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[aidenfire]

Ugh I had like four paragraphs written and dreamwidth freaked out and ate it :////. I'll try to recreate!

So, Hunger Games!

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[nadia_skye]

Ooh, Great Expectations is good! Do that.

[aidenfire]

I'll start with that! How are you? (lol, typed who are you first. Different question!)

[nadia_skye]

:) I am me! I think. Most of the time. There are definitely days when I am not me, but those days are luckily few and far between. :D I am ready for this semester to be over, is what I am. So much work! So many projects! So much time in my apartment! So ready to go for a good long walk! So many bibliographies to annotate! On the plus side, I have just figured out how to acquire new fonts and add them to keynote presentations and webpages (hint: it's really, really easy -- wish I'd looked it up years ago), which makes me slightly less grumpy about all the work there is to do.

I'd rather be back in California! Only a 22 hour drive from Montreal...nbd, right? Keep an eye out for jobs for me. :)

[tipgardner]

I agree with most of your comments on Hunger Games. I think that Gale is too soft, too. I do think they could have used another line or three from Katniss to Prim and from Katniss to Rue to cement the sisterly feeling and the your-my-surrogate-Primness for the audience. I think they really illustrated Katniss as head of house/mum, but not the tremendous sense of love and sisterhood that she feels for/with Prim and then how she transfers that to Rue. I actually think they did a good job of subtlely conveying her feelings towards Rue, but this is one time when I think bluntness might've paid off a bit more.

GoT, all agreed. I know from an interview with GRRM that he feels that the time was terribly bleak and grim and that that's a big part of the point he likes to make in his books. FWIW. :-/

Good on you! Both classics for a reason! Light in August is one of my favs, but you're not going to go wrong with a fine bloke like Dickens or with Steinbeck.

[aidenfire]

I agree, about the Katniss-Prim Katniss-Rue dynamic. Rue's death was tragic because she was young, and sweet, and innocent (and don't even get me started on all the people who are ~offended~ that she was black, ugh), but it was also tragic because in Katniss' head, she was being substituted for Prim. This whole situation, with both Rue and Prim, was one of the places where not being inside Katniss' head was a detriment for the movie.

Well, if bleak is the point he's intended to make, he definitely made it. Geez.

I think I'll start with Great Expectations, and then hit up some Steinbeck. It's so nice to stretch my brain! My current job isn't particularly intellectually stimulating most of the time, and I miss being in school. In a lot of ways I'm just doing my own mini-course (Survey of Great Literature You Missed Because Everyone Assumed You'd Already Read It 101? hah).