OMG, I'm #62 on the library hold list for Mockingjay. I always do this -- read older books from the library and then have to buy the later ones when I can't wait!
My work's illegal, but at least it's honest.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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."
Jesse - Dec 04, 2010 10:33:05 am PST #13066 of 28275
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Polter-Cow - Dec 04, 2010 10:37:36 am PST #13067 of 28275
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jesse, Amazon has all the books on sale for over half price right now. That's how I bought them. Hardcover books at paperback prices!
meara - Dec 04, 2010 10:38:30 am PST #13068 of 28275
I, too, am reading Mark Reads, and it's hilarious! (I wonder how much more I would pick up if I actually read shit slowly instead of being all "MUST KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NOW NOW NOW"). I keep laughing at the repeated "OMG SHIT IS GETTING REAL" comments from him. He has no idea how real shit will get.
DavidS - Dec 04, 2010 10:47:07 am PST #13069 of 28275
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
JZ followed Mark Reads all through the Harry Potter books and it's pretty fun also as he hits the big HSQ moments.
Jesse - Dec 04, 2010 11:23:09 am PST #13070 of 28275
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
(I wonder how much more I would pick up if I actually read shit slowly instead of being all "MUST KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NOW NOW NOW").
Yeah, I can't even remember where the second book ended. I might re-read it right now.
Volans - Dec 04, 2010 11:37:16 am PST #13071 of 28275
move out and draw fire
OK, I guess I have to read it. I bought it back when, and the DH read it and very much didn't like it, so that plus me being kind of ooky on the premise meant I haven't read it yet.
Liese S. - Dec 04, 2010 11:45:16 am PST #13072 of 28275
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I don't know how to read slowly. The SO's family were all gawking and marveling at me this holiday over how fast I read. I was all shruggy about it. "Do you...enjoy it?" "Yes, I just enjoy it faster than everybody else."
Rayne - Dec 04, 2010 12:19:15 pm PST #13073 of 28275
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
Thanks for the link to Mark Reads! I think I might enjoy reading that almost as much as I enjoyed reading the books!
Consuela - Dec 04, 2010 1:14:30 pm PST #13074 of 28275
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
DH read it and very much didn't like it, so that plus me being kind of ooky on the premise meant I haven't read it yet
I don't think the series as a whole pays off that well, but the first book in particular is written in that OMG CANNOT PUT THIS DOWN kind of way that makes for best-sellers and movie franchises. And if you read it fast enough you won't notice all the world-building problems.
The premise, though, is definitely ooky: it's a dystopia, even more so than Westerfeld's Uglies universe. Which I think is all-around a much better series, but doesn't have quite that insane narrative drive THG does.
Ginger - Dec 04, 2010 1:37:35 pm PST #13075 of 28275
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I just finished Mockingjay, and I didn't see the ending as being particularly bleak, except in that Panem is still a pretty damn bleak place. Everdeen, however, rejects the role as pawn she was forced into by the revolutionaries. The world can change. The games are over; people know about the other districts and what the Capitol did.
If you want compelling and the absolutely anti-bleak, go with Connie Willis' Blackout/All Clear.