blurb. ("There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.") When I read these sentences, I guess they spark my interest because on the one hand you maybe think that they are telling you some important facts of the story the book is about but I think on the other hand they don't really tell you anything, do they? I mean, they don't give you some subjects or something like that to better imagine the act of the story. Every reader can interpret it in his own way. Because of that these sentences are of course very suitable for a blurb because they don't tell you to much and besides they make you thinking of their meaning in a skilful way.