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[wackyweasel]

I've been considering a post on Things I Need to Stop Mixing Up Because They are Not the Same, but then today I got blindsided by a stomach bug, which inadvertently gave me a different thing to write about.

(In case anyone's curious, the things I need to stop mixing up include:

• The Clash and The Cure
• Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde (my sincere

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The Hunger Games

[auntjane]

Sorry to hear you've been ill! Hope you are better by now.

I think it was your blog where I first heard of The Hunger Games, and I finally finished the trilogy last night. What do you think of the movie casting? I am dubious about the choices for Cinna and Peeta, but everyone else looks great and the choice for Haymitch is genius.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-meet-hunger-games-pictures,0,5362958.photogallery

Re: The Hunger Games

[wackyweasel]

Aren't the books amazing? Well, I at least love the first one unabashedly. I felt the second one had a bit of second-book-in-a-trilogy going on, and the third is darker than I can completely enjoy. But the first one I love.

I was one of those people who uttered mutinous murmurs when they cast a (blonde!) white girl as Katniss. Based on the descriptions of "olive skin" and dark hair, I'd pictured her as vaguely Asian-ish, but with gray eyes (felt similar about Haymitch). (I sort of assume that the world of the books is one in which ethnic groups have blurred around a bit.) It wasn't that I thought Katniss couldn't be white, but her original casting call said, "white or any other race", as if white were the preference, and I definitely had issues with that. I've heard this actress is very talented, though - haven't seen her in anything - so I'm hopeful she'll do a good job