Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Not an Uglies fan because Tally was so irritating.
I think the part of the Uglies trilogy I liked the most was the beginning of Pretties, when Tally is a Pretty and everything is funtimes.
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?
Yes, definitely more like The Giver, but, you know, with an ending. To the first book at least. Like The Hunger Games, the third book was a big disappointment as the plot and world-building became needlessly complicated and convoluted. Not as big a drop-off perhaps as THG, but that had a lot farther to fall.