Fourth entry: after having read more than half the novel

Questions I would like to ask Nick Hornby:

• Have you friends which have born a child as they were so young as Sam and Alicia? Or why have you written a book about a young boy and his pregnant young (ex-) girlfriend?
• Are you skater? Or wherefrom you know such a lot of skater information?
• How long have you needed to write this book?
• What have you inspired to write this book? Was that providence?

A rough summary of the book so far:

The book “Slam” written by Nick Hornby is about a sixteen years old skater boy who’s called Sam. He’s an only child and goes to college. On a party where his mother was he met a pretty young girl, Alicia. He felt in love with her. But then a bad accident happened. Alicia got pregnant. Before they knew that they broke up. As she told him that she’s perhaps pregnant he dreamed in night about the future. In this dream he lived with Alicia and a little boy in Alicia’s house with their parents. Because this was such a big shock for Sam he run away from home to Hastings and tried to find work to earn money. But he only met a strange old man. So he returned at home. He met Alicia and they told their parents that she’s pregnant. Her parents were shocked, too. So they all went to Sam’s mom and told her about the pregnancy. Alicia decided to become mother. Sam and Alicia became a couple again. As almost the same time Sam’s mother told him that she’s pregnant, too. Alicia and Sam decided to live together with Alicia’s family when the baby is born. One night he had another dream about the future. He had a little sister called Emily. He lived in his own room again. Because Alicia was ill he had to look after his little two years old son, Roof.

Ideas which made me stop and think:

I think it’s strange to talk to a poster. It’s normal to have an idol and to know a book by heart. But it’s really curious to think a poster talks to you and sentences out of the book are advices the writer says to you.
It’s also strange to live with your girlfriend with their parents together with sixteen. I think that can’t go well.

Anything in Slam that I truly enjoy and that I even feel annoyed of:

I really enjoy that funny spelling style. Many situations are serious and not funny p.e. as they told Sam’s mother from the pregnancy but it’s so funny written that you have to laugh about it. That makes it so comfortably to read this book and so the book isn’t boring. But I really feel annoyed from Sam’s conversations with Tom Hawks’ poster. I think that’s so stupid to talk to a poster and think it says something to you and he does this so often that I feel annoyed of.