So I read the new Stephen King

[cleolinda]

...because the two or three weeks after Christmas are my traditional Book Wallow. And I really like Stephen King's short stories, which tend to be more high-concept and less tangential than his novels. That is to say, you get a handful of really interesting ideas, rather than one idea that goes on for three hundred pages longer than it should. Full

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[leia1912]

Just a head's up: The Hunger Games also features teams. Where there is the Next Big Thing, there's a Team, I think. (Cap instead of lowercase because the idol-worship demands a cap.)

[cleolinda]

Yeah, I actually know how the Team thing ends up on that one. It's the one I guessed, too.

[sour_idealist]

The Teams aren't really the point, though. Or at least, that certainly isn't how I read it.

[renaissanced]

They shouldn't be the point but that seems to be what fandom focuses on. :\

[felisdemens]

"1922", or as I retitled it, "The Tell-Tale Rats".

[ktbass]

I was kind of disappointed in Matched. Delirium, which is coming out in February, was along the same plot lines and I liked it a lot more. I don't know yet about Matched being the next big thing - I liked it well enough, but it hasn't generated the buzz I'd have expected for the exposure it got whereas I kind of think Delirium's trilogy might be the next big thing. As far as Hunger Games comparisons go, aside from them both being dystopian, I dunno. I think the Chaos Walking trilogy is much more Hunger Games like, and I actually kind of liked them more.

[ktbass]

I got an ARC of Delirium, and the best freaking thing about it was that there was no love triangle. It was really nice to see, though there are two more books so I suppose there's still time. I just wanted to love Matched, and loved the PREMISE of Matched, but I wanted something to happen. I don't know.

[penmage]

I haven't read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but I have read Matched, and found it utterly underwhelming.

[tezmilleroz]

which sets off my Sparkle Motion sensors

Coincidentally (or not), Ally Condie and Stephenie Meyer share the same agent.

[cleolinda]

AH JESUS

[beth_shulman]

Heh. Although if Condie is a good writer, that isn't so bad, because frankly there is no evidence of an editor in the Twilight books.

[r_a_black]

Nah, there were sentences in that book that made me burst out laughing they were just so strange. She tries really damn hard to make her protagonist come off as ~thought-provoking~ and to make her sound ~enlightened~ but it's all so contrived that you can't really do anything but laugh.