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Narrator Nicholas Hoult is best known as Marcus in the film version of author Nick HornbyÕs ABOUT A BOY. Now he narrates HornbyÕs latest novel while still a teenager himself--not surprisingly, he nails the tone of a Londoner whose life goes unexpectedly off the rails. Sam is obsessed with skateboarding and Tony Hawk, the worldÕs greatest skater. Life is going well--his teachers are recommending art college, and he has a beautiful girlfriend. In skating, a slam is a hard fall; in SamÕs life, the slam is unexpected fatherhood. Sam becomes a father at 16--the same age his mother had him. Hoult makes Sam an entirely believable teenager--his dialogue is slouchy, like a teenagerÕs, and his light tone maintains HornbyÕs humor. A.B. 2008 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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*Starred Review* For Hornby, author of About a Boy (1988) and High Fidelity (1995), the move from adult to young-adult fiction represents more of a natural progression than a change in course. So it should come as no surprise that he has written an accomplished teen novel featuring a character whose voice hits its groove at the downbeat and sustains it through the final chord. Sam is a disarmingly ordinary 15-year-old kid who loves to skate (that's skateboarding, to you and me). But then he is blindsided: his girlfriend gets pregnant, and he lands in the middle of his mum's nightmare (she had Sam when she was 16). This may sound like an old-fashioned realistic YA problem novel, but it's a whole lot more. Sam, you see, has a sort-of-imaginary friend: the world's greatest skater, Tony Hawk, whose poster Sam talks to when he has problems. And the poster talks back, maybe, or maybe Sam is just reciting quotes from Tony's autobiography. And is it really Tony who is "whizzing" Sam into the future for glimpses of what is to come? With or without Tony's help, Sam gives us the facts about his very eventful couple of years, but as he reminds us, "there comes a point where the facts don't matter anymore . . . because you don't know what anything felt like." Which is where Hornby comes in. We know exactly how Sam feels—even when he feels differently from the beginning of a sentence to the end—and it feels just right: a vertiginous mix of anger, confusion, insight, humor, and love. Ott, Bill --Ce texte provient de la Hardcover édition.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Nicely done, Aoû 29 2009
Par NorthVan Dave (North Vancouver, British Columbia Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Slam (Paperback)
Slam is Nick Hornby's most recent book. And although the target audience is youth (or at least it is it the Youth Fiction section of my local library) I enjoyed this book. Nick Hornby writes about a sensitive subject with humour and a realistic approach. In typical Nick Hornby fashion, he does this by talking about things people can relate to. Like music by Green Day. Or Tony Hawk. Or skateboarding. And of course he manages to do so without coming across all preachy.

The protagonist in the story is Sam. A 15 year old who like skating, listening to music, and hanging out with his friends. Along the way Sam gets a girlfriend and he ends up getting her pregnant. From there the story progresses as Sam learns to cope with the idea/notion of being a Dad a 16. However not only does Sam need to concern himself with being a Dad, but so does his mother and his girlfriend's parents.

In summary, Nick Hornby does a good job of talking about what goes through one's mind and how, at the age of 15/16, someone would deal with it. I think this book should be recommended reading in all schools. Nicely done.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Funny, touching, tragic, magical, Oct. 22 2008
Par Steve Z. McCauley "szm" (Montreal, QC) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Slam (Paperback)
This novel was a pleasant departure from Horby's usual genre, but one in which he is particularly adept, that of the man-boy stuck in adolescence. In SLAM we find Sam, a 15 year old adolescent skateboarder who finds himself confronting the prospect of fatherhood sooner than he would have hoped.

The genius in this story though, in my opinion, was the hagiographic portrayal of professional skateboarder Tony Hawk (TH) and his autobiography, as messiah and bible respectively. The short life histories being related by TH to Sam through the autobiography formed the equivalent of new testament parables to Sam through which he would seek meaning, in the same way that Christians seek guidance through their interpretation of scripture. The altar for his religion, skating, was a poster of TH in his bedroom to which he would seek guidance from his messiah. The magical aspects of the story, the result of intervention by TH, transported him into a future he knew nothing about, on the first visit at least.

Sam's reaction to this future was dealt with deftly by the author, and resulted in some remarkably touching scenes, some sad, some hilarious, some tragic. If you like Nick Hornby, you will enjoy this story. In my opinion, one of his best.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Courtesy of Teens Read Too, Aoû 17 2008
This review is from: Slam (Hardcover)
Sam figures that his life is going pretty well. He's doing all right in school, he gets along with his mom, he has a great girlfriend, and is getting good at skateboarding. He has aspirations of attending college, unlike his mom, who had to drop out of school when she became pregnant with him.

But all of his dreams come crashing down when his girlfriend, Alicia, tells him that she's pregnant. And she has no intention of getting rid of the baby.

Sam spooks. He goes into denial. When that doesn't work, he tries running away, physically and emotionally. And then, an unexplainable thing happens...while he dreams at night, he gets whizzed into the future and is shown an unexpected life that will force him to face the facts and take responsibility for his actions.

SLAM is a frank, vivid, and highly realistic take on teenage pregnancy from a point of view that is completely different from what many are accustomed to. Hornby doesn't waste time by working in lectures of the consequences of premarital sex, but instead gives us Sam, who is a little selfish, very scared, a bit ashamed, but ultimately a strong character who, through many trials and despite his own feelings, manages to pull himself together and attempt to be the best dad he can be -- and is surprisingly good at it.

The more unbelievable element of the story, Sam's visits to the future, gives the story just the right dash of unique appeal without seeming too implausible. Hornby does more than just give us an intriguing account of teen parenthood; he reveals each emotion, thought, and feeling with startling clarity and humor, until you understand and empathize with Sam. SLAM is a fascinating, compelling, and even poignant read that won't soon be forgotten.

Reviewed by: The Compulsive Reader
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