I'm hesitant to read the third book of the HG trilogy, cuz I've heard it sucks.
But yeah, the movie is really really sad in certain bits, I dunno how they did it. Maybe it was the music or something..
The third book doesn't suck. It's very well written.It was merely very gritty. And the last 5% of the book (I can give a percentage because I was reading it on the kindle app for my phone literally everywhere I went and it gives you a percentage of how much you've read) was just written in a way that is interesting. It's extremely metaphorical and just throws the reader in a completely different direction. I still don't know if I liked the ending. I'll have to read it a second time. I was satisfied on some level, but I didn't feel she did justice to the personal lives of the three main characters Gale, Katnis, and Peeta. And the epilogue didn't sit well with me. It felt like she rather rushed the affair. And for me relationships and these personal little details are really important.
But maybe that was the point. She wanted our minds to fill in the blanks. In life a lot of loose threads are never snipped neatly so perhaps we were meant to be unsatisfied with the conclusion of the love-triangle. It was rather sad. But what made me cry was...of all things, a cat.
Anyway you should read it and decide for your self if it's sucky.
What is all the fuss about, not read the book, but went to see the movie, thought it was less than okay - a four out of ten. I mean it takes a fair bit of suspension of belief to imagine a time where ther would be a sport that involves children chosen/selected and pitted against each other to death in order to - I forget what the purpose was, but seriously...
I haven't seen the movie but yes you're right, it does take suspension of disbelief. However, in the book, you have to imagine that the setting and characters are compelling and so fleshed out that while a part of you might at first be hesitant to immerse yourself fully into that world, the author is good enough at the process of "world-building" that you eventually do get immersed despite how outlandish it might seem. The history of the hunger games and how they began is quite interesting and in the third book that is used effectively (I wont give spoilers away!).
Perhaps the film wasn't as good at that process
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