Yeah I think that’s what it is, that even though some of the stuff they go through is crazy, their reactions to it are very realistic. Painfully so. Oh yeah, Finnick dying was pretty sad, after him finally getting Annie, but yeah him dying and then Prim dying, I really wasn’t expecting that. Maybe her mom, but not Prim. Not since at the beginning her whole point was trying to protect Prim. I was surprised by Gale and Peeta still being alive too. At the beginning of the book though I was like OMG PEETA HAD BETTER STILL BE ALIVE AT THE END OF THIS BOOK. And yeah that’s true, if Gale and Peeta weren’t both alive, she might have glorified the other and never made a real choice? It seemed though that she was into Gale in the first book, felt guilty about playing stuff up with Peeta, then in the 2nd book things started to turn around, where she wasn’t sure. Then by the 3rd book she felt guilty doing things with Gale, because Peeta was who she wanted, even if she didn’t know it yet.
Lenny Kravitz was awesome as Cinna! I think why I liked his character so much was because he was the only Capital person who really seemed to “get it”. I cried when I read the part where Katniss is on stage in her wedding dress and it turned into a mockingjay. I was like OMG Cinna is going to die now!
And yeah, I was thinking of your saying how most people won’t think about the book on a deeper level when I was working at B&N the other night, ringing up a bunch of pre-teen brats who acted crappy to me while talking on their cell phones, who were buying copies of the Hunger Games series.
It was funny the other night when I went to see Of Montreal in DC, I went alone and I HATE driving in DC, and I, as usual, took some wrong turns and, as usual, started to hyperventilate (it’s really easy to get me freaked out driving in DC, b/c the roads make no sense to me) and I was like Nicole, if Katniss can make it through the Hunger Games, you can navigate the streets of DC. And I calmed down. :P I also think part of why the books resonated so much with me is because of the whole DIY movement nowadays. And how much I’ve grabbed onto that. And what’s more DIY than Katniss? Surviving no matter what on nuts, berries, knowing how to read Mother Nature to stay alive. It’s very inspiring and makes me more aware of how superficial a lot of the problems we have in this country are.
Now I’m the one that’s babbling. Anyway in sum, Hunger Games=Good stuff.
Do not worry about babbling on this. You made me think of it on a deeper level, about the overall commentary on war. I was thinking on an individual level, probably b/c I next read that book Trauma and Recovery and paying all that attention to post-traumatic stress. Ending the books so realistically will deglamorize but will people say "wow the aftermath of war really isn't shiny and fun, it is awful" or will they complain that the book didn't make everything go just how they wanted it to, (because in life things should always go only the way we want it to!!!!!)
Aw, you cried when Cinna made the dress? I just emailed you all about hunger games and this part, lol, but I was hoping they kept him alive. I kept waiting for him to pop up in Mockingjay. He was awesome for "getting it". It was odd to think that all those people in the capitol actually had the complete ignorance to congratulate her, but yeah real life sheltered capitol people would probably be that ridiculously clueless.. I find the ignorance of people to be believable. Cinna would have been in the minority.
I laughed about how you calmed yourself down driving in DC. :) I can never get from A to B in DC without going to Q first. Now that we have a GPS, I never go to DC without it. There hasn't been a single trip where the GPS didn't save my tush. It's GPS or Metro for me.
I keep reliving parts of the movie/book in my head. I guess I need to go read/watch it again. Do you remember when I told you about that guy who heard it was like Twilight? lmao yeah in the way the ocean is like a mud puddle!
Lenny Kravitz was awesome as Cinna! I think why I liked his character so much was because he was the only Capital person who really seemed to “get it”. I cried when I read the part where Katniss is on stage in her wedding dress and it turned into a mockingjay. I was like OMG Cinna is going to die now!
And yeah, I was thinking of your saying how most people won’t think about the book on a deeper level when I was working at B&N the other night, ringing up a bunch of pre-teen brats who acted crappy to me while talking on their cell phones, who were buying copies of the Hunger Games series.
It was funny the other night when I went to see Of Montreal in DC, I went alone and I HATE driving in DC, and I, as usual, took some wrong turns and, as usual, started to hyperventilate (it’s really easy to get me freaked out driving in DC, b/c the roads make no sense to me) and I was like Nicole, if Katniss can make it through the Hunger Games, you can navigate the streets of DC. And I calmed down. :P I also think part of why the books resonated so much with me is because of the whole DIY movement nowadays. And how much I’ve grabbed onto that. And what’s more DIY than Katniss? Surviving no matter what on nuts, berries, knowing how to read Mother Nature to stay alive. It’s very inspiring and makes me more aware of how superficial a lot of the problems we have in this country are.
Now I’m the one that’s babbling. Anyway in sum, Hunger Games=Good stuff.
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Aw, you cried when Cinna made the dress? I just emailed you all about hunger games and this part, lol, but I was hoping they kept him alive. I kept waiting for him to pop up in Mockingjay. He was awesome for "getting it". It was odd to think that all those people in the capitol actually had the complete ignorance to congratulate her, but yeah real life sheltered capitol people would probably be that ridiculously clueless.. I find the ignorance of people to be believable. Cinna would have been in the minority.
I laughed about how you calmed yourself down driving in DC. :) I can never get from A to B in DC without going to Q first. Now that we have a GPS, I never go to DC without it. There hasn't been a single trip where the GPS didn't save my tush. It's GPS or Metro for me.
I keep reliving parts of the movie/book in my head. I guess I need to go read/watch it again. Do you remember when I told you about that guy who heard it was like Twilight? lmao yeah in the way the ocean is like a mud puddle!
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