That's it! Thanks, Sophia.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
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."
Kat - Jul 15, 2013 5:08:55 pm PDT #21090 of 28701
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Amy - Jul 15, 2013 5:11:15 pm PDT #21091 of 28701
Because books.
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.
Kat - Jul 15, 2013 5:20:08 pm PDT #21092 of 28701
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
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.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 15, 2013 5:35:55 pm PDT #21093 of 28701
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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?
Frankenbuddha - Jul 15, 2013 5:38:33 pm PDT #21094 of 28701
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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.
Polter-Cow - Jul 15, 2013 6:02:35 pm PDT #21095 of 28701
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The same with MT Anderson's Feed which is Ah-May-ZING.
Oh boy, I disagree. I wanted to like it! It has a great premise!
The Uglies series was pre-Hunger Games YA dystopia that seemed to be pretty popular but didn't make as big a splash, but Scott Westerfeld said that the books have been selling a lot more since Hunger Games.
Steph L. - Jul 15, 2013 6:06:23 pm PDT #21096 of 28701
That which does not kill you should RUN
The Uglies series was pre-Hunger Games YA dystopia that seemed to be pretty popular but didn't make as big a splash
Loved that series. Although I loved Westerfeld's Midnighters series even more.
Polter-Cow - Jul 15, 2013 6:12:44 pm PDT #21097 of 28701
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I liked it all right. I found it kind of mediocre overall, and I didn't really like the protagonist. The fourth book was actually my favorite.
Steph L. - Jul 15, 2013 6:18:07 pm PDT #21098 of 28701
That which does not kill you should RUN
I didn't really like the protagonist
Tally is kind of insufferable. I just loved the worldbuilding a lot. And I loved Zane. I actually liked Tally when she was with Zane.
Kat - Jul 15, 2013 6:39:29 pm PDT #21099 of 28701
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
P-C, I read Feed as opposed to listening to it and had a very different experience than you did which makes sense. Also, I think I read it right after I had read Jennifer Government which I also enjoyed. I think that I was in my phase of corporate takeover dystopias.
I spend a lot of time with dystopias, and slightly less time with post-apocalyptic stories. I still haven't finished Oryx and Crake because it was just so ridiculously violent.