April 17, 1957: Nick Hornby is born.

In his honor, I shall point you back to my post about his only* YA book: Slam.

Which I hated:

But it's just not happening. Sam—and the rest of the people in the book—they're not people. They're just characters.  I don't believe in them**. Therefore, I don't care about them. Therefore, the book isn't holding my interest whatsoever, and, I'm finding it, in a word, boring.

I feel a little guilty highlighting it, since it's his birthday and all.

So I shall also mention that I loved High Fidelity and About a Boy: the books AS WELL AS the movie adaptations, both of which significantly deviated from the source material, but both of which were super in their own right.

Question the first: Should I go back and give Slam another chance? 

Question the second: Which, if any, YA titles have given you that Hornby vibe?

______________________

*Unless he wrote another one and I missed it?