I just finished Mockingjay. I'm still all flaily.
That's the thrill of living in the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of fiends and devils and ghouls to engage ... Pardon me for finding the glass half-full.
Giles ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Hil R. - Mar 18, 2012 4:27:54 pm PDT #18210 of 28282
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil R. - Mar 18, 2012 5:02:38 pm PDT #18211 of 28282
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Trying to put together Mockingjay thoughts. Wow, that was bleak. Like, nobody comes out of there without serious psychological scars. Well, of the people who actually make it all the way to the end, anyway.
I'm also puzzling over the logistics of how the districts are divided up, and how many people there are and where they all live. The more I try to figure it out, the less sense it makes.
Steph L. - Mar 18, 2012 5:24:51 pm PDT #18212 of 28282
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Wow, that was bleak.
To the power of 10.
DebetEsse - Mar 18, 2012 6:18:58 pm PDT #18213 of 28282
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Wow, that was bleak.
I sometimes wonder if the Jr Hi kids who are reading them really get just how bleak and fucked up they are.
Liese S. - Mar 18, 2012 8:28:55 pm PDT #18214 of 28282
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Probably. It's exactly the kind of bleak I would have loved in Jr. High. I would have read it from beneath a wall of my hair in my eyes, so you could not see into my black black heart. And then I would have gone roller skating.
smonster - Mar 19, 2012 1:52:28 am PDT #18215 of 28282
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
(hearts Liese, as usual)
lisah - Mar 19, 2012 4:22:00 am PDT #18216 of 28282
Punishingly Intricate
DDebet, did you see the interviews with kids about the Hunger Games books that I posted? Those kids got it.
DebetEsse - Mar 19, 2012 6:06:43 am PDT #18217 of 28282
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Lisa, yeah. With those sorts of things, I always worry about cherry-picking. I spent yesterday morning with a couple of Jr Hi kids, and we briefly talked about Twilight (didn't have time to get into the depth of the problematic nature of the whole thing), so I was sort of primed in the direction of "they'll gloss over things in their own thinking"
Laga - Mar 19, 2012 6:17:57 am PDT #18218 of 28282
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm also puzzling over the logistics of how the districts are divided up
I've seen a lot of maps but this one makes the most sense to me.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 19, 2012 6:38:36 am PDT #18219 of 28282
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I stopped reading him because I met him and he was severely creepy, and friends had stories of more creepiness. He seems to live in his own self-righteous world of creepy.
It does give me that sense of considering himself a special snowflake who's wrongly condemned by society for being sensitive enough to understand kids' needs—and totally blind to how molestation actually messes children up for life—that you often see in pedophiles.
Must locate old paperback copy of Blue Adept to burn in ritual cleansing...