upon rereading, this whole comment has so many spoilers for the trilogy that anyone who hasn't read all three Hunger Games books should probably not look. also, holy shit this is a long first comment to be leaving on your journal. I apologize in advance.
re: clothes in the Hunger Games
I knowwwww. I keep thinking about how great it would be to write a Project Runway-esque sort of AU within the context of the series with Cinna as the ultimate winner of his season. Or maybe not a reality show as aired, but that kind of competition because man, I just really loved Cinna and wanted to see so much more from him.
Do you have any ficrecs for Peeta or Gale or Katniss (or Finnick and Annie) fic? I don't care about pairings, I just want more of the worlddddd.
The third book was so "..." to me. It isn't even that it was depressing or the ending, it was just sort of ... I kept finding myself wondering what the actual point was. The Peeta plotarc was completely ridic. I would have liked it if it'd happened in the second book, for instance, and we spent the entire third book gradually overcoming it as well, but at the time I kept wondering if this was a cheap excuse to get Katniss and Gale together. I felt cheated by what happened to Finnick, and OKAY PRIM WAS SO RIDIC. like. I liked that Prim wasn't part of Katniss's idealized happy ending, because that is some neat narrative circularity and also I just really enjoy stories where everything is ultimately futile, but it felt like she was being fridged just for the sake of more trauma, which ... no. ALSO WTF THAT WAS THE LAMEST WAY EVER TO RESOLVE A LOVE TRIANGLE AND I DIDN'T EVEN CARE WHO KATNISS ENDED UP WITH.
Also, the epilogue. I am not sure what to say about the epilogue. On the one hand, I kind of want future fic about growing up as Katniss's kids because you have to imagine they would be pretty powerful political symbols as well and people would try to use them for that. On the other hand I can't get over the way that the text was like, 'lol, Katniss doesn't want kids but she had them anyway for Peeta'. Really?
re: Feed
The ending gutted me toooooo. I didn't like most of the book--I picked it up mainly because I'd heard people comparing it to World War Z, and I spent most of the book going really? really? really? The bad guy is pretty obvious, like you said, and much of the book read as a very obvious commentary on the American political climate under Bush to me. (And I mean, I suspect I am politically very close to where Mira Grant is, and I grew up liberal in a political climate surrounded by people like the bad guy, but ...) I'm not sure how much of this is explicitly didactic intent, and how much is just author world view seeping in.
...... and then I hit the ending and literally started sobbing in the middle of a bookstore cafe. THAT ENDING, AUGH. So good T___________T
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Date: 2010-11-07 05:09 pm (UTC)re: clothes in the Hunger Games
I knowwwww. I keep thinking about how great it would be to write a Project Runway-esque sort of AU within the context of the series with Cinna as the ultimate winner of his season. Or maybe not a reality show as aired, but that kind of competition because man, I just really loved Cinna and wanted to see so much more from him.
Do you have any ficrecs for Peeta or Gale or Katniss (or Finnick and Annie) fic? I don't care about pairings, I just want more of the worlddddd.
The third book was so "..." to me. It isn't even that it was depressing or the ending, it was just sort of ... I kept finding myself wondering what the actual point was. The Peeta plotarc was completely ridic. I would have liked it if it'd happened in the second book, for instance, and we spent the entire third book gradually overcoming it as well, but at the time I kept wondering if this was a cheap excuse to get Katniss and Gale together. I felt cheated by what happened to Finnick, and OKAY PRIM WAS SO RIDIC. like. I liked that Prim wasn't part of Katniss's idealized happy ending, because that is some neat narrative circularity and also I just really enjoy stories where everything is ultimately futile, but it felt like she was being fridged just for the sake of more trauma, which ... no. ALSO WTF THAT WAS THE LAMEST WAY EVER TO RESOLVE A LOVE TRIANGLE AND I DIDN'T EVEN CARE WHO KATNISS ENDED UP WITH.
Also, the epilogue. I am not sure what to say about the epilogue. On the one hand, I kind of want future fic about growing up as Katniss's kids because you have to imagine they would be pretty powerful political symbols as well and people would try to use them for that. On the other hand I can't get over the way that the text was like, 'lol, Katniss doesn't want kids but she had them anyway for Peeta'. Really?
re: Feed
The ending gutted me toooooo. I didn't like most of the book--I picked it up mainly because I'd heard people comparing it to World War Z, and I spent most of the book going really? really? really? The bad guy is pretty obvious, like you said, and much of the book read as a very obvious commentary on the American political climate under Bush to me. (And I mean, I suspect I am politically very close to where Mira Grant is, and I grew up liberal in a political climate surrounded by people like the bad guy, but ...) I'm not sure how much of this is explicitly didactic intent, and how much is just author world view seeping in.
...... and then I hit the ending and literally started sobbing in the middle of a bookstore cafe. THAT ENDING, AUGH. So good T___________T