Atria35 (post: 1489679) wrote:I don't care for it. The prose is a little too direct and blunt, and there are some *very* obvious mistakes (you don't use the weapons in the way she's describing, you can't put a sleeping bag into a tree like that, and considering that she's put into a playing field that has no large bodies of water it's hilarious she hides in a willow tree.... which only grow by large amounts of water!)
Atria35 (post: 1489679) wrote:I don't care for it. The prose is a little too direct and blunt, and there are some *very* obvious mistakes (you don't use the weapons in the way she's describing, you can't put a sleeping bag into a tree like that, and considering that she's put into a playing field that has no large bodies of water it's hilarious she hides in a willow tree.... which only grow by large amounts of water!)
Hats wrote:"Frodo! Cast off your [s]sins[/s] into the fire!"
Esoteric (post: 1506452) wrote:Never read any of these books, but there are many species of willow and not all require a lake (although they all do require abundant ground water). In southern California, willows grow in some of the seasonal river beds (which are surface dry 8-11 months of the year but wet several feet down) and they are very bush-like (you could certainly hide in one).
Again, never read the books though. I don't suppose any characters chewed on the willow leaves for the salicylic acid (aspirin) in them? That would impress me.
Atria35 (post: 1489801) wrote:Heh. Maybe I've been hanging around too many people who play with weapons, then! I didn't catch the weapons until later in the series, near the end, but the willow tree I caught onto right away- I went to school where willow trees grew..... but only near the Bio pond. Get further away than 20-30 feet from that water, and they were nonexistant.
I'm not trying to make you want to read the book less, I'm just saying the third book seems to be either you like it or you hate it -- I very rarely meet someone in between. I have several friends from school and church who love the last book, it just wasn't to my liking.
xxEverBluexx (post: 1506515) wrote:There was at least one willow tree on my old block, and there weren't any bodies of water around...
A_Yellow_Dress (post: 1528065) wrote:I liked the Hunger Games, despite it's flaws. It was easy enough to inhale in a short amount of time. I agree with rocklobster] Killing off Prim was rather.... unnecessary. I wasn't able to develop any attachment to her, so the ending wasn't earthshaking. If Katniss would have died, this may have been different, as I think she got the most development as a character. [/spoiler]
A_Yellow_Dress (post: 1528065) wrote:[spoiler] Killing off Prim was rather.... unnecessary. I wasn't able to develop any attachment to her, so the ending wasn't earthshaking. If Katniss would have died, this may have been different, as I think she got the most development as a character. [/spoiler]
Winry (post: 1528069) wrote:I agree with you about the ending of the third book.
[spoiler] Prim's death was unnecessary. It felt like the only reason for killing her off was to solve the problem of who Katniss would end up with in the end (at least it did to me.) I just thought the ending was depressing... not that every ending has to be a happy one but it just didn't work for me in this series. [/spoiler]
Lynna (post: 1528136) wrote:My Explanation:
[Spoiler]Okay, so for one, I have to admit I wanted Peeta and Katniss together: I thought it was the better coupling by far. And although they were having to cope with all that they've been through, they were finding ways to heal and to recover from their experiences. Also, they were free. Even though it cost them so much,their children can live in safety, which I thought was partly symbolised by her daughter singing the meadow song. Remember how she always said she never wanted to have children for fear of them being taken by the Games? Now she doesn't have to go through that.[/spoiler]
Winry (post: 1529412) wrote:Actually...
[spoiler] I was rooting for her to end up with Gale. I knew it wasn't going to happen by the end of the first book though. I actually thought Gale was likely to die in the last book. Peeta's character was ok. I think him going crazy in the third book was a good twist because it made him a less predictable.
Finnick's death was horrible. There wasn't a lot of shock value because you almost didn't realize it happened because of how quick it happened. What about poor Anne? =(
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