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dangermousie) wrote2012-02-06 01:05 pm
dangermousie) wrote2012-02-06 01:05 pm
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I must be the sole person who much preferred Catching Fire to Hunger Games. I didn't care for HG at all, and thought it was a vastly inferior Battle Royale rip-off, but I am quite in love with CF - it has its own story and there are actually emotional stakes as we get to know all those fighting in the arena (my big complaint in the first book - everyone except Katniss and possibly Peeta are barely cardboard cut-outs). Plus, there are nuances!
I know people complain that we are stuck in Katniss' head and thus don't see the big picture of the rebellion or anything, but I am actually fine with it. Let's face it, if the book was in omniscient third-person or with a narrator like Haymitch or even Finnick, it wouldn't be YA at all. I don't think Suzanne Collins has the chops to write a bloody adult epic (and she wisely knows it) but, more importantly, that is neither what she set up or contracted to do, not what her supposed audnce of 14-yr-olds could like. It would be another type of novel entirely. Would I love it? Sure. It would need to be done by Dan Simmons or similar though, and I have yet to see Hyperion Cantos in the YA aisle.
I did find 'which guy shall I pick' boring, but it's a tiny part of the novel, so it's easy to ignore.
Me = contrarian.
I know people complain that we are stuck in Katniss' head and thus don't see the big picture of the rebellion or anything, but I am actually fine with it. Let's face it, if the book was in omniscient third-person or with a narrator like Haymitch or even Finnick, it wouldn't be YA at all. I don't think Suzanne Collins has the chops to write a bloody adult epic (and she wisely knows it) but, more importantly, that is neither what she set up or contracted to do, not what her supposed audnce of 14-yr-olds could like. It would be another type of novel entirely. Would I love it? Sure. It would need to be done by Dan Simmons or similar though, and I have yet to see Hyperion Cantos in the YA aisle.
I did find 'which guy shall I pick' boring, but it's a tiny part of the novel, so it's easy to ignore.
Me = contrarian.