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.
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Polter-Cow - Jul 15, 2013 6:12:44 pm PDT #21097 of 28373
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Steph L. - Jul 15, 2013 6:18:07 pm PDT #21098 of 28373
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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 28373
"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.
Kat - Jul 15, 2013 6:39:30 pm PDT #21100 of 28373
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Not an Uglies fan because Tally was so irritating.
Steph L. - Jul 15, 2013 6:57:44 pm PDT #21101 of 28373
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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.
megan walker - Jul 15, 2013 9:47:20 pm PDT #21102 of 28373
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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.
lisah - Jul 16, 2013 5:31:08 am PDT #21103 of 28373
Punishingly Intricate
Sorry if I missed it but, speaking of YA dystopian fiction, has anyone read Julianna Baggot's Pure?
Kat - Jul 16, 2013 6:49:40 am PDT #21104 of 28373
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
My other issue is that I tend not to finish the trilogy of a dystopian. I read the first book and I'm usually okay with being done. This is perhaps another thing keeping me from Oryx and Crake. I finished the second book first and I am not especially interested in going back to book one.
Amy - Jul 16, 2013 6:55:25 am PDT #21105 of 28373
Because books.
What is the trilogy Oryx and Crake is part of?
Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2013 7:41:41 am PDT #21106 of 28373
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It's Margaret Atwood, so it's not sci-fi, it's ~*literature*~.