What is a DNF review?
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'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."
Amy - Dec 10, 2010 7:55:31 am PST #13203 of 28277
Because books.
Jesse - Dec 10, 2010 7:56:10 am PST #13204 of 28277
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
But I wish to jebuslug I knew how to write something that people would just not put down.
End each chapter on OMGWTF, for one thing! That always pisses me off, because it means I can never go to bed.
§ ita § - Dec 10, 2010 7:59:15 am PST #13205 of 28277
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hunger Games was unparalleled for me in my recent reading. I haven't had anything that hard to put down for a while. Easy to read, emotionally affecting, and I read Mockingjay on a bad few days and wept like a baby. I'm so impressed. Not in a Harry Potter-brings-reading-to-the-masses way. She just broke through my jaded cynicism and hooked me right in.
Which is a talent I value more than worldbuilding, honestly, although I always prefer them to go hand in hand.
Liese S. - Dec 10, 2010 8:00:58 am PST #13206 of 28277
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Did not finish, I'm guessing?
Barb - Dec 10, 2010 8:01:38 am PST #13207 of 28277
“Not dead yet!”
What is a DNF review?
Did Not Finish.
Reader said the book bored her to death.
Amy - Dec 10, 2010 8:02:20 am PST #13208 of 28277
Because books.
Ah. I'd never heard that.
Polter-Cow - Dec 10, 2010 8:05:35 am PST #13209 of 28277
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Easy to read
I think this is a big thing. It reads very easily, which makes it easy to get into, and then once you're into it, fuck, you can't get out because OMGWTF.
her world-building kind of crappy
I don't have problems with her general dystopian world-building, but I still don't understand how they design/build/control these arenas.
Amy - Dec 10, 2010 8:07:43 am PST #13210 of 28277
Because books.
I don't really need to know that, though, P-C. Personally, I mean, because the Capitol is portrayed as so powerful and so unknowable, I can be with Kat in not understanding how it's done, but having to roll with it.
And she shows a lot of their tech in little ways with the body mods that people in the Capitol get, so.
I am also very much not a hard sci-fi reader, though.
Consuela - Dec 10, 2010 8:07:46 am PST #13211 of 28277
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yeah, P-C. That, and there's a whole set-piece in Mockingjay that just threw me right out of the story because it made NO SENSE AT ALL. For those who read Mockingjay: the bit where the "pods" are in the streets of the Capitol, which means the authorities set boobytraps all over the area inhabited by their own civilian population. Totally nonsensical.
megan walker - Dec 10, 2010 8:10:00 am PST #13212 of 28277
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I really didn't have a problem with the world-building until Mockingjay, which just didn't seem to fit with the other two books at all.