Interview with Nick Hornby

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After reading the first two chapters, I feel a little bit confused. Sam an Alicia met at a party and in the first moment they don´t speak to each other. At first Sam doesn´t really like Alicia, because she seems to be arrogant and she knows, that she is gorgeous. Alicia also isn´t really interested in Sam. She isn´t interested in a conversation with him, because she doesn´t like the parties of her parents. But suddenly they like themselves, only because Sam tells Alicia his opinion about her, that he finds her arrogant. I find it very brave and good of him to say this to an arrogant person, but I wonder why he likes that arrogant person nevertheless. After that, the conversation changes rather quickly to the arrangement of the first date. Suddenly they talk about sex, although they know each other only for about two hours. After that Sam´s thoughts are only about sex with Alicia. That´s a little bit strange, isn´t it? :)
Yes, that´s my opinion to the first two chapters :) and I don´t have any connections between the book and my life. I can´t find them.
My predictions about possible future developments could be, that the friendship of Alicia and Sam is nearly over, because they don´t know each other good enough, maybe for Sam it runs too fast. Maybe Sam has not enough time for skating, because of the relationship to Alicia, then his friends would be angry. It also can be the opposite, that Sam has no time for Alicia, because of the skating and then Alicia would be angry. So Sam would be in a dilemma.

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I enjoy to read this book, because the story seems to be very exciting, funny and lovely. Also the book is very easy to read. :) My exspectations are for example: what kind of accident happens with Sam? Can he continue skating and what kind of consequences has it for Sam now? Can he still be thinking about the college or is it impossible? One more exspectation is: what´s about Alicia after the accident? Is she staying with him or will she leave Sam?

Other books we have read in English were only reclam-books for example " of mice and men" by John Steinbeck