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[tabacoychanel]

Day 19 - A book that disappointed you

Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay. It had to be said. I don't actually have any criticism of the book itself, and I am by turns gobsmacked by and unspeakably grateful for the amount of fannish activity that it has generated, but. But. There are a couple of things going on. I think, first of all, it's much easier to

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[misstopia]

I never read the book but I ADORE the Murder movie, it's just one of my absolute favorite things to watch. And I love Michael York in the 70s ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

[tabacoychanel]

ahhhh you should read it agatha christie sooooo amazing

i know right? i saw him in cabaret and that was it for me. Although Vanessa Redgrave/Ingrid Bergman/Sean Connery/everybody else was pretty awesome in Murder on the Orient Express too.

[misstopia]

My mom has like everything she's ever written, so maybe when I visit her :D

AND in Three/Four Musketeers, I loved those movies (though it was first and foremost Faye Dunaway who was divine at the time). And YESSSSS the whole cast of Murder was just fabutastic ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

[hamsterwoman]

Yay, more book meme from you!

I've been cautiously watching everything my flist has had to say about the various Hunger Games books, because I feel like I need to read them, but also have a sneaking suspicion that I might not like them as much... :/

[tabacoychanel]

i knew it! i bet you've been spoiled rotten by now. while i was disappointed with mockingjay i don't think i know anybody with a pulse who didn't find books 1 & 2 compulsively readable, so get thee to a bookstore dear. you'll like the first two i promise.

[haremstress]

I thought Mockingjay kind of dragged, at least in the first half, but I was still satisfied with how it wrapped things up. But after all, [spoiler: I'm a Katniss/Peeta shipper like whoa, so.]

Mostly I'm just commenting to say that (1) your icon is hot and (2) your YA fiction tag is... well, hot.

[tabacoychanel]

heee thanks. you know, i used to ship them like burning and now i ... don't? i dunno i think they're cute and everything, but seriously mockingjay was like a wet blanket thrown over my entire perception of the series, including any shipping tendencies i may have had.

[meretricula]

least favorite book in the trilogy, as well. idk, really, and they're still probably the first books I've wanted to read so badly that I actually gave in and shelled out for hardcover copies in several years (because I always get the Novik books for my birthday hurrrr), but I just thought that Mockingjay was a let-down. and the very end had that whole Harry Potter Epilogue feeling to me, where it fast-forwards to "oh hai yeah we got married, had kids, look at us we're so domestic!!!" I felt like neither book needed that. it ties off the loose threads too securely, if that makes any sense.

[tabacoychanel]

hmmmm. it wasn't quite like the HP epilogue. i felt like rowling was trying to tidy things up, whereas i felt like collins actually had a point that she was trying to make about war and children and the sins of the fathers and whatnot. the thing is, i didn't find her point particularly palatable or convincing.

ahahahah when i was a young 'un i used to ask for the animorphs books for my bday. every year. preferably a boxed set. christmas is coming up and i've been sliding in hints here and there that i want a barca kit lolololol because i can't afford one atm, i'm saving up for a macbook!

[meretricula]

mm, yeah, idk. I feel like to make that point she needed to spend more than a throwaway page and a half on it. >_>;;

omg, barca kit for christmas! ~grabbyhands~ haha I promised my rl bff a torres jersey for christmas since I was coming to england but JEEZ they're expensive. if she gets that it's her bday and christmas for at least another year. XD

[tabacoychanel]

no i meant that it was a part of a larger point about children being our (their) (everyone's) vulnerability. and how katniss had to learn to lower her defenses and let ~love~ in. sumfink like that anywy.

omg i dun know if i'm going to get it but if i do i dunno whose number to get??? well actually i think bojan gets no love, so i might get a bojan one. i heard somewhere that liverpool kits are 20% off. maybe just in spain though? i think the girl who posted about it was from spain. that's really depressing, i don't know whether to laugh or cry or to try to get the discount or what.

[lady_padme]

I agree with you on Mockingjay. I bought Hunger Games the day after Mockingjay came out and then finished HG in one day, ran to the bookstore before closing to buy Catching Fire only to discover the store had run out of copies, then went to another store the next day to get CF and Mockingjay together. Read CF in 2 more days and then Mockingjay. The first two books I've already reread about 10 times because they really hit some nerve with me, but the third book is just....blah. It's just too much double crossing and intrigue. Too much ugliness. Even the first two with their ugly themes had some moments of happiness and good. The only happiness in the third book that I can remember was Finick and Annie's wedding. Even the end, after it's all over and Katniss is looking back, watching with her kids, is not happy for me. And that left me feeling dissatisfied. Oh well. Two out of three ain't bad...

[tabacoychanel]

omg i was the same way, except i read the first two in may-ish, and then had to wait three months for mockingjay. but yes, definitely a huge let-down from the level of tension/investment i was experiencing with the first two. i dunno i felt like she really made the most of her background as a screenwriter, especialling in THG some of the scenes were so visual and the crescendo of the action was so well orchestrated, and then bam. mockingjay. not what i expected/wanted at all. also she could have done so much more with annie, why is annie little more than a prop, why can't she have an actual personality.