Opening chapters

First it seems, that Sam is a normal Teenager who lifes in his own little world. His world consits if skating, going to school and particulary of talking to Tony Hawk (rather at a poster of him). For me it´s strange reading that somone is comitting his Problems to a Poster and the poster answers him. Maybe there are some people who can indentify with him, but I actually can´t. He doesn´t talk much to his mum, perhaps, because he is a boy and boys anyway don´t talk much to their mums,but in this case sounds curious to me. Fact is, that his mother is only sixteen years older than him and he doesn´t like at all, that he could talk to her like to a sister or a good friend. I felt a little bit sad for that,´cause I think it´s in the most families like that, mainly, if there is only one child. I didn´t found any connection between the book and my life. I life in a other world. I have my hobbies too, but it´s not my elixir, I need my family, my friends, and someone alive to talk to. To be honest I´ve seen the trailer of the film`Slam` and I know, that Alicia is going to be pregnant. I think they´ll split up and if Alicia is a intelligent ( I think she is) girl she´s going to have an abortion, because being mother with sixteen is very early and she´ll be overextended. That´s neither good for her nor for the baby. I don´t really know what Hornby could write 350 pages about an abortion,but maybe he´ll write some more about Sam´s skating.

For twenty pages I dependet 45 minutes, I know thats very slow, although I am interestet in the book. But I also don´t read very fast in german, so it´s okay for me.