Mockingjay!

[praetorianguard]

Once upon a time, there was a book called The Hunger Games. Somewhat randomly, Marbles brought an ARC home with her from BEA, said everyone was talking about it, read it, and said, “OMG, you have to read this, you are going to love it

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[thistleingrey]

never have I read a book where an author has put her heroine through so much pain

I think you've just identified part of why Katniss doesn't connect, for me. It's not that I want her to have suffered more than she does--it's quite a lot--but I'm "suffering" from having read more intense and/or better written prior to meeting these books. Hardly the first time. I will be sure to tell my time-traveling alternate self to pick up Collins's books earlier in my SF-reading trajectory, because I think I would've liked them much better that way. (SF in particular: this is not me imagining that I've read more books in general than all folks who like Hunger Games! That'd be ridiculous.)

*eats spoilers as snacks*
*waits for public library's copies to cycle through*

[thistleingrey]

Or perhaps I should worry less about what does/n't bug me about those books. :)

[praetorianguard]

=)) It's true. There are so many books; you can probably give up on these.

[thistleingrey]

This doesn't hearten me. But I will still get it from the library....

[verstehen]

Mockingjay is sitting at home waiting for me to BE AT HOME where I can read it but no I have to be responsible and teach people stuff and go to meetings and make money.

[praetorianguard]

Maybe you should teach them all about Mockingjay and have mandatory class reading time. :P

[verstehen]

Well, it was a Sociology of Leisure class...

[smilie117]

Mockingjay!

I should've done some rereading but the book release sort of crept up on me - I had that same issue of trying to remember everyone again but got used to it after a while.

I don't know if I was surprised or more like that I just had a bunch of whatwhatwhat moments with a few WTF moments thrown in because I was getting more and more tired as I read but it was just too hard to put down (until just after the parachutes fell and I had trouble processing on no sleep - then I had to put it down for a nap XD).

[praetorianguard]

Ha. This is what comes of reading in the middle of the night!

[luminousmarble]

what kind of a freak do you think I am

:)

And I find it highly amusing that we still are not book friends.

[praetorianguard]

Aw, we both like some things. The book of which we do not speak. Cashore's books. The Hunger Games. HP. Pullman, though we have other disagreements over Pullman. (Hmph.) And then we stop being book friends. :))

[luminousmarble]

Book of bunnies! Ender's Game (and then: OSC is a tool as a person). And The Poky Little Puppy!

And then we are it's okay, but not my favorite book in the world about a lot of the same books, too.

[shaebay]

Oh crap, I think I might start crying again. Rocks fell and one of the best characters died. *wibble*

[praetorianguard]

I know! Marbles and I were talking last night that it's interesting that Collins wrote such an anti-war book with so many characters that are so morally dubious in that respect. It's almost like: Look how horrible all of these people are, they killed the nice character!