Trouble in Paradise
doglove
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A Hunger Games post
I finally got the book from the library after putting a request for it last October. I read it in two days over the weekend! FI and I are headed to see the movie this week (maybe tonight!) and I'm excited. I know imoan loved the movie - did you?
I have to wait a long time (number 700 in line) for the next book. Can you give me a summary without spoilers? Does the Capitol go after Katniss for the stunt she pulled at the end of the Hunger Games book?? I can't believe she seems so dense about Peeta's feelings.
I have so many questions!
Re: A Hunger Games post
Do you have a Kindle? I can loan you the other two. I loved Hunger Games, really enjoyed Catching Fire, and wanted to biatch slap Katniss towards the end of Mockingjay.
And the movie was great. My DH didn't read the books and really enjoyed it.
Really Motzie? I thought it was slow up until they were actually in the arena. I was slightly disappointed with some of the deaths (thought there would be more action), but overall I was hooked and found it hard to put down.
I don't have a kindle - boohoo.
I thought the first book was really good and I read it in 3 days, but Catching Fire has been hard for me to get into. I have not seen the movie yet, but really want to.
Have fun at the movie, DL!
I haven't seen the movie, but I loved the books, and no... cannot give a summary without spoilers.
I just want to say I feel you on the long library queue. I think I've finally made it to number 300 and something on the wait for Christopher Moore's new book. I know, it's trashy popcorn reading... but I think he's hilarious.
I didn't like the series. I don't understand all the hype. I liked the plot, but the writing was terrible. Starting Fire and Mockingjay really dragged and the inconsistancies in Katniss's character annoyed me.
On the plus side, the whole time I was reading I kept thinking "this will make a really good movie".
I think Catching Fire was my favorite, but I loved HG, and I've grown to not hate Mockingjay as much as I did when I first read it. (Though yeah, I wanted to smack Katniss, too.) And I loved the movie, but bring tissues, DL. Lots. I cried more than I thought I would, and the whole theater was pretty much outright sobbing at one point.
I think this is one of the few times the movie version works better than the book, since the book's POV is limited to Katniss, and the movie doesn't have that limitation.
I finally read the trilogy this past weekend, too.
Yes, the Capitol goes after her. Read the other two books. Target has them at 20% off.
As far as the density over Peeta's feelings, think of the whole Maslow's hierarchy of needs thing. She has been so consumed with simply surviving, and making sure her family survives, that she kind of hasn't entered puberty with its crushes and so forth. And putting her in a fight to the death situation? I think it is a good decision on the writer's part to make her sort of incapable of grasping that other people care about such trivial things as romance at all.
LOVED the books! I read the series in less than a week. Books 1-2 were definitely the best, IMO. Mockingjay was good but not the same caliber.
Hopefully I don't get flamed for this but I just thought the movie was okay. I mean, they stuck to the story line but it didn't grab me the way the book did. I know they have time constraints but I wish they could have developed some characters and story lines better.
DL, have you looked on ebay or half.com for a cheap, used copy?
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I am too cheap to purchase books.
We did see the movie last night, I thought it was pretty good. Although the one thing I was disappointed in was how they took the complexity away from the Peeta character.
I can see that. I'm hoping the second movie explains things a little better on the love triangle front, but I think the first one did a really great job of world-building. And if they only had time for one (because the movies was just long enough, I think), then I'm glad they chose the latter. Though the scenes where they randomly panned to Sad Gale watching the games cracked me up.
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