Glad to hear you're enjoying The Hunger Games trilogy! Would love to discuss it with you when you're finished. :)
I had to order my copies of Catching Fire and Mockingjay from B&N online. They're paperback, but large print. Kinda bugs me that they don't look uniform on my bookshelf next to my paperback copy of The Hunger Games, but that's an annoying quirk of mine, I guess.
Sorry to hear that the B&N sales associate was such a snobby, unhelpful bitch. :P Can't stand people like that. When one works in customer service, a friendly persona is usually expected or required, even if someone is asking them about something for the millionth time.
I saw The Hunger Games film on Friday night. I would definitely try to see it soon because I don't think it will be in theaters much longer with all of the upcoming summer blockbuster movies. Hope you get to see it soon!
Enjoying and being emotionally pummeled by it a the same time. *g* At this point, I think I've got less than 100 pages of Mockingjay to go. Probably could have finished last night, but I really needed the sleep, and I kind of want to pace myself with the series (plus, may have needed some respite from what was going on in the book).
Kinda bugs me that they don't look uniform on my bookshelf next to my paperback copy of The Hunger Games, but that's an annoying quirk of mine, I guess.
I have the same quirk. It still bothers me that my copy of Order Of The Phoenix is paperback, whereas all my other Harry Potter books are hardcover. That was another instance of impatience, though.
True. Too bad there are a lot of people who work in customer service who are the exact opposite. (Granted, I wouldn't want to work in that field, either!)
I'm glad you got to see it! I have tomorrow off, so am hoping to catch a matinee showing.
Enjoying and being emotionally pummeled by it a the same time. *g*
Haha, yeah, "enjoy" might not be the best word. ;) I was emotionally pummeled by it as well -- without saying too much, after I read the last page of Mockingjay, I just shut the book and stared at the wall for awhile. I felt so emotionally drained from it. Fantastic story, though. Bravo to Ms. Collins. Can't wait to chat about the details, fave characters, etc. of the book with you when you're finished
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Yes, that. I just finished it a little earlier, and keep telling myself to pull it together. I basically cried intermittently through the last 20-30 pages. It IS a fantastic story, I agree. So much raw, unfiltered realism -- something I didn't expect at all. Gutting, so gutting. And, well, it ended with the two characters I cared the most about, with a sliver a hope... which is all that so many people have to go on, even in less horrid situations.
On Goodreads, the only thing I could think to write in the review was "devastatingly good," because... well, it IS both good and that adverb too.
Kindles... I'm not crazy about at all, for the same reasons you mentioned. And yet I'm interested too, again, for the same reasons you mentioned. Bringing up the iPod is a good point. There have been some Kindles in the raffles we've had at work, and I must admit I put tickets in for them. But not winning them was not disappointing at all. Nothing, nothing will replace the pages of a real book. I need the
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I had to order my copies of Catching Fire and Mockingjay from B&N online. They're paperback, but large print. Kinda bugs me that they don't look uniform on my bookshelf next to my paperback copy of The Hunger Games, but that's an annoying quirk of mine, I guess.
Sorry to hear that the B&N sales associate was such a snobby, unhelpful bitch. :P Can't stand people like that. When one works in customer service, a friendly persona is usually expected or required, even if someone is asking them about something for the millionth time.
I saw The Hunger Games film on Friday night. I would definitely try to see it soon because I don't think it will be in theaters much longer with all of the upcoming summer blockbuster movies. Hope you get to see it soon!
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Kinda bugs me that they don't look uniform on my bookshelf next to my paperback copy of The Hunger Games, but that's an annoying quirk of mine, I guess.
I have the same quirk. It still bothers me that my copy of Order Of The Phoenix is paperback, whereas all my other Harry Potter books are hardcover. That was another instance of impatience, though.
True. Too bad there are a lot of people who work in customer service who are the exact opposite. (Granted, I wouldn't want to work in that field, either!)
I'm glad you got to see it! I have tomorrow off, so am hoping to catch a matinee showing.
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Haha, yeah, "enjoy" might not be the best word. ;) I was emotionally pummeled by it as well -- without saying too much, after I read the last page of Mockingjay, I just shut the book and stared at the wall for awhile. I felt so emotionally drained from it. Fantastic story, though. Bravo to Ms. Collins. Can't wait to chat about the details, fave characters, etc. of the book with you when you're finished ( ... )
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Yes, that. I just finished it a little earlier, and keep telling myself to pull it together. I basically cried intermittently through the last 20-30 pages. It IS a fantastic story, I agree. So much raw, unfiltered realism -- something I didn't expect at all. Gutting, so gutting. And, well, it ended with the two characters I cared the most about, with a sliver a hope... which is all that so many people have to go on, even in less horrid situations.
On Goodreads, the only thing I could think to write in the review was "devastatingly good," because... well, it IS both good and that adverb too.
Kindles... I'm not crazy about at all, for the same reasons you mentioned. And yet I'm interested too, again, for the same reasons you mentioned. Bringing up the iPod is a good point. There have been some Kindles in the raffles we've had at work, and I must admit I put tickets in for them. But not winning them was not disappointing at all. Nothing, nothing will replace the pages of a real book. I need the ( ... )
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