I'm only 20 chapters into the first Hunger Games book and it already turned me into an emotional mess.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
zuisa - Nov 10, 2010 6:43:53 am PST #12885 of 28348
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
tiggy - Nov 10, 2010 7:11:58 am PST #12886 of 28348
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
understandable, zuisa! i was reading it at work one day and got to a part that made me cry. i had to turn around to make sure no one could see.
zuisa - Nov 10, 2010 7:28:40 am PST #12887 of 28348
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
When I was reading last night I got to the part where Rue dies and Katniss sings to her and oh my goodness was I a mess. I hear that the other two books in the trilogy don't exactly get any happier so I am prepared for lots of sadness in my very near future.
Amy - Nov 10, 2010 7:30:04 am PST #12888 of 28348
Because books.
I was reading Catching Fire during Sara's swimming lesson last week, and got to a part that absolutely shocked me -- like take my breath away shock -- and teared up.
Luckily, it was so humid in there I don't think anyone noticed.
DawnK - Nov 10, 2010 7:58:59 am PST #12889 of 28348
giraffe mode
zuisa, I got to that part while I was eating lunch at Chipolte. Thankfully I could cover the tears with a fake hot salsa cough. Man, I finally had to not read them while out at lunch 'cause you never know when a gut punch is coming.
§ ita § - Nov 10, 2010 8:07:23 am PST #12890 of 28348
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I read the second one on a really bad day and wept for miles. I'd like to call it healthy and cathartic, but I don't even know.
tiggy - Nov 10, 2010 8:32:37 am PST #12891 of 28348
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
that part killed me too, zuisa. i'm really fighting the urge to re-read all of them. i have a habit of zooming through books and then if i love them i instantly want to re-read.
zuisa - Nov 10, 2010 9:34:47 am PST #12892 of 28348
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I just finished the first book. Wow was that an emotional roller coaster. When they ever announced that there could only be one winner after all, I think I nearly died. I have the next book already but I think I need a break from the stress.
zuisa - Nov 12, 2010 2:43:18 am PST #12893 of 28348
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Sorry for the spammy Hunger Games serial posting! I just don't know anyone else who has read them, really.
I have about 100 pages of Catching Fire left and I have a really easy substituting gig today but I am terrified to start reading because I don't want to break down weeping in front of all the students. So far I've only cried reading this one once, but. Man. Talk about bleak.
I frequently want to just slam the book shut and yell AND THEN PEETA AND KATNISS LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER THE END.
Kat - Nov 12, 2010 5:13:43 am PST #12894 of 28348
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Oh Zuisa.... Mockingbird is the bleakest of the three.