Extras is...okay. I'm glad I read it for completion's sake, but I didn't like it as much as the first 3.
I also really like Westerfeld's Midnighters trilogy, although it's not dystopia like Uglies or Hunger Games.
Jayne: That's a good idea. Good idea. Tell us where the stuff's at so I can shoot you. Mal: Point of interest? Offering to shoot us might not work so well as an incentive as you might imagine.
'Out Of Gas'
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."
Steph L. - Dec 10, 2010 9:03:53 am PST #13220 of 28277
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Laga - Dec 10, 2010 9:24:52 am PST #13221 of 28277
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I thought the (third book spoilers) pods were designed so they could be activated remotely but also I didn't think the Capitol was too worried that a few citizens might get blown up by mistake .
Consuela - Dec 10, 2010 9:29:48 am PST #13222 of 28277
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I didn't like it as much as the first 3
Me, neither. The first three were the best of that sequence.
Polter-Cow - Dec 10, 2010 9:40:18 am PST #13223 of 28277
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm a completist, so I'll probably read it. Maybe I'll do them in January.
Polter-Cow - Dec 10, 2010 10:44:19 am PST #13224 of 28277
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
HOLY CRAP. ZOMG. WHAT THE FUCK. JESUS CHRIST, SHIT, STOP GETTING SO REAL.
AMY FINISH THE BOOK NOW.
Steph L. - Dec 10, 2010 10:49:33 am PST #13225 of 28277
I look more rad than Lutheranism
HOLY CRAP. ZOMG. WHAT THE FUCK. JESUS CHRIST, SHIT, STOP GETTING SO REAL.
It was one hell of an ending.
Laga - Dec 10, 2010 10:50:02 am PST #13226 of 28277
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
hoo doggy.
Consuela - Dec 10, 2010 10:56:14 am PST #13227 of 28277
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Heh.
sumi - Dec 10, 2010 10:59:42 am PST #13228 of 28277
Art Crawl!!!
Game of Thrones app for your iphone.
Polter-Cow - Dec 10, 2010 11:04:34 am PST #13229 of 28277
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It was one hell of an ending.
SERIOUSLY. The first book had a good punch, but I kind of expect the second book in a trilogy to have a whopper of an ending because it's allowed to do that.
It took Katniss long enough to realize the enemy was the Capitol, but, holy crap, she BLEW UP THE FORCE FIELD. And then that last chapter is like the end of Prisoner of Azkaban, throwing plot twist after plot twist at you to explain the weird little threads that have been running through the story. I had suspected that Plutarch was a good guy during the watch scene, but I couldn't figure out what his deal was, and he had still designed a pretty sadistic arena that killed a bunch of people, so, you know. And, sure, I assumed that District 13 was real. But I didn't expect (and was kind of glad) that there had been an underground resistance effort for quite a while, and Katniss really was the spark that lit the fire of the rebellion. I don't really understand how the Capitol snagged Peeta and Enobaria when they were, like, right next to Katniss and Beetee. And I feel like the rescue sort of skirts a plot hole because how were the hovercrafts getting into the arena before? Couldn't Plutarch and Co. have just exploited whatever mechanism that was to rescue everyone? I mean, I like blowing up force fields and causing lots of explosions and mass panic as much as the next guy, but still. And holy crap, when Katniss just clawed the shit out of Haymitch, CHRIST. And then what the shit the Capitol FIREBOMBED DISTRICT TWELVE INTO OBLIVION. WHAT THE FUCK. IT IS SO ON.
I am really worried about the mixed reviews of Mockingjay, but I hope I CAPSLOCK ENJOY it as much as the first two. Stay tuned tomorrow.