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What the fuck did I just read?
This is, without a doubt, pretty much the "Requiem for a dream" of youth literature.
It IS a requiem for a dream, actually.
Suzanne Middlename Collins!
I was ready to hand off your writing as entertaining enough, ramble on about your obvious roots in Telly writing as evident in your snappy action sequences, your brash facts, your cinematic moments.
But... Boy Howdy, these final 50 pages or so. Fuck me sideways and call me Sally, that was... different.
No the bit where Coin turns out to be just as much of an oportunistic, calculating, cold dictator as Snow. Because that is the way of the world and I saw it coming over 300 pages ago.
History is defined by the victor, there is hardly ever any "right" and so on and so forth.
But just... this book has balls as big as cantaloupes. Or Ovaries, I must say. The unflinching follow through on everybody's mental descent. Killing Finnick (the photo of Annie and Finnick's newborn son. Ouch.). Oh, right: Killing prim and hundred of Children along with her. That one. And the mass graves, and the scars, and the fact that Gale slots into the system apparently seamlessly.
Hm, can't think of any more details, now. But let's talk.
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Mood:
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Listening to: Vampire Weekend
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Reading: Mockingjay
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Watching: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt1
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Playing: "find the life"....
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Eating: Saaaaaalaaaaads.
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Drinking: Starbux Starbux and then some Starbux
Killing Finnick though. That was ouch. Reminded me of Lupin and Tonks' death ._.
And Prim's death wasn't that horrible for me, partly because I was desperately hoping it wasn't so and partly because it really didn't sink in until Katniss and Buttercup had their screaming/wailing/crying match. I nearly broke down right there. I don't know if that was the best or worst part of me from the book, or if it was just so like me that it's burrowed into my brain and refused to leave. Good gods.
all i am gonna say is, katniss is completely and utterly a dissapointment. this character, who was strong, independent and all together amazing girl (though ofcourse she had her imperfections too, adding to why she was such an awesome character) and by the end, i hated her. i hated the choices she'd made and how she reacted to things and the fact that prim died made me want to throw the book away. what on EARTH was this entire series of events FOR then? isn't the entire plot of the books based upon the fact that prims name was pulled, and katniss loved her so much she stepped forward? what happened to that girl? why was everythign katniss did to save her sister such a waste? awful, just awful this poor teenager deserved a MUCH better ending than that. she deserved her wildest dreams to come true, she deserved complete and blissful happiness, not this empty shell of a life without the one person she loved truly and completely. utterly ridicualous. i actually feel cheated by it, liek the whole thing was a joke. jsut... urgh, SUCH a let down on that part.
and, oh yeah, we'll just have the hunger games again, seems like a good idea. WTFRICK!!!!
and also also also...
PEETA WANTED KIDS. SO WE HAD THEM NOBIGDEAL.