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."
Well, an algorithm is mostly saying "people who bought A tend to buy B," no?
No, if Amazon tells you "related to items you viewed" or Netflix tells you "top 10 for Jesse" (it knows I want SPN, so it's good, but let's be clear about how it reached that conclusion), that's just a correlational algorithm, but it's phrased...encouragingly. Like there might be some surface link.
Katniss still had two guys in love with her throughout the series (more or less), which counts
It's your proposition, so it's your call. I would take away points if the definition is "kickass boyfriend", though. I think she gets a great one, but kickass isn't his defining characteristic for the latter half of the property.
Well fuck, I finished Divergent today. I didn't realize I would read it that quickly. It has been a long time since I finished a book in a day and a half.
Matched is nothing like Hunger Games except dystopia. It actually, weirdly, has more in common with ... oh shit, the book that Lois Lowry wrote where everyone gets placed in a job? And he was the.....not seeker, but the repository for all feelings?
Shit. My brain is mush. Matched had slightly more in common with that.
A good LA based dystopia that I thought was interesting was Starters by Lissa Price. Old people rent out and take over young people's bodies.
Matched is nothing like Hunger Games except dystopia. It actually, weirdly, has more in common with ... oh shit, the book that Lois Lowry wrote where everyone gets placed in a job? And he was the.....not seeker, but the repository for all feelings?
Shit. My brain is mush. Matched had slightly more in common with that.
A good LA based dystopia that I thought was interesting was Starters by Lissa Price. Old people rent out and take over young people's bodies.
That's it! Thanks, Sophia.
A Summer to Die,
her first book, is still one of my all-time favorites. Still makes me cry, too. And
Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye
(about an adopted girl who goes in search of her birth mother) is just as good.
But those were my YA era. I didn't keep up after that -- I've still never read
The Giver,
although I'd like to.
The Giver was dystopia before it was a thing in YA. The same with MT Anderson's Feed which is Ah-May-ZING.
I'm swiping my way through a book written by the parent of a former student. Not impressed and should just abandon. Then I'm going to read Wildwood, which is middle grade fiction I think.
Some days, I miss reading for the awards committee because it forced me to increase my breadth of what I read in middle grades fiction and YA.
Wait--so all YA dystopias *are* the same, or they might as well be the same? That's what I don't understand. If you keep selling A as B, you do risk a backlash.
Seriously? This is Hollywood. Instead of development hell, this is development fast-track to jump on the pile. Does this really surprise you?
I should add, that I'm in the middle of (and enjoying the hell out of) TALES FROM DEVELOPMENT HELL, which has my Hollywood cynicism on code red.
I suspect there's a companion book that could be written such as TALES FROM DEVELOPMENT TOO-FAST TRACK for getting like minded movies out for things that were phenoms.
