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.
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
DawnK - Nov 10, 2010 7:58:59 am PST #12889 of 28611
giraffe mode
§ ita § - Nov 10, 2010 8:07:23 am PST #12890 of 28611
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
tiggy - Nov 10, 2010 8:32:37 am PST #12891 of 28611
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
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.
zuisa - Nov 10, 2010 9:34:47 am PST #12892 of 28611
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
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.
zuisa - Nov 12, 2010 2:43:18 am PST #12893 of 28611
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Sorry for the spammy Hunger Games serial posting! I just don't know anyone else who has read them, really.
I have about 100 pages of Catching Fire left and I have a really easy substituting gig today but I am terrified to start reading because I don't want to break down weeping in front of all the students. So far I've only cried reading this one once, but. Man. Talk about bleak.
I frequently want to just slam the book shut and yell AND THEN PEETA AND KATNISS LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER THE END.
Kat - Nov 12, 2010 5:13:43 am PST #12894 of 28611
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Oh Zuisa.... Mockingbird is the bleakest of the three.
Amy - Nov 12, 2010 5:31:23 am PST #12895 of 28611
Because books.
Oh god, don't tell me that. I'm halfway through Catching Fire.
tiggy - Nov 12, 2010 5:32:18 am PST #12896 of 28611
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Mockingjay was my least favorite. it's definitely the bleakest.
tiggy - Nov 12, 2010 5:33:42 am PST #12897 of 28611
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
if you're into fanvids where people take footage from other movies to make a fake trailer for another movie, you should watch this Hunger Games fanvid. [link]
Steph L. - Nov 12, 2010 6:55:22 am PST #12898 of 28611
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Seriously. Mockingjay is dark dark darkity dark with a side of despair. Mockingjay makes the first 2 books look like laugh riots.