Maybe? It's hard to tell what people will and won't like. I think you might like the protagonist; she's a bit like Sid Halley in that she can come off as a bit cold and unemotional, but she isn't really.
Basically they're a future Roman-slash-reality-TV-inspired dystopia in which the people are forced to send kids in as tributes in a gladiator-type game to the death. The books aren't perfect in any way, but they have a lot of pretty good points about how life and death matters are played out in the media. Also, several awesome characters.
This is one universe where I think it wouldn't hurt to see the film first, just to check if the concept is interesting to you at all. Then again, a whole bunch of people seem to have liked the books without liking the film. (And the third book, which is my favourite, has a lot of people hating it. So people seem to be reading/viewing with different mindsets.)
Hm, I probably will look up either/or, it does sound interesting.
Are you still watching Covert Affairs, btw? I have problems following that show because Chris Gorham and the female head of the department aside, I don't really like it, mainly due to the tone or the plots they come up with. But I watched an ep earlier today and just downloaded the Auggie one from season 2.
btw, I don't know if you looked the film up yet I mentioned the other week, but I ended up with a spare copy of "Max" if you want it (I bought the DVD, they sent me one which arrived with the box caved in, I complained, they sent me another one).
I'm not particularly watching Covert Affairs, sometimes I see an ep, but most of the time I don't. It doesn't seem to be going places, and the plots aren't all that interesting, though I do feel that the cast could bring it if the writers ever brought it up a notch.
I never did look that film up, so if you want to go through the trouble of giving it to me, that would be great! Thank you so much!
Community winds up in a far different place than it seems like it would at the start (I started with an amazing S2 episode and then went back to the beginning--it's worth it for how it changes as it goes along). I watched the most recent episode twice today. At some point, it feels like it gave up on the idea of a main character completely. Everyone is horrible and wonderful and human.
Community is definitely my current favourite of all those. I laugh much nore when I watch The Big Bang Theory than during Community eps, but Community makes me feel happy all over in a way that TBBT doesn't, if you see what I mean? The humour is quite different, TBBT still has gags and a sitcom format even if it's about geeks, while Community keeps breaking all expectations and formats, going out on a limb, taking risks, *being* geeky. (No wonder it's not doing nearly as well -- it's not exactly playing it safe
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Yeah, liking a show and laughing at it isn't necessarily the same thing. I hardly ever laugh during Little Mosque on the Prairie, but I still enjoy watching it.
I'm going to keep watching Community, because so far it's not so bad and people are telling me it gets better. But I don't know how long I'll give it; I'm easily distracted. (I still haven't finished season 2 of Being Human and Survivors, and those are shows I liked.)
TVD has always been a soap, but it used to be an interesting one. Now it's moving dangerously into The Bold and the Beautiful territory, where everything happens in real time.
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Fringe is one I haven't seen, so I've no idea about that.
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Basically they're a future Roman-slash-reality-TV-inspired dystopia in which the people are forced to send kids in as tributes in a gladiator-type game to the death. The books aren't perfect in any way, but they have a lot of pretty good points about how life and death matters are played out in the media. Also, several awesome characters.
This is one universe where I think it wouldn't hurt to see the film first, just to check if the concept is interesting to you at all. Then again, a whole bunch of people seem to have liked the books without liking the film. (And the third book, which is my favourite, has a lot of people hating it. So people seem to be reading/viewing with different mindsets.)
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Are you still watching Covert Affairs, btw? I have problems following that show because Chris Gorham and the female head of the department aside, I don't really like it, mainly due to the tone or the plots they come up with. But I watched an ep earlier today and just downloaded the Auggie one from season 2.
btw, I don't know if you looked the film up yet I mentioned the other week, but I ended up with a spare copy of "Max" if you want it (I bought the DVD, they sent me one which arrived with the box caved in, I complained, they sent me another one).
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I'm not particularly watching Covert Affairs, sometimes I see an ep, but most of the time I don't. It doesn't seem to be going places, and the plots aren't all that interesting, though I do feel that the cast could bring it if the writers ever brought it up a notch.
I never did look that film up, so if you want to go through the trouble of giving it to me, that would be great! Thank you so much!
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I'm going to keep watching Community, because so far it's not so bad and people are telling me it gets better. But I don't know how long I'll give it; I'm easily distracted. (I still haven't finished season 2 of Being Human and Survivors, and those are shows I liked.)
TVD has always been a soap, but it used to be an interesting one. Now it's moving dangerously into The Bold and the Beautiful territory, where everything happens in real time.
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