Not an Uglies fan because Tally was so irritating.
Gunn: We open a can of Machiavelli on his ass. Harmony: It's Matchabelli, Einstein, and it doesn't come in a can.
'Soul Purpose'
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 6:39:30 pm PDT #21100 of 28374
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Steph L. - Jul 15, 2013 6:57:44 pm PDT #21101 of 28374
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 28374
"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 28374
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 28374
"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 28374
Because books.
What is the trilogy Oryx and Crake is part of?
Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2013 7:41:41 am PDT #21106 of 28374
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*~.
Amy - Jul 16, 2013 7:48:04 am PDT #21107 of 28374
Because books.
I know who Margaret Atwood is.
Toddson - Jul 16, 2013 7:49:30 am PDT #21108 of 28374
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
it's ~*literature*~
huh ... so THAT's how you do sarcasm font
Kate P. - Jul 16, 2013 8:08:36 am PDT #21109 of 28374
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Oryx & Crake is the first book, the second is The Year of the Flood, and MaddAddam is the third, coming out this fall.