Review (fav quotes, annoying things,...)

Hey guys,

actually this is my really LAST POST. I'm through with reading the book, I already worked on the last task and now it's the end of my reading log.

I thought about ending this blog with my favourite quotes of SLAM and two optional tasks. One task we were given on the 8th of June and it's about presenting you situations/things I really enjoyed in SLAM or something that annoyed me. The second one is the latest optional task - it's about finding five adjectives which describe the novel.

I'm gonna start with my favourite quotes:

p.15, ll.4-6 - because I can identify with this :)

"Who doesn't talk to someone in their heads? Who doesn't talk to God, or a pet, or someone they love who has died, or maybe just to themselves?"

p.25, ll.10f - because it's a really nice way to show how much you love someone:

"And when she laughed, I could feel some part of me flip over."

p.183, ll.12-15 - just because it's SO TRUE:

"It's just that there comes a point where the facts don't matter any more, and even though you know everything, you know nothing, because you don't know what anything felt like."

Something that annoyed me:

Like I already told you in some posts before, I don't like the whole wizzing-thing. Overall I don't really like Tony Hawk's part in the story. On the one hand it's really weird that Sam talks to a poster of his idol, but on the other hand I can also relate to him a bit. Probably everybody has something or someone to talk to and to talk about worries and everything. And I don't mean a living person. I accept that Sam does this. What I can't understand and what I feel annoyed of is, that Tony Hawk has such a big impact on Sam's life. Often Sam says that if Tony Hawk is frustrated, he wizzes Sam into the future. How can a poster be frustrated? How can a surreal person have such an impact on a living person?? Am I the only one who feels like this? Or are there other people out there who feel annoyed or confused by this aswell?

Because I don't want people to think that I don't like the book or that I only think negative about it, here is something I really enjoyed:

Teenage pregnancies are a difficult topic. If I think about it there comes this situation up to my mind where there's a teenage mum with its little child. The father's not living with them and barely cares for his child. What I like about SLAM is that Sam developes during the story. At first he runs away to Hastings, because he's scared of the whole situation. At the end he's shocked about reading that he might loses touch with his son. You can really see that he cares about his little boy and that he definitly wants to stay in touch with him! I'm glad that Sam developed like this - I really enjoyed reading this!

Five adjectives to describe the novel and the last weeks working with it:

Interesting, entertaining, amusing, strange, informative

That's it! :)

THANK YOU everyone for reading my posts! I really enjoyed putting everything down here and I'm convinced that I'll miss it someway!

Have a nice day!

Maike