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.
Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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 9:34:47 am PST #12892 of 28287
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
zuisa - Nov 12, 2010 2:43:18 am PST #12893 of 28287
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 28287
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Oh Zuisa.... Mockingbird is the bleakest of the three.
Amy - Nov 12, 2010 5:31:23 am PST #12895 of 28287
Because books.
Oh god, don't tell me that. I'm halfway through Catching Fire.
tiggy - Nov 12, 2010 5:32:18 am PST #12896 of 28287
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Mockingjay was my least favorite. it's definitely the bleakest.
tiggy - Nov 12, 2010 5:33:42 am PST #12897 of 28287
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
if you're into fanvids where people take footage from other movies to make a fake trailer for another movie, you should watch this Hunger Games fanvid. [link]
Steph L. - Nov 12, 2010 6:55:22 am PST #12898 of 28287
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Seriously. Mockingjay is dark dark darkity dark with a side of despair. Mockingjay makes the first 2 books look like laugh riots.
zuisa - Nov 12, 2010 7:06:53 am PST #12899 of 28287
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Oh, yikes. I knew Mockingjay was bleaker than the others, but man. I just cannot imagine Katniss's life getting a whole lot worse at this point. I am envisioning a very high death toll her. I just passed the part where the jabberjays are screaming in Prim and Gale and everyone else's voices and I shudder to think what the Capitol is doing to them =( I am going to need some happy books after this!
§ ita § - Nov 12, 2010 7:09:41 am PST #12900 of 28287
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
zuisa, whatever you do, DON'T START WATCHING BSG RIGHT NOW. Pace yourself.
eta: I didn't have audio, but the visuals of that trailer were great. Was that RDJ as Haymitch?
zuisa - Nov 12, 2010 7:11:54 am PST #12901 of 28287
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Hah. That's probably sound advice. Something happy is definitely in order, seeing as how I'm probably going to need to be scraped off the ground in my sadness-induced stupor when I'm done with Mockingjay.