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Freshers
by: Kevin Sampson

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780099428367
ISBN: 0099428369
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: September 02, 2004
Publisher: Vintage
Studio: Vintage
Sales Rank: 298172

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- Freshers Fortnight
After covering football hooligans (Awaydays), pop music (Powder), package tours (Leisure) and Liverpool criminals (Outlaws and Clubland) in previous books, Sampson turns his attention to the terrifying time of life known in the UK as "Freshers Fortnight." In the US, this is called "First Year Orientation"-but whatever the name, it's a time of mighty highs and lows as hordes of teenagers leave home for their first year of college. The novel does a nice job of portraying the haphazard struggle to make friendships, forge identities, and survive homesickness that characterizes those first few months.

Set in Sheffield, the story is told through Kit Hannah, a cooler-than thou indie music maven who, behind a thin veil of cynicism and misanthropy, ... Read More:

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- Converted to Sampson
Fearing he made be a writer strictly for the lads i was very pleased with 'Freshers'. Exhilirating, fresh and achingly relevant to student life, you'll feel like you're living the crazy experiences of the narrator, Kit Hannah.

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- FRESHERS
I liked the sound of this book so I gave it a go. I read it in 5 hours and it's 250 pages long.

Kit Hannah is someone we can all relate to or maybe we can all inspire to be like. He is smart, funny and good looking but he still has many floors and he was someone I admired yet sympathised with.

It's a tale of a troubled youth who seemed OK on the outside but was definatley not. It is something that everyone is like to an extent! He fell for a girl who he thought he had no chance but knew that he did if you can understand what I mean. Adrian Dangerous was an addictive charachter yet I did like him and I was longing to get to know Jinty more.

Read it, you won't regret it.

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- A great great read!
I am not really a great reader of contemporary fiction but every so often I fancy something a bit different...
With it coming up to the start of the semester and with me no longer being a student, I was feeling a reflective on my time at University and came across this book.
At first I did not take to it (mainly due to the seemingly unlike able lead character)... but after a couple of "chapters" it started flowing nicely.
I did bring back a lot of memories about how I felt during my first year at University and I also recognised a lot of character types and situations that the lead Kit Hannah goes through.
As I said a great book... might not have the same effect for people who never experienced Uni but never the less a well ... Read More:

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- A good insight into a probably typical student
I liked the sound of this one and wanted to give it a go, and i'm glad i did. I'm not a student myself and to be totally honest i find a lot of students very annoying, but not Kit, the main character. He is a 17 year old leaving home for the first time to go to a Uni in Sheffield, after much support from his dear old mum! The book follows his progress and everything else that goes with student life, and yes, there is lots of drinking involved! Kit has one particular "issue" which hounds him throughout, and i'm sure which is common to lots of new found students.

Overall i did like this, one little gripe is the character "Alex", a typical example of the type of student i was voicing my annoyance at earlier - someone who has to turn just about everything ... Read More:

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