First of all I have to confess that my working method is a real shame! If I have some homework or some other things to do that seem to be difficult for me then I delay this kind of work until the time is nearly over. That really annoys me but unfortunatly I can’t mostly force me to do it. And that’s the way how it proceeds with “Slam”, too.

Today I’m unfortunately not ready with reading the book yet. I regret this very much, not only because tomorrow is the original day when we should have finished the reading but also because my first reservation that I could have problems with understanding of the happening in the text evaporated when I begun to read.

Now I’ ve to say that this novel really surprised me because in my opinion it’s much more interesting than lots of books we had to read for school until now. It’s not only the way Nick Hornby is discribing the feelings and fears of the young boy, to my mind it’s the whole subject that’s very interesting and even very topical. I think the fact that Sam is just in the process of reaching adulthood makes it extreme difficult for the author to tell the story comprehensible for the reader. But in a very touching way Hornby succeeds in expressing Sam’s thoughts. That’s really laudable and remarkable, I think. But now for something different…