What've you all been reading? In your book clubs? On your own? We are reading the Hunger Games for ours and I am over half way through number 3. Our upcoming books are To Kill A Mockingbird, Rebekah-by Orson Scott Card, and another one I can't remember the name of. Maybe I remember the first two because I've read them both already, the first a number of times. Both I like.
People in my book club are saying Hunger Games is harder for them to get through than the Glass Castle was. I disagree. The Glass Castle was real. The Hunger Games aren't. It wasn't hard for me to keep it in story form. It's when I got to the second book that it was harder to not "think" more about it. Government control in EVERY aspect of your life....it's bothered me quite a bit more than the first. The third I'm just trying to get through. It's back to a story for me but with too much manipulating of people. It's just too unreal to bother me like Catching Fire did. Why so? I'm still not sure. I can't help comparing the main character Katniss to Bella Swan from Twilight. Both teenage girls caught in some weird love triangle that everyone else can see but themselves. Both a low self image that drives me crazy, esp. Bella's. I'm getting tired of Katniss moping around all the time and going back and forth between love sick teenage girl-which she won't admit to herself-and oh woe is me.
I hope I haven't said anything that would ruin any of the books. I'm assuming you have all read them because our book club always seems to be a little "behind the times" as far as the current popular book to read. We don't read a lot of new books. It's generally classics and oldies but goodies but once in a while we throw in something "new". Like when we read Fablehaven when book 4 was coming out. Same thing here with Hunger Games...
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I'll comment on my own post. I finished Mockingjay yesterday and hated it. That's all.
Ha ha! You and Melody are the same. Melody wanted to shake Katniss and tell her to get a grip. I didn't feel nearly that strongly, and felt more sympathetic-- "Wow, this girl has been through so much-- I'd a sobbing mess all of the time if I had gone through the same."
I love how we all have different opinions of it. I agree with being able to read The Hunger Games in it's context: it was make-believe. I apprecitate how it got me to think about what could happen if we let the government control to many aspects of our lives. {Much like the Shadow Children series, which I also highly recommend!} Obviously these situations are taken to an extreme, but still, good food for thought.
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