More Swancon-inspired reading

[zebra363]

The young adult dystopias panel at Swancon led me to finish the Hunger Games trilogy and then reread the part of John Christopher's Tripods series that's in the local library system.

The edition of The White Mountains included a preface written by John Christopher 35 years after the book's initial publication. I found it tremendously interesting,

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[redbraids]

So interesting reading about The White Mountains! I love that series.

Not sure if I could read the leukemia one though.

[zebra363]

So far I've reread The White Mountains and The City of Gold and Lead. Mundaring library had the first one at the Mundaring branch and the second at Greenmount, but no copy of the third and no interest in my suggestion that a person who read The City of Gold and Lead might want to know how things turned out. The budget must be tight. I'm looking forward to The Pool of Fire and When the Tripods Came when they can get them in for me.

I finished the Hunger Games trilogy first and had been thinking how much more horrific it was than the Tripods series, but I didn't have to get very far into Book 2 to be disabused of that notion. I'd forgotten the details of what the Masters' city did to the boy slaves, and what they did with the girls!

You have more than enough experience with the topics covered in the leukemia book not to want to revisit them in fiction! It was a fantastic read, but a gruelling one.

[redbraids]

I;m going to have to read to remember what happens to the girls in the City of Gold and lead.

I have all 4 of them, if you have trouble getting them from your library.

xx

[zebra363]

Remember Eloise, who won the competition at the tournament by being chosen by the knights, and went off to serve the Tripods?

On reflection, I was wrong about what I said above. The Hunger Games are much worse, because all the adults knew what was going on and did nothing to stop it.

I'm sure some Perth library must have the others and will be able to loan them to Mundaring, but if not I may take you up on that (or buy them and then donate them to the library to correct the situation!).

[sarren]

Good on him for taking constructive criticism and rewriting twice.

did you enjoy The Hunger Games?

[zebra363]

Especially when he already had 30 published novels. You can tell that some authors quit taking advice after the first few (or they just inexplicably get much worse).

I found the Hunger Games trilogy very readable and went through it quickly, but didn't fall for it deeply or fannishly!