I was just on Goodreads rating a bunch of books five stars that I loooved when I was a teenager. Then I remembered how icky I found The Apprentice Adept series when I re-read it last year. Now I don't know if I can trust my memories of what's a good book and what's not.
Fred: The size and depth of the wound indicate a female vampire. Harmony: Or gay! Fred: Um…it doesn't really work like that.
'Harm's Way'
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."
Laga - Mar 19, 2012 6:44:05 am PDT #18220 of 28286
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Ginger - Mar 19, 2012 8:16:04 am PDT #18221 of 28286
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Interesting story about the marketing of the Hunger Games movie [link]
I think trying to map Panem is an exercise in futility. The districts and distances between them don't make much practical sense on the books. I'd argue that it can't possibly cover the continental U.S., because the amount of manpower and technology it would take to maintain a totalitarian government over that amount of territory is ridiculous.
Jessica - Mar 19, 2012 8:21:38 am PDT #18222 of 28286
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I have to disagree with this line:
In a corporate twist on “The Hunger Games,” Mr. Palen is being forced to fight for his professional life following Lionsgate’s acquisition in January of Summit Entertainment, which controls the “Twilight” franchise. That means Lionsgate now has two marketing chiefs, and there is only room for one.
Unless Summit Entertainment has adopted a Market Forces style promotion scheme, in which case I'm surprised this is the first we're hearing about it.
Ginger - Mar 19, 2012 8:49:18 am PDT #18223 of 28286
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Perhaps this is the first step. They can fight it out on the Hunger Games set. Two marketing chiefs enter, one leaves.
Kate P. - Mar 19, 2012 9:50:14 am PDT #18224 of 28286
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Ooh, this is fun: Can You Identify These Famous Writers By Their Distinctive Prose Alone?
I got five -- more than I was expecting, though I'd say the subject of some of the excerpts gave me more clues than prose style.
Toddson - Mar 19, 2012 9:59:46 am PDT #18225 of 28286
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'm reading Seanan McGuire's Discount Armageddon and enjoying it a lot. Our very own Polter-Cow makes an appearance - under his real name - in it.
Polter-Cow - Mar 19, 2012 10:02:04 am PDT #18226 of 28286
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hil R. - Mar 19, 2012 4:19:48 pm PDT #18227 of 28286
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I've seen a lot of maps but this one makes the most sense to me.
That one seems fairly reasonable, except that I think District 2 needs to be much bigger and cover a significant part of the Rockies. District 9 also needs to be bigger, if that's where all the grain is grown. I'd probably push District 8 further north, since that one is textiles and doesn't really depend on having a particular type of land or climate, and give District 9 most of that space.
Also, Panem sure seems to build a lot of stuff for a country that doesn't have any place that produces steel.
hippocampus - Mar 20, 2012 4:21:32 am PDT #18228 of 28286
not your mom's socks.
Elizabeth Bear's new book Range of Ghosts is coming out in a week - first in the new series. She let me pester her about food and worldbuilding a bit last week. Interview is up over here: [link]
megan walker - Mar 20, 2012 5:44:10 am PDT #18229 of 28286
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Hunger Games question for books 2&3: Isn't Seneca the gamemaker for book 2 and part of the rebellion?