oldwomanc6 52 #1 March 15, 2012 My daughter has been bugging me to read this for what seems like forever. Well, I started it, and now can hardly put it down. Anyone else read this? Comments on the book? How about the upcoming movie? Speculation? Will it be good or a waste of money? Please, if you have a spoiler alert, advise ahead of the post lisa WSCR 594 FB 1023 CBDB 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtval 0 #2 March 15, 2012 1000+views and not one post? I think the main post would be "book?"My photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldwomanc6 52 #3 March 15, 2012 I think it must be some kind of record! lisa WSCR 594 FB 1023 CBDB 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #4 March 15, 2012 Quote I think it must be some kind of record! How the heck do ya read a record?! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hcsvader 1 #5 March 15, 2012 Just read the book recently. Think i finished it in a day. Looking forward to the movie.Have you seen my pants? it"s a rough life, Livin' the dream >:) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JackC1 0 #6 March 15, 2012 I've read the trilogy. Excellent books. I hope the movies are as good. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
amstalder 0 #7 March 15, 2012 I can't wait to see the movie. If the movie is half as good as the trailer, I think it'll be worth the money. I'm just bummed I have to wait an extra week to see it since I'm overseas (but I'm not complaining since it will actually be shown in our theater!!!). I didn't hear of the trilogy until the first movie trailer came out last fall. I put off reading the books for a month so I could read them after my graduation in December. I read them in three days I'm a fan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeJD 0 #8 March 15, 2012 I read the first one recently. Thought it was just ok, but had a bit of a 'young fiction' feel about it. Then I discovered that it was supposed to be young fiction, so it went up in my estimation. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
missbrz 0 #9 March 15, 2012 I thought they're wonderful! I haven't read the last book only because I have stuff to do and I know as soon as I pick it up I'll be dead to the world till its done The movie looks really good too. I can't wait to see it! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mrubin 0 #10 March 15, 2012 I read the first book and really enjoyed. I started the second book yesterday and have almost finished it."I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rick 67 #11 March 15, 2012 Read the first 2 I have the 3rd 1 but have not started it yet. I thought they were ok but being an old SOB it is hard to relate to the teenage girl main character.You can't be drunk all day if you don't start early! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TriGirl 318 #12 March 15, 2012 I first heard of it when I was home last, and saw the movie trailer. My sister informed me that the movie was based on these books, so I bought them all for my Nook. I read all three of them in about 2 months (I'm kind of busy!) I thought they were really well written. I knew at the time of purchase that the intended message was to teach teens about the effects of war. However, once I started reading, I thought they delivered that message to anyone. From the trailers, I have high expectations for the movies. I just hope mmy expectations aren't so high they can't be reached. We all know the book is always better than the movie, but here's hoping the movie is on par. See the upside, and always wear your parachute! -- Christopher Titus Shut Up & Jump! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldwomanc6 52 #13 March 16, 2012 I just finished the book, and all I can say is that I can hardly wait for the movie! That and I'm not above taking back the first page from Funks friend! lisa WSCR 594 FB 1023 CBDB 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ruleofpull 0 #14 March 16, 2012 The series has really gone viral in high schools. I had a copy in my classroom-it was the most read book (ever!) that I had students read outside of course readings-a record of 13 students, and 3 parents read it, and returned it... in less than 5 months, as I didn't get it until late October. Then it went "missing" in January (don't like it, but I know it's still being passed around). I then bought the trilogy, and have another copy of the first book. Both are out with students right now... Sadly, because I haven't had the chance, I haven't read it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldwomanc6 52 #15 March 16, 2012 Perhaps this book is a lesson in not forcing kids read only "classics". Not that there is anything wrong with them, but why not let kids read the books that will interest them? If we encourage them to do that, they may read a great deal more. lisa WSCR 594 FB 1023 CBDB 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #16 March 16, 2012 Quote Perhaps this book is a lesson in not forcing kids read only "classics". Not that there is anything wrong with them, but why not let kids read the books that will interest them? If we encourage them to do that, they may read a great deal more. Totally agree! I was an avid reader as a kid - part of that was because we lived in Greece from when I was age 5 to age 8, and at the time (late 70s) there wasn't much English language TV on for kids (except the Muppet Show! yay!). But we had a library available and boy did my brother and I read! After we moved back stateside, I continued to read a lot, and to be honest, a lot of it was "junk" reading. I appreciate the fact that my parents still let me read it, because it kept me reading actively and made reading something I had fun doing. Heck, even into early adulthood, I read more fluffy stuff than serious stuff, but in the last decade or so, I've revisited a lot of the classics and I read tons of more serious newer stuff (about 70% nonfiction, probably 30% fiction). The Hunger Games trilogy (I've just recently finished the first one and am eager to get the other two from the library when they're available) and the Harry Potter series are good examples of books that have turned a generation that's used to television and electronic devices on to reading. So they may not go down as "classic" literature... they're still getting people to crack a book!"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peanut_gallery 0 #17 March 16, 2012 Just finished the trilogy in audiobook form the other day, they were good and looking forward to the movie. I did like the first one more then the other two as a whole but they all were good. I don't read as much as I used to a couple years ago, tend to listen to audiobooks more lately. There was a awesome used book store where I used to live and ended up having so much credit built up with them that I no longer had to buy books. I'd go through 2 or three a week, trade them back in and pick up some more. I hardly read in high school but I have to agree that if they worked with newer books that would actually interest the students they would probably get more to actually read. Hell my class vetoed The Scarlet Letter when we were assigned it. Royally pissed off our english teacher but after a couple days of nobody even turning the cover she gave up and we just watched a movie (Monty Python and The Holy Grail) instead. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
missbrz 0 #18 March 16, 2012 Really? I thought the Scarlet Letter was one of the better classics we had to read. But when I was in high school, they were actually veering away from the classics. In freshman year our summer reading list was actually a lot of recent books from a bunch of different genres. I think a lot of people in my class read more because of that. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TKoontz 0 #19 March 16, 2012 Pretty good series all in all. The ending was a major letdown for me and completely went against everything I had been brought to believe about the main character and her moral standing. Complete 180. I won't go further as it would require a fairly large spoiler Also, as much as these books were intended for a 'younger audience' they were pretty horrific. I mean some of it was like reading a passage from the script of one of the Saw movies. I don't mind that, I think it's better at making the point about the horrors of sending young children by lottery to a gladiatorial arena (war I guess) but I just looked it up and it's rated PG-13. Pretty sure hollywood will have sterilized the hell out of it to reach the largest audience as possible and turn it into something...well Hollywood and cool and do their best to avoid any character analysis or personal growth story. I could be wrong, and I hope I am. Not that anyone is surprised by that but it irks me all the same. And I'll still go see it And yes, I'm very cynical. I make no apologiesFind your peace, though the world around you burns Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wolfriverjoe 1,523 #20 March 16, 2012 Quote Perhaps this book is a lesson in not forcing kids read only "classics". Not that there is anything wrong with them, but why not let kids read the books that will interest them? If we encourage them to do that, they may read a great deal more. I have to agree with that. When I was a kid, my parents strongly encouraged me reading anything. Even comic books. Because it was reading. They instilled a great love for books in me that way."There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #21 March 16, 2012 Quote Quote Perhaps this book is a lesson in not forcing kids read only "classics". Not that there is anything wrong with them, but why not let kids read the books that will interest them? If we encourage them to do that, they may read a great deal more. I have to agree with that. When I was a kid, my parents strongly encouraged me reading anything. Even comic books. Because it was reading. They instilled a great love for books in me that way. Any of your peoples with kids, I strongly recommend you look into this site: http://www.reading-rewards.com/ A good friend of mine built and runs it. It's a great idea and resource if you ask me!Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeJD 0 #22 March 16, 2012 My current bugbear is people complaining about how movie producers ruin books . The book is the book and the movie is the movie, and the two types of media call for different approaches. I think it's almost better to think of them as unrelated - people are spoiling their enjoyment of films adapted from books because they're not accepting the films on their own terms. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peanut_gallery 0 #23 March 16, 2012 On occasion I will be slightly disappointed that the movie didn't include certain parts of the book it was based on, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is one that comes to mind. But mostly I will keep them separate, as you say a movie is a movie and a book is a book. One thing I think its hard to make in a movie that is based on a book is that there is a lot of inner monologue and thoughts that fill pages, set the moods, and fill the scenes that you just can't do in a movie. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #24 March 16, 2012 Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't one of the big points of the chick's story that she's an archery expert?quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #25 March 16, 2012 Quote My current bugbear is people complaining about how movie producers ruin books . The book is the book and the movie is the movie, and the two types of media call for different approaches. I think it's almost better to think of them as unrelated - people are spoiling their enjoyment of films adapted from books because they're not accepting the films on their own terms. This is true, but most people never think of what the differences in the medium mean in terms of how the product is created. Just the fact a book can be put down or a chapter reread to clarify what just happened vs a film which is intended to be seen in one continuous sitting with no "instant replay." Books can go into the mind of a character from a first person point of view, movies really can't do that for any extended period of time. Great adapted screenplays have to cut through all the fluff, get to the meat of the story and make it crystal clear to the viewer who is watching it in "real time." Can you even begin to imagine what Steve Kloves had to go through to keep the "Harry Potter" franchise manageable? Crazy.quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
