Whatitdo8
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| 04 Apr 2014 06:45 PM |
I hated the series. The characters were flat, underdeveloped, and extremely one dimensional. It's a slightly less bad Twilight. You have the main character, an unattractive girl who is unpopular and angsty. She's someone every self absorbed teenage girl can relate to. Then she has two very attractive, ridiculously out of her league guys pursuing her. That's the dream of unpopular, unattractive teenage girl. If you like your guys effeminate and weak, then you can be "Team Peeta", or, if you like your guys brutish and overprotective, you can be "Team Gale". Everyone devotes all their attention to the main character and all her mistakes are eventually forgiven. She can use the excuse of what she went to in order to push away everyone who might make a positive impact on her life. She's immature, rude, and just plain mean. She's every teenage girl. The only "pretty girl" in the book, Glimmer, is, of course, characterized as the popular mean girl who the target audience already hates. She's given no development and her brutal end is just a little victory moment for the unpopular teenage girls. President Snow is the controlling authority figure which everyone hates, Peeta is the boy everyone has a hopeless, unfulfilled crush on, and the stylist is basically the "cool mentor" who will put up with all your bullsht and indulge your whining. The only characters who received any significant development at all, Katniss and Peeta, are just stock representations. Peeta, the guy who gets the girl in the end, has a borderline obsessive fix on Katniss. It actually left me feeling very creeped out by the end of the first book and was just sickening by the time the second ended. Katniss never changed. She just stayed the bitter, selfish, leech on society she always was. The only characters I could say I liked (Rue, Glimmer, Johanna, and Boggs) were all one dimensional and, although they could have had fantastic potential, remained half baked ways of relating to the target audience. So, in the end, this series undeserved popularity comes from the fact that any teenage girl can put themselves in Katniss' shoes then use her story as an excuse for their own immature behavior. Next to that, the love triangle is every unpopular teen and pre-teens dream. What acne faced girl wouldn't want two hot guys lusting after her in a slightly stalkerish way? This is exactly why Twilight was so popular. These books follow the sickening "formula for success" which most popular books do these days. Hash out a formulaic storyline, throw in some horrible writing, and tweak the setting just enough to be called "unique", and you've got yourself a best seller. It's sad, really...
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RotomWash
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| 04 Apr 2014 06:47 PM |
Well.
I actually agree with most of this.
Good work, I guess. |
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| 04 Apr 2014 06:48 PM |
the series had the worst of all books
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| 04 Apr 2014 06:49 PM |
*worst ending
it was uncreative and highly unrealistic
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Whatitdo8
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| 04 Apr 2014 06:50 PM |
I seriously think i could make a best seller in a day.
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Whatitdo8
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| 04 Apr 2014 07:03 PM |
Bump
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Whatitdo8
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| 04 Apr 2014 10:21 PM |
B2
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NeptuneOG
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| 04 Apr 2014 10:22 PM |
| That's young adult dystopian fiction for ya bud |
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NeptuneOG
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| 04 Apr 2014 10:23 PM |
| kids don't really care about classical fiction |
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| 04 Apr 2014 10:25 PM |
this is a young adult book of course it's going to be like this |
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Whatitdo8
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| 04 Apr 2014 10:42 PM |
B3
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| 04 Apr 2014 10:43 PM |
SHUT UP, IT'S UNTURE!
It's slightly better than Twilight, not worse. |
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Whatitdo8
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| 04 Apr 2014 10:45 PM |
Thats what i said
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| 04 Apr 2014 10:45 PM |
there there op
ˢᵒ ᵖˡᵉᵃˢᵉ ᵈᵒᶰ'ᵗ ˢᶜʳᵉᵃᵐ ʷʰᵉᶰ ʷᵉ ᵗᵃᵏᵉ ʸᵒᵘ; ᵗʰᵉ ʷᵒʳˡᵈ ᶤˢ ᵠᵘᶤᵉᵗ ʰᵉʳᵉˑ |
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| 04 Apr 2014 10:46 PM |
| oh, slightly less bad... what a weird way to put it |
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Whatitdo8
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| 04 Apr 2014 10:47 PM |
Not really
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| 08 Apr 2014 04:05 PM |
Bump
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