I'm a completeist. And, I admit, I have a certain amount of nostalgia for those books. I started reading them when I was...probably 10? So I will pony up the $25 every decade or so, just to see what happens.

I've certainly spent more money on worse things!

FWIW, I didn't mind the last one, but Plains of Passage was pretty boring. I just wanted to see what happened when they got back to France and Jondalar's family.

And when I was younger, I loved all of the detailed information about the Ice Age and herbalism and survival and such. Now? I'ma skip it: "Blah, blah, boneset, blah, blah, comfrey...I've read all your damn books, woman! I know how she sets a frickin' leg!"

I've read all your damn books, woman! I know how she sets a frickin' leg!

Ha!

That was one of my biggest problems with that last book--it was just a rehash of so many things she'd already covered, from botany and Stone Age healing practices to all of the characters' personal issues. I was just so sick of it all, and the fact that it was written in a mindnumbingly boring fashion didn't help anything.

I'm only 20 chapters into the first Hunger Games book and it already turned me into an emotional mess.

understandable, zuisa! i was reading it at work one day and got to a part that made me cry. i had to turn around to make sure no one could see.

When I was reading last night I got to the part where Rue dies and Katniss sings to her and oh my goodness was I a mess. I hear that the other two books in the trilogy don't exactly get any happier so I am prepared for lots of sadness in my very near future.

I was reading Catching Fire during Sara's swimming lesson last week, and got to a part that absolutely shocked me -- like take my breath away shock -- and teared up.

Luckily, it was so humid in there I don't think anyone noticed.

zuisa, I got to that part while I was eating lunch at Chipolte. Thankfully I could cover the tears with a fake hot salsa cough. Man, I finally had to not read them while out at lunch 'cause you never know when a gut punch is coming.

I read the second one on a really bad day and wept for miles. I'd like to call it healthy and cathartic, but I don't even know.

that part killed me too, zuisa. i'm really fighting the urge to re-read all of them. i have a habit of zooming through books and then if i love them i instantly want to re-read.

I just finished the first book. Wow was that an emotional roller coaster. When they ever announced that there could only be one winner after all, I think I nearly died. I have the next book already but I think I need a break from the stress.