05-08-2012, 06:22 PM | #26 |
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Yay!
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05-10-2012, 03:46 AM | #27 |
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So I've finished. I will enclose two different reviews in two different spoiler boxes. The first is spoiler-free, the second is not. Both are pretty short, because that's how I roll.
Spoiler: show SPOILER version. Spoiler: show And there you have it.
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05-10-2012, 09:21 PM | #29 |
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His Dark Materials went from really good to really strange and ended badly, but that's a topic for another day/thread. I do agree with you about the not-quite-legendary status of the book, though (any reason you put that in a spoiler when we have a
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05-11-2012, 09:22 PM | #32 |
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Same here. But The action starts much later
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05-11-2012, 11:15 PM | #33 |
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Mockingjay is weird in that it's trying to fill in all the holes that she never really covered in any good detail really quickly. As much world building as Catching Fire tried to do, it didn't really do that much and Mockingjay is kind of a last-ditch attempt to put all the cards on the table before she starts the action.
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05-19-2012, 12:24 PM | #34 |
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Mockingjay starts slow, since the author tries to develop the characters'personalities more and what has happened to them over the year. It gets good halfway through the book though, don't worry
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05-26-2012, 10:27 AM | #36 |
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I feel like it should've been 4 books so that Mockingjay has more time to explain stuff, and it allows the war to be a little longer and possibly allow Katniss to travel to more districts besides
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05-27-2012, 02:06 AM | #37 |
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Thanks, Charm, for spoiling which districts she ends up going to.
Anyway, I have finished the first two books and am a few chapters into Mockingjay, and I can safely say a few things about the series as far as I've gone. One, while this may not be the best series I've ever read, it is still consistently good, and only gets more interesting with each book, something many series cannot claim. Two, the big downside I find with the books is that they are PREDICTABLE, and I have only been caught off guard a couple times, usually able to see most of the way through the books. While this may or may not be due to intentional foreshadowing, there is WAY too much of it to not be able to know how the rest of the book is going to go by the time you're halfway through. If I had to rate it so far, it would get an 8/10, great read, but not legendary. We'll see where I stand after finishing Mockingjay. |
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I just had to say this one thing, even though I finished reading ages ago now...
Haymitch reminds me very heavily of our own Mozz. |
07-05-2012, 08:34 PM | #40 |
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I loved the first two books, and the third one was okay. It could've been a little better, I think.
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08-04-2012, 04:47 AM | #41 |
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I don't care if I'm really late finishing this triology because I need to talk about it so I'm bumping this old thread D:
I finally finished Mockingjay today, after reading The Hunger Games and Catching Fire in like April/May and then getting distracted with work/life for so long I almost forgot I had a third one to read. Also the first film was really good. It was really well directed, it had a brilliant score, most of the changes I actually preferred and they really captured the scenery perfectly. But I don't know if I'm actually excited for the sequel. And Mockingjay doesn't need to be two films, I hate how people now think that's a good idea. It worked for Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, but I really don't see it for Mockingjay. It just seems unnecessary. But oh well. So I'm going to give my views + respond to some of the posts throughout this thread all in one big spoiler tag just incase: Spoiler: show |
04-15-2013, 12:02 AM | #43 |
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Well, UPN actually just ate the last post I tried to make, so, to sum it up:
It looks really amazing and I can't wait, but at the same time I'm afraid of the liberties they're going to take that will be drastically different from how things happen in the book. |
04-15-2013, 01:25 AM | #44 |
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Goddamn that was actually really, really good looking. I can't wait.
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10-31-2013, 05:27 PM | #45 |
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This trailer isn't particularly new any more but I thought it was worth sharing when I saw it in the cinema yesterday:
So Catching Fire looks amazing to be honest. Pre-movie thoughts anyone? Excited? Displeased? Worried? And warning movie spoilers kinda: Spoiler: show Last edited by Torkoal Stu; 10-31-2013 at 05:37 PM. |
11-01-2013, 06:23 PM | #46 |
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11-09-2013, 09:34 AM | #47 |
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The first movie? Great, minus the shaky-Cloverfield-camera.
The second movie has no shaky-camera-BlairWitch camera work? I can only see greatness from this vantage point. |
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