Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
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.
Did not finish, I'm guessing?
What is a DNF review?
Did Not Finish.
Reader said the book bored her to death.
Ah. I'd never heard that.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yep.
But if the world-building issues aren't really till Mockingjay, then at least I'm not crazy about wondering what people were complaining about.
I had problems with the world-building, too. The biggest was that Collins wrote it as though the Capitol, which I'm assuming is Denver-ish, is able to defend itself against all attackers because...of the mountains. Pretty sure the books aren't set in the 1800s.
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But if the world-building issues aren't really till Mockingjay, then at least I'm not crazy about wondering what people were complaining about.
My world-building issue was in book 1.