'cos it was clear that he had a thing for her and she knew he liked her, so basically she used that to survive.Originally Posted by Kadayi
Katniss is a horrible, horrible person.
'cos it was clear that he had a thing for her and she knew he liked her, so basically she used that to survive.
Katniss is a horrible, horrible person.
What?
Which YA books differ from that stuff?
Jim C. Hines' Princess series, Ari Marmell's Widdershins books, arguably Anne McCaffrey's Crystal Singer trilogy, Cinda Williams Chima's Seven Realms books and even Clive Barker's Abarat books allude to rape, not to mention they're definitely influenced by his horror works.
The CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore. Not recommended, unless you're a hormonal 14-year-old boy,
Yes, but I'm not on about how her character is portrayed, I'm on about his.
Why yes you're right I'm deliciously evil
Tradition is the tyranny of dead men
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He's like a lovestruck puppy. Katniss could boot him off a waterfall and he'd come back.
It isn't nearly as gut-wrenchingly horrifying as 1984, that's for sure. Brave New World come across as a 'mere' cautionary tale, whereas 1984 wants to grind your face into the mud until you acknowledge your own powerlessness. To put it another way, Brave New World was for me a mostly intellectual experience, whereas the greater part of 1984's effect on me was at the emotional level.
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The same is true for Animal Farm, I guess.
Eh. I understood both BNW and 1984 on an intellectual level - and the third in that dystopian trio would likely be We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - but for gut-wrenching, the first book that comes to mind is Burmese Days.
The baby of the trio is Nineteen Eighty-Four. If you merge We and Brave New World, chances are the offspring would be Orwell's book. It's got the looks of its mother (We), possibly its fathers attitude (Brave New World). BNW is, funnily enough, the only one of the three I've not read.
BNW reads like a critique of consumerism as a culture more than of totalitarianism as a mode of governance. At any rate.
Edit: Speaking of a reality comprised entirely of media marketing, there's also The Dick Gibson Show by Stanley Elkin.
See this is the problem, he's just too passive. Also I thought you'd like the character of Katniss tbh (strong, pragmatic determined female), what's with the hatin? Or do I need to read the rest of the trilogy to find out?
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Oh gee, I just can't wait to hear whether Althea will recommend the third book!
I recommend it solely on the basis that you'll want to finish the series and thus draw a line under it.
BNW reads like a critique of consumerism as a culture more than of totalitarianism as a mode of governance. At any rate.
I agree with this, a lot of the stuff that is famous to the book is actually really a small part of the book. I was surprised that it really is a escape romance novel set in a dystopian world with a little bit of social commentry in there. Its not what people think when they hear about it.
Two chapters of Catch-22 and all I could say is...... wat
Maybe I wasn't concentrating while I was reading it. I think I should get back on the last chapter.
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Nothing To Envy: Real Lives in North Korea by Ms. Barbara Demick.
This book is not available in local retails here for very obvious reason, but for whatever channels you obtain a copy of this book, the local authority doesn't give a damn. No stocking by local bookstores and they have done their work. Last week is the Golden Week associated with the Labor Day on 1st May, one of my friend visiting Hong Kong brought back this souvenir for me. It's the accounts of the interviews by Ms. Barbara Demick, a journalist with the L.A. Times newspaper, with North Korea's deflectors in South Korea, describing their lives back in North Korea. I am reading its first chapter, a deflected woman, who was a girl back then, talked about how she secretly dated a boy at nights by avoiding attentions from neighbors and their own families.
There was brief mentioning of the collapse of the North Korea's economy in the 1990s, which as Ms. Demick put it, was mainly the result of the termination of cheap oil supply from its big brother the USSR as a direct result of the downfall of the Soviet Union.
The second book is Catching Fire, the third is Mockingjay.
I think ...... wat was pretty much all I could say after finishing the whole thing, I really enjoyed it and it's very well written but I did find it quite hard to follow in a lot of places, stick it out though, it's worth it.
Pretty sure that's a spammer.
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