Book review of Slam.
Book review of Slam.
Slam is an interesting book about Sam and his Family. Sam is 16 years old, and he loves girls and skating. When he gets a bit older, he wants to go to collage to study art and design. His best friends are Rabbit and Rubbish. They both skates and share the passion of skateboarding with Sam. Sam loves skating so much that he has a poster of Tony Hawk, world’s best skater, on his wall. Sam talks to TH, as he calls him, about everything. Sam finds the answers of his questions in TH’s book witch he has read many, many times. Sam doesn’t even tell his mum those things he tells to TH. But TH can’t help him with every thing. When Alicia gets pregnant Sam can’t find any good answers from Tony Hawk’s book for what to do. Sam had to find his own answer, and he chose to run of to Hastings. That means he isn’t mature enough to have a baby. And Sam doesn’t even know if Alicia is pregnant or not when he runs of to Hastings. He just thinks so.
In Hastings he checks in to a hotel, and starts working for an old man. Sam had to help him up and down the stairs, help him turn on the TV and so on. After Sam has been in Hastings a few days, he realizes that he didn’t have many problems at home; compared to what problems he could get in Hastings. He earned 20 pounds a day. And he had to pay 20pounds a night for the hotel room. Then what money did he have to live for?
Sam and his mums’ relationship:
The relationship between Sam and his mum could have been better. Since there’s only 16 years between them, their relationship is a bit strange. They are more like friends then they are mum and son. That is also maybe a reason why Sam wants to talk to TH instead of her. Maybe Sam trusts TH more than her. When Sam starts to seeing Alicia his mum likes that he’s got a girlfriend, but she doesn’t like that he spend as much time at her place as he do. That might be a sign that she doesn’t trust him very much. But the spite this, it’s a pretty normal relationship between them. I don’t think Sam is the only teenager who has a relationship like this to his mum.
What do I think of the book?
I think the topic in the book is very important. The book wasn’t too hard to read but I think it happened the same thing many times in the book. And that makes it kind of boring. But I think all books are boring. Even though I mean the book is boring, I will recommend you to read it. The reason for that is the topic.