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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.
  • Mood: Speechless
  • Listening to: Vampire Weekend
  • Reading: Mockingjay
  • Watching: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt1
  • Playing: "find the life"....
  • Eating: Saaaaaalaaaaads.
  • Drinking: Starbux Starbux and then some Starbux
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:icontrishna87:
=trishna87 Jan 9, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Dude... I mean I have to give her kudos for offing so many characters. But I did not like how Gale/Katniss/Peeta resolved. There was no resolution for Gale/Katniss.. he just left. That felt.. incomplete :/ ... And Katniss and Peeta just... I was waiting for some big epic romantic scene where Peeta completely remembers how much he loves her and sheet.. never happened :/ ... they just got together because it seemed like there was no one else left... just resigned to each other's company :/
Killing Finnick though. That was ouch. Reminded me of Lupin and Tonks' death ._.
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~Brickwall847 Dec 28, 2010  Student Traditional Artist
I finally got the last two books for Christmas, and I spent the next three days devouring them between family events.

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.
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:iconkava-nii-chan:
~Kava-Nii-Chan Dec 21, 2010  Student Photographer
When Prim died I had to re read that part because I was like wait whatttt? that can't be right! Did that really just happen?
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:iconjeryn-molly:
Yeah, it got real depressing at the end. I cried when Finnick died but I was too shocked to react at the Prim part. I liked the progression of the book itself because, like in real life, not everything has a happy ending so I didn't mind seeing Katniss go downhill like that. What I did mind was the ending how she just squished the next 20 years of their life into 4 pages. That just felt rushed.
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:iconsolemnlyswear22:
~solemnlyswear22 Dec 17, 2010  Student Photographer
yeah, a peice of me died inside when i finished mockingjay. i am re-reading them right now. on catching fire, started two days ago lol, but yeah i need to read it again before i keep talking about it. see you in a week?


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.
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:iconazaliafallen:
I kind of loved the fact that she made us hate her. It made the book that much better. Instead of just giving us what we wanted (Everybody happy government overthrown new shiny future, yay!) she ripped out our hearts and stepped on them again and again with that barely audible "squish." Frankly I loved it.
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~solemnlyswear22 Dec 19, 2010  Student Photographer
yeah, but when you really think about it, the message of the book completely and utterly fails in the end. its about war, and while showing that katniss loses everything in the end is realistic, it kind of completely defeats the purpose of fighting at all. whats there left to fight for, so whats the point, and i don't think thats a good message. i get why finnick and the others die, i do, even though it sucked it was needed. but prim dying means that it was all for nothing. and THAT is why ti sucks.
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:iconazaliafallen:
Maybe that's the purpose of the book. Maybe she was trying to point out that history books are always colored a certain way, but that doesn't mean that it was as bright and shiny as they say. I think rather than demotivate the future rebellions that may or may not take place, she was trying to warn people that things aren't always as simple as overthrowing big brother. People get hurt, they AWAYS get hurt in the end.
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:iconsolemnlyswear22:
~solemnlyswear22 Dec 27, 2010  Student Photographer
you do have a point there, but i just really really wish she'd gone a different direction.
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:iconnoxavis:
gah i hated the ending like wow man. i so wasnt prepaired for all the heart ache. i was so mad and sad for a few days like wtf was that and havent touched it since
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