So -- and I'm sorry if this is a way-too-picky question -- when you say the last death was cut short (this is Cato, yes?), are we talking a few seconds, 30 seconds, a minute? I realize you were watching a movie rather than your pocketwatch, so any ballpark-y figure is fine.

Seeing that kind of stuff fucks me up.

I figured that might be of interest. I think that was the hardest thing in the books for me. Basically, they have the stand off on top of the cornucopia, he falls, dogs descend on him (but you don't really see much) he pleads once or twice and Katniss shoots him (which you don't see--I mean, you see her shoot but that's it). He doesn't get dragged under, there's no real hesitation on Katniss's part. 30 seconds maybe? I'm bad at estimates like that. It seemed pretty immediate.

For Steph, top 5 most shocking/disturbing moments of HG, the movie: cornucopia scene, bomb kid guarding food (but zero blood), a scene from the "history of the HG" montage at the reaping (a kid rising as victor with a bloody brick in his hands--totally implication, but still), Seneca's beard, and, probably, Katniss's burn (but I issues with stuff like that).

I think that's tolerable, given that, again, it's the freaking Hunger Games. t edit Re: Cato at the end.

Thanks -- I really appreciate it!

t edit again Seneca's beard? I totally don't remember anything about that.

I thought that was a joke, but maybe I'm being dim.

Well, at this point, I'm braced for anything horrific. And my memory for details of the books is spotty, so there could be a leprechan from District 69 who sexes up all the tributes and I'd just think "Did I skim over that, or...?"

“If you could be any other character other than your own, who would you be?”

Liam: “Haymitch”

Josh: “Haymitch, for sure”

Jennifer: “I would be Wes Bentley’s beard”

Seriously, the beard is disturbing.

so, someone in my twitter timeline said these 1 star reviews of Dracula gave him an aneurysm.

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go in peace.

The reviewer who said Dracula was written in "Old English language" would be stunned by actual Old English. I'd guess that the intersection of the people who like Twilight and the people who like Dracula is quite small.

sigh ... reminds me of the YouTube video of the Twilight fan who was sobbing uncontrollably because another writer had not been sufficiently appreciative of the books. She attributed it to jealousy - after all, who is this Stephen King guy?