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![]() yep, agree with you on that. Hunger games is awesome because it features brand new, interesting stuffs (annual anniversary in which teenagers participate in killing each other). Catching fire is a thumb-down compared to its prequel, nothing's mind-blowing. But it's a preparation for Mockingjay, so people has to read it if they don't want to miss such a terrific ending. The last book is much better than Hunger games, not because everything is brought to a peak, a crisis, but because it deepens the readers' thinking about that fictional world of Hunger Games event. Quote:
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![]() It doesn't blow my mind as it's supposed to. Maybe I expected too much, but so many people praise it and well, I'd just finished Hunger Games before reading it so I expected it to be super! And Kingkiller series was killing me: twice or even three times the length of Hunger Games! It took me 2 days of hard reading to finish a single book ![]() Ok it's a nice read though. Story in story. In Kingkiller, an innkeeper tells his apprentice and a chronicler the story of his life. It takes several days for him to finish the story, and in the meantime there are some strange creatures come into town, people die, army marches, a suspectous robbery... all these events imply that the innkeeper's life story should extend to the nowaday, his adventure hasn't quite ended. This is my review on the first book, I'll put it in the spoiler. Spoiler:
that made me stop reading it in the first place! I still can't bring myself to return, maybe it's a good idea to get paper and pencil to jot down the names and their relationships to help with remembering... |
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i'm thinking of starting a discussion later this week on the hunger games trilogy, not sure if there is one already but i know a lot of people have read it and i figure it'd be a decent discussion. there's a lot to the books. |
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i think harrelson is perfect for haymitch and jennifer lawrence will do a good job, there's a pic floating around of her. also lenny as cinna works in that flamboyant way. he'll do a good job, not what i expected but when he's all done up and being cinna i think it'll work well. also elizabeth banks as effie i think works really well too. stanley tucci as caeser is a bit off for me, maybe because i always pictured him more closely to richard dawson from the running man hahahah. anyway i think they'll all do great in the movies, you'll probably be surprised how well it works. and if it doesn't next year you can be the first to say "i told you so" lol. edit: although i'm not sure what the movie cast has to do with the book discussions. |
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The problem I'm having is that it wasn't seeming like a Book 1 of a series. They keep referencing events that happened before the book like you were supposed to know what happened. That sort of thing drives me crazy. I don't mind figuring out the past as a story goes along but I hate feeling like I'm missing something. I went onto Wikipedia and it looks like there was a novella written before Cry Wolf ("Alpha and Omega" (novella, published in On the Prowl (2007))). I figure I'm about to the part of the story where the present is outweighing the past but I was so frustrated I just put the book down. Ahh well. A few other books and I'll give it another go. rv |
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Pretty much anything by Clive Cussler.
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![]() (I'm not so sure that after 4 years waiting, I'll still remember all the important details required to read the last book. Of course it's ok to forget some nonsense details but if I forget them all, that would be reading the whole lengthy series again...) Quote:
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Can one read too much?
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As the latest Maisie Dobbs mystery is out, I thought it time to tackle last year's book: The Mapping of Love and Death. So far, it's okay, but in the back of my mind, I'm thinking about what next after it?
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Just finished "Townie" by Andre Dubus III, the best autobio I have ever read. A searing tale of growing up poor, with lots of alcohol, drugs, street fighting and barroom brawling that becomes a meditation on male violence. "Townie" is an honest, true story of how a man, who was very good at the dubious skill of brawling, discovered how to live with himself and love others. A really remarkable read. I stopped reading it only to sleep.
Before that I read "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell. Wow, can he write: different voices, different styles, leaps backwards and forwards in time. I really appreciated reading it on my Kindle (the first novel I'd read on it) because I could pop back to the first appearance of a character, or whatever, which is essential in this fine novel; I don't know how it would be reading it in a less-searchable, paper format. Right now I am reading Too Big To Fail about the sub-prime mortgage mess and bailout and wondering why class war hasn't broken out in the U.S.A. |
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LB's lolz Mutt Minion
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Been on an epic fantasy jag of late.
I highly recommend R. Scott Bakker's brilliant "Prince of Nothing" trilogy, among the most literate and compelling series of books in this genre that I have read in the last few years. Now I am hooked on Chris Wooding's "Braided Path" series at the moment. Slight OT: For those that have HBO and are GRRM fans - what do you think of the epic "Game Of Thrones" adaptation? Me? Best thing I have seen on TV in eons. Period. ![]() |
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