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Kell frequently travels in and out of the Londons – passing along correspondence, adventuring and smuggling artifacts that last bit is hugely illegal. After a visit to the cruel king and queen of White London, Kell is given an innocuous black stone and told to bring it to Red London.

A bit buzzed and confused, he travels between worlds only to discover that the stone is actually a part of Black London. By smuggling the stone, Kell committed treason against the crown of Red London his adopted family but more importantly, the black stone contains remnants of that world’s magic – seduction and hunger. Delilah “Lila” Bard lives in Grey London not that she knows it. It’s the only London without magic and she’s spent her entire life looking for a way out.

And then Kell lands on her doorstop. I’d rather die on an adventure than live standing still. Kell immediately struggles with the power of the stone. And he soon realizes that although he may not want it, help will come to him in the form of one very, very stubborn Lila Bard. I really enjoyed the start to this series!

Schwab had such a unique idea – with the four Londons and their varying degrees of magic – and executed it extremely well. I loved all the details she included – it really made the story come alive. As for the characters Lila at times a bit over the top really balanced out the seriousness and coldness of Kell. The two of them working together had a really natural feel – as evidenced by their free-flowing banter.

I was not myself. Audiobook Comments Read by Steven Crossley – and he did a great job. This was a rather well-read audiobook. I do wish he would’ve had more emotion when it came to his characters but then again, Kell is supposed to be a little stand-offish. View all 28 comments. Alone the magic in this was everything and it was so dark and twisted that it was a delight to read about it. In my opinion this was a really great concept and I lived and breathed for the execution of it.

In short, the language did not matter, only the intention did. The mere idea of four different parallel Londons that exist next to each other was more than just intriguing as well.

Alone the villains of this book!!! Ohh and Holland! In the characters section, of course! Tread carefully, my dear friend! A black that ran edge to edge, filling white and iris both. There was nothing human about that eye.

It was pure magic. The mark of a blood magician. Of an Antari. They are my kryptonite. Ask Lucien. He is part of the royal family and might seem to have it all, but when push came to shove his true status among the royals was revealed and my heart ached for him. Despite this he still had his own moral code and acted according to it, even if it meant that he was at a disadvantage when he had to face Holland and the Dane twins.

Poor Kell! I had the feeling in some way or another he was figuratively and quite literally bleeding throughout the entire book. But what she saw, she never shared. Kell took her hand and kissed it. But I am afraid of dying here. XD I mean I admire her resilience and stubbornness but I think sometimes she was way too sure of herself and that got her into a lot of trouble.

Also I could relate to her when it came to her choice of clothes. Lila only shrugged. Or perhaps it was the way he seemed to be made more of water and stone than flesh and blood and soul. It was so nice to watch him in action. XD Especially an intriguing background story. I really wish we would have gotten more of it though. I mean we only got the necessary details to keep the story moving but there are so many things I would have loved to read about.

Hell, this has trouble written all over it! If you ask me Kell basically handed him the means to come back even stronger! Dark things swirled just beneath the smooth black depths. One word whispered through her mind. No, thought Kell as they set off. He suffered long enough. I hope that will change in the next one though. Also he seems to be unapologetically bi and I live and breathe for characters like that!!!

Still, judging by the little we saw and heard of him I can already tell that he loves Kell like a brother and would never do anything to harm him. Also was it just me or did Holland and Rhy actually flirt with each other? Can anyone please tell me how exactly Holland suffered?!!! Apparently the Dane Twins had a reputation of torturing and forcing people to do their will. What exactly happened before they ascended the White throne?!

I really wish we would have gotten more details here, because this really sounded like an interesting story! Either way the Dane twins gave me the creeps. Astrid even more than her brother Athos.

Magic and malice indeed. The first time it was even BDSM style! XD They were very different but for some reason they still worked. Plus they are both Antari. I wonder how their relationship is going to continue. There is a lot of potential that only needs to be explored. And then Lila brought her free hand to his jaw and tugged his mouth towards hers. The kiss was there and then gone, like one of her smiles.

Which is more than can be said about his parents, but Kell already knew that. Is it all yours? This was only just the beginning and what a marvellous one it was!

Typical me! Do I even have to say more??!! Just bring it on! I got this! View all 52 comments. I’m not afraid of dying. Should have done this long ago. Kell is a magician named Antari. He has the ability to travel between Londons. Kell works for Red London royalty. Or should I say- was adopted by the royalties.

But, he has always felt as a possession and not as a family member. Well, except for the relat “Death comes for everyone. Well, except for the relationship with Rhy- who he claims to be his brother.

The setting, the world that Schwab built, is so brilliant and fascinating. The different ways of which London lives, how Kell found names to each London, by the way they function. I especially love the story behind Black London- which is sealed because it was consumed by magic.

Kell meets Lila, a pickpocket in grey London- strong and spunky- a girl who desires to be a pirate, and longs for adventure. I loved both Kell and Lila, and I really loved how they worked together as a team.

In fact, the reason they met was because Lila stole the dangerous artifact from Kell. And then- how they found themselves willing to be in a dangerous position just to help each other. Which is amazing, because if you know me, you’ll know that I appreciate love that comes from acquaintance.

And who said there would be romance between them? Even if that seems to happen. And that’s the kind of excitement I like- to wait and see what happens between these two. Kell was likable from the very beginning. Then he realized how strong he really was, and so were we. I also liked Rhy, and I was sad that I didn’t get the chance to really know him as a character.

Holland is another Antari, who belongs to the dangerous, magic-lusting White London. But I was angry with him because he tried to kill Kell, and I fucking love Kell. I do hope Holland will be in the sequels because I want to know more about him. They were strong, smart, sadistic and ruthless.

It made me excited about the way they behave, and I was curious how Kell would deal with them. The beginning was mostly a back story, and it took me a while to get into the vibe of the plot. By the way- Kell has a mysterious coat that has a different look for every place he visits and there are so many- some coats he has never seen, or seen once, and then never again.

How amazing is that? I want this coat. T who arrives in London. This is my sixth month on Goodreads and throughout that period, there are three series that always appeared on my feeds and probably everyone else. E Schwab. Endless arrow pinned me to a wall. I actually liked this book for a while until the underwhelming climax happened.

I love V. There is nothing remotely interesting about the plot. These days, there are a lot of stories and themes that have been overdone but somehow managed to deliver immersive and intriguing plot with great casts of characters and their developments. There are no developments at all for the main characters except Lila. There, I talked about the main characters personality and their development progression throughout this whole book within one sentence.

Seriously, out of everything I ever read, Kell is one of the most boring character of all time. The only thing intriguing about him is his coat and it’s always a bad sign when the clothes is more captivating than the person. Finally, the last problem I have with the book is the underwhelming magic and climax. If there’s one thing that V. Even all the action scenes in the book are really standard and provides zero intensity. I read the climax sequences with a face and emotion so flat that drinking a hot Chamomile tea will give more reaction to my emotion.

Because of these 3 factors that really shine from aDSoM. All 4 version of London have their unique characteristic. And for the love of all that is holy and sacred not this abomination Despite everything, I still like the book enough to finish it and I still have hope for the future sequels. It won’t be soon but I will continue with the series eventually with really low expectation.

It lacked a touch of brilliance to make the book reach its maximum potential that the concept provides and I sincerely hope the sequels will receive the shade of magic it needs. Jan 06, Elle ellexamines rated it it was amazing Shelves: authors-of-color , zreads , x-series , favorite-relationships , sff-high-fantasy , lgbtq , genre-experiments , zfaves , mental-illness-disability , 5-star.

So you may notice this book is kind of polarizing within the adult sff community; a little bit And for me personally it is Red London, a land of magic and peace. White London, a land of turmoil and war and an overuse of magic. And Black London, the land where magic went wrong and burnt out. Only a few people can travel between worlds, and when one of the only two left, Kell, discovers a magic stone that could destroy his world, he and non-magical Lila go on a journey to put it back.

Let’s get the problems out of the way – the plotting is a mixed bag. Pro: fast-paced and never boring. This book is a page wild ride. Con: literally no driving force behind the plot. The characters don’t even have a quest until around page , and it makes the entire book feel just a bit messy. Her smile only sharpened. It was nigh-impossible for me to not be engaged in this story.

The writing style is SO GOOD, lyrical and gorgeous and with a really nice flow to it; one of my good blogger friends discussed her sentence structure, and it is so fantastic. The worldbuilding is creative and intriguing and perhaps best of all, makes a surprising amount of sense for such a wild concept. Also, I would die for these characters.

Oddly, they didn’t totally grow on me until like While I could recognize from the beginning that the leads were well-developed and interesting, it took me a while to feel as if I had a concrete concept of who they are. And then we got to the ending and I was screaming in agony at the thought of these characters dying, and I was like “oh shit” and realized how much I love Kell and Lila and Rhy and how much I care about their relationships.

Schwab does a lot of showing, not telling, which makes the character development a bit more subtle; these characters are based off their motivations perhaps even more than their actual traits. Slow start, flawless payoff. I actually want to talk a little more specifically about these characters because when I think back on this series, they are always what come to mind. Kell is a grumpy child who we love anyway. Lila is a fucking badass genderfluid thief with a soft side and I love her. Rhy is a bisexual prince [literally] who spends half his time dragging people.

Even Holland, the sort-of-villain, is a super dynamic and intriguing character. I love them. They are perhaps two of the most different people ever and they love each other so much it’s beautiful. Super highly recommended for fans of creative, engaging fantasy. Blog Goodreads Twitter Youtube View all 32 comments. Jan 19, Hannah Azerang rated it really liked it Shelves: favorites. My spoiler free video review is now up!! That was incredible!! Schwab is truly a master when it comes to crafting multidimensional, well rounded, and flawed characters.

Rhy is so pure and precious. There are some other twists between then and the final page, but by then I was rather annoyed with the whole thing.

I suppose they had become inured to it, but on the other hand, that meant they knew the horror of it. I just didn’t believe there was as little fear in them as there appeared to be – given that they are children. It can only be a tiny part of the USA because each district specialises in only one thing coal mining, agriculture etc and has just one town square that can accommodate everyone 8, people in District 12 and yet it’s a day’s train journey from District 12 to the Capitol.

It doesn’t seem like a very plausible settlement pattern in a post-disaster world, even given the totalitarian regime concentrating people in a few centres makes it easier to observe and perhaps control them, but it also creates more opportunities for opposition movements to develop.

It is even possible that they could all survive. The second point is what makes LotF a better book, in my opinion. Of course, there are other, more obvious, parallels with extreme “reality” shows such as “Survivor” and “I’m a Celebrity, get me out of here”, but the fundamental differences are not just that contestants in those shows do not fear for their lives, but that they are adults who have chosen to enter. Any fans who read this will now hate me.

I wanted to enjoy this book, and I read it all the way through, making notes as usual, but to no avail. Shelves: classic-young-adult , girls-rule , young-adult , utopia-dystopia , reviewed , chosen-girls. It is beautiful for the unflinching way it shows you, as a reader, your own willingness to disregard people who are different from you – how you are the Capitol audience.

But, it is important as a story about girls. I had not initially thought about articulating that point because it seemed so obvious to me, and I am bad at recognizing my own assumptions. Lately, though, I have seen so many people, both men and women, acting as though this remarkable book is a piece of fluff that I realized maybe what I love most about The Hunger Games is not as obvious as it seems.

To me, this series is important because it is a landmark departure from the traditional story about girls. Too often, stories objectify women. When I say stories objectify girls, I mean they talk about girls as though they are fleshlights that sometimes have handy dandy extra gadgets such as an all-purpose cleaning mechanism and food dispensing function. Sidebar: if you are inclined to now google the word “fleshlight,” I encourage you to consult the urban dictionary definition here before doing that, as the google results will probably be NSFW and also NSF those of you whose parents might check your browsing history.

Do parents know how to do that? Sorry for the sidebar, I am just intending to make an explicit point, and now I am feeling uncomfortable about what that explicit point might mean to the target audience of this book. Girls, you are probably badass like Katniss, and you are definitely not a fleshlight. Back to my rant about typical objectification in storytelling: often the girls fleshlights have fancy outer designs because it makes the fleshlights happy to be fancy.

Sometimes they have skeeeeeery castration functions , and other times they work as helpful databases for music or video games or whatever UR into. A lot of times, I will hear people refer to this type of objectification as treating women like they are just a vagina, or a pair of boobs, but I think there is something to the stories that is less human and more sexbot machine than that complaint covers.

So, in all of those links, I have tried to include books written by men and by women because I think that women think of ourselves this way almost as often as men think of us this way. The link from The Ugly Truth , for example, shows both a man and a woman treating women like fleshlights. I have also included both books I love and books I hate because, ultimately, I do think girls adopt this story about themselves, and I also think we can pretty easily identify with a male protagonist and disregard female characters who look nothing like humans.

For example, The Sun Also Rises is one of my favorite books in the whole world, even though it does not contain any women who resonate with my experience of humans. And I don’t think it’s necessarily bad that I can enjoy stories where women are only fleshlights, as long as I can still be whoever I want to be without a positive role model. I think it’s good to enjoy stories and take what we can get from them, and so I don’t regret that I love The Sun Also Rises. In seeing some male reactions to The Hunger Games , I am reminded that most men do not identify with female protagonists the way women have been trained to identify with male protagonists.

This seems like a huge disadvantage for men to be in, to me, and if you are a man reading this review, I would ask you to check out your bookshelves. How many female authors are on your shelves?

How many of the books those authors wrote have no central male character? If you have a minute after that, check the shelves of a woman you are friends with and see how many of her books were written by men or have no central female character. Odds are the results will be pretty different. Katniss is strong and broken, and powerful in her brokenness. Masculinity does not have to mean emotional cowardice. Hopefully, we never think of our primary purpose in life, in the way so many stories think of it, as making penises erect.

Hopefully, we never think of ourselves as gadgets that are super fun for other people. Yes, it is also a poignant critique of reality TV and Western callousness about the catastrophes caused by industrialization in the developing world, but that, too, resonates with me in many ways because of its remarkably feminine voice. It absolutely makes sense to me that this book is not for everyone because of its violence, but I still think that it is objectively important because it shows a perspective that seems authentically feminine to me — that talks like a girl, not like a sexy, fancy gadget.

The Hunger Games is one that does, and it does so in way that is beautiful and important. I want to die as myself. I don’t want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I’m not. I keep wishing I could think of a way to That I’m more than just a piece in their Games.

You’re the one who wasn’t paying attention. Of course, I loved Peeta! How can “I don’t know how to say it exactly. How can I not? He is perfect! But Katniss?

She is so strong and bad-ass but she always misunderstands Peeta! It’s so obvious that he loves her but she is in denial! She is so stupid!! And when she realizes his feelings, she just hurt him! Let’s start from the beginning! What is Hunger Games? Every year, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 were selected from each of the twelve districts as tributes, who train for a week and then are sent into an arena to fight to the death. Only one tribute can win the games. This competition is showed to television to be seen by all citizens.

So, Katniss’ little sister, Prim, is selected for the games, but Katniss took her place to save her. I volunteer as tribute! He protected her but I will admit she protected him as well! She risked her life to get the medicine needed to heal his leg. But how can she not see that he is madly in love with her? I loved it when he told her about her singing for the music class, that’s when Peeta realized he was in love with her when he saw that the birds were listening like they did for her father.

And right when your song ended, I knew – just like your mother – I was a goner,” Peeta says. Very deep. He is her best friend! At the beginning, she said that she never saw him that way and now what? She is confusing me. Please, not love triangle again!! I liked Gale but no! He won the Hunger Games of his time. He is also Katniss’ and Peeta’s mentor. It seems at first that he doesn’t like Katniss very much but at the Hunger Games he helped her more than he helped Peeta.

He always supported her in his way. She was the year-old female tribute from District I really liked that Katniss allied with Rue. They were amazing together. But Rue died.

I understand only one can win our case two but I felt so sad when she died. Not only her though. A lot innocent kids die because of the Capitol. It’s not fair. So katniss and Peeta can be allies. But when all the other tributes died it was announced that the rule they said early has been canceled.

I was so angry! They did it on purpose. She is so stupid. He didn’t want to fight her and she thought that he could kill her. But it was a trick. Peeta discovers that Katniss was mostly acting during the games about the feelings. He was so heartbroken! My baby! I haven’t seen the movie yet! View all 48 comments. Dec 24, Emily May rated it really liked it Shelves: young-adult , dystopia-utopia , It seems weird that I never reviewed The Hunger Games. I don’t know why I didn’t when it was a series that completely took over my life for a short while.

But recently I’ve been thinking about posting something in this review space and after just watching the second film which I think was amazing and better than the first , now seems like as good a time as any to talk about why I love Katniss and nearly everything about this series. I gave this book four stars back in and I’m going to leave that rating as it is because it’s an indicator of my thoughts at the time though they slightly differ now – thoughts which were influenced by having just finished the fantastic, horrifying, brutal and unforgettable Battle Royale manga series.

I don’t think it was the best time for myself and Katniss to find one another when I had so much beautiful insanity to compare the book to, but it still managed to have such an effect on me that I instantly told every friend and family member to read it.

Coming back to this now after having spent the last couple of years being bombarded with dystopian YA, I appreciate what Collins has achieved a whole lot more. I appreciate the strength of Katniss as a heroine who commands our attention and holds our love whilst still being what some would consider unlikable; I appreciate the balance of beauty and horror that Collins delivers on every page, treating us constantly to both the darkest despair and rays of hope; and I also – amazingly – appreciate the love triangle.

Love triangles seem to have chased me and hunted me down with every YA read I picked up over the last two or three years – my dislike for romance instantly becoming doubled by the introduction of yet another boy with beautiful eyes. But Katniss, Peeta and Gale worked for me. They convinced me, held my interest and made me cry. The love triangle worked because it’s outcome wasn’t obvious, because we all wondered and hoped and worried.

Because, either way, I was always going to be half happy and half sad. Katniss still remains for me everything that a female protagonist should be. Or a female hero, at least. She fights for the ones she loves, she’s brave and doesn’t need to be saved. But neither is she a one-dimensional smiling poster-version of a heroine.

She falls, she fails, people get hurt because of her and she has to live with that. We love her and yet she’s antisocial, awkward and moody. She loves other people with all her heart but she’s not much of a team player. In short: she’s a complex portrait of a young woman that doesn’t fall into any neatly defined boxes or categories. Now, perhaps, authors have since tried to recreate her. But she’s still one of the first and best. I know another review of this book isn’t needed. I know you’ve all probably read it anyway.

Or never will. But this isn’t really for anyone else; it’s a reminder to myself of why this book deserves its hype and why I need to remember to come back to it again and again between the new and hopefully amazing YA books I’ll be reading in the future.

View all 29 comments. I’ve said to a few people that if I wasn’t married, I’d have to marry this book. I feel pretty safe in saying that if this isn’t still my favorite book of the year when next January rolls around, that I’ll eat a hat. As soon as I finished reading it, I turned around and read it a 2nd time, which I’ve never done before in my life. It’s got some very meaty issues to chew on, not the least of which is reality TV taken to extremes. I will miss Katniss until I can read about her again.

What more could you possibly ask for out of a book? It doesn’t actually come out until October , but if you can get your hands on an ARC, definitely do!

I think that the violence in this will be easier for kids to take, since they probably won’t see it quite as clearly as an adult will. None of it is particularly graphic, but it is definitely brutal.

This is on the edge of too dark for me, which is my favorite kind of book. There aren’t many writers who can push it right to the edge for me without going over Zusak comes to mind immediately , but Collins is definitely one of them. OK, I’ll stop gushing. I may have to re-write this review when I get some perspective. Still my definite favorite book of the year, but all the typos in the finished book were pretty disappointing.

I’ve had 2 teenaged boys at my library read this on my recommendation, and both of them came back asking me for more books like it really there isn’t anything. May-June I’m reading this for the 4th time, with my younger son, who’s finishing up 5th grade.

Still as good as ever!! Can’t wait for the movie!! I’ve seen the movie twice so far, and definitely liked it better the 2nd time, when it didn’t have to try to be my favorite book. STILL as good as ever, and the odds will forever be in its favor. View all 75 comments. Jul 18, Colleen Venable rated it really liked it Shelves: ya-fiction , books-that-made-me-cry.

Fantastically Written? Ooooh yeah! Super Quick Read? Most definitely! Man, I wish someone on my friends list here has also read Battle Royale and this book! I ate it up, shouting into other rooms and offices that I was going to be shoving the book i Fantastically Written? I ate it up, shouting into other rooms and offices that I was going to be shoving the book into their hands as soon as I was done, but as it went on desha vu was a little too common for me.

I know there are major story types out there, ones that are repeated over and over again. Shakespeare retold different ways. The bible reinterpreted to 2,, varieties of tales FEED felt utterly original. If it’s going to be about “the future” we don’t know about, make it original.

In my mind dystopia novels survive on “idea” more than “excecution” and while the execution of this was beautiful, the idea was hardly new. In Battle Royal short explanation of BR plot: 40 students put on island forced to kill each other and winner is set for life and put on TV etc There are so many other similarities, from the ways the gamemakers manipulate, to the ways the media encourages, to one character having a fever and the other taking care of them with soup.

There are even “career” battle royal players. In BR you see the emotions before and after someone is killed, their last thoughts, the feeling of the person who killed. It’s actually really beautiful the way it is done, and so believable that put in an arena teens WOULD turn into savages. In The Hunger Games, yes the main characters were fantastic, and many of the lesser as well, but Foxface is only Foxface, and the Careers are never more than random 1-dimensional bad guys.

I am not saying it wasn’t a GREAT read, I’m just saying it shouldn’t shake the publishing earth the way I am pretty sure it is going to. I anticipate this is the next Twilight series people are going to gush over. In a few years we’ll all be hosting Hunger Games final book parties. I’ll be amongst the attendees I’m sure. Also in terms of female main characters, Katiniss may surpass Bella in me wanting to shake sense into a character.

Talk about a smart girl being utterly clueless! Yes, it was great, but eh, maybe I’m just bitter because I think BR is the better book of the two and while Hunger Games will get tons of praise and likely a rather deserved award or two, BR will continue to be banned in many libraries.

Amazing what subtracting guns can do to a story. Suddenly it doesn’t feel as violent, but rather is more reminiscent of stories we heard growing up. The number of swords and arrow deaths in traditional fairytales is nothing to freak out about, but if bullets are flying, it will give “too many ideas” to teens and therefore must be dubbed an adult book. I’m pretty sure if I hadn’t read BR just a few months back this exeedingly long review would have been just as long only instead of a rant it would have just been one long squeeeeeal of delight over how much I loved the book.

Original Comment: Peer pressure, peer pressure, peer pressure. Geez guys! Alright, alright I’ll read it! Clearly Gregor was merely the prelude. As an author we were accustomed to your fun adventures involving a boy, his sister, and a world beneath our world. But reading it gave me a horribly familiar feeling. There is a certain strain of book that can hypnotize you into believing that you are in another time and place roughly 2.

And The Hunger Games? Well as I walked down the street I was under the disctinc impression that there were hidden cameras everywhere, charting my progress home. Collins has written a book that is exciting, poignant, thoughtful, and breathtaking by turns. It ascends to the highest forms of the science fiction genre and will create all new fans for the writer.

One of the best books of the year. Ever since her father died the girl has spent her time saving her mother and little sister Prim from starvation by hunting on forbidden land. But worst of all is reaping day. Once a year the government chooses two children from each of the twelve districts to compete against one another in a live and televised reality show.

Twenty-four kids and teens enter, and only one survives. Why not make it as if Peeta and Katniss were in love with one another? But in a game where only one person can live, Katniss will have to use all her brains, wits, and instincts to determine who to trust and how to outwit the game’s creators. So sure, there are parts of this plot that have been done before.

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Gertrude attempted to enter an ancillary arrangement in which she would forward Gris living expenses in exchange for future pictures.

Stein and Toklas had plans to visit England to sign a contract for the publication of Three Lives , to spend a few weeks there, and then journey to Spain.

They left Paris on July 6, and returned on October After a supposed three-week trip to England that stretched to three months due to the War, they returned to France, where they spent the first winter of the war. With money acquired from the sale of Stein’s last Matisse Woman with a Hat [] to her brother Michael, she and Toklas vacationed in Spain from May through the spring of Toklas and Stein returned to Paris in June , and acquired a Ford automobile with the help of associates in the United States; Gertrude learned to drive it with the help of her friend William Edwards Cook.

During the s, Stein and Toklas became famous with the mass-market publication of The Autobiography of Alice B. She and Alice had an extended lecture tour in the United States during this decade. The two women doted on their beloved poodle named “Basket” whose successor, “Basket II”, comforted Alice in the years after Gertrude’s death.

Gertrude’s book “Wars I Have Seen” written before the German surrender and before the liberation of German concentration camps, likened the German army to Keystone cops.

After the war, Stein was visited by many young American soldiers. The August 6, issue of Life magazine featured a photo of Stein and American soldiers posing in front of Hitler’s bunker in Berchtesgaden. In the s, a cabinet in the Yale University Beinecke Library , which had been locked for an indeterminate number of years, was opened and found to contain some love letters written by Stein and Toklas. They were made public for the first time, revealing intimate details of their relationship.

Stein is the author of one of the earliest coming out stories, ” Q. The story, written during travels after leaving college, is based on a three-person romantic affair in which she became involved while studying at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.

The affair was complicated, as Stein was less experienced with the social dynamics of romantic friendship as well as her own sexuality and any moral dilemmas regarding it. Stein maintained at the time that she detested “passion in its many disguised forms”. Stein became enamored of Bookstaver but was unsuccessful in advancing their relationship. Bookstaver, Haynes, and Lounsbury all later married men.

Stein began to accept and define her pseudo-masculinity through the ideas of Otto Weininger ‘s Sex and Character Weininger, though Jewish by birth, considered Jewish men effeminate and women as incapable of selfhood and genius, except for female homosexuals who may approximate masculinity. As Stein equated genius with masculinity, her position as a female and an intellectual becomes difficult to synthesize and modern feminist interpretations of her work have been called into question.

More positive affirmations of Stein’s sexuality began with her relationship with Alice B. Ernest Hemingway describes how Alice was Gertrude’s “wife” in that Stein rarely addressed his Hemingway’s wife, and he treated Alice the same, leaving the two “wives” to chat. The more affirming essay “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene” is one of the first homosexual revelation stories to be published. The work, like Q. In Tender Buttons Stein comments on lesbian sexuality and the work abounds with “highly condensed layers of public and private meanings” created by wordplay including puns on the words “box”, “cow”, and in titles such as “tender buttons”.

Along with Stein’s widely known ” Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose ” [] quotation, “there is no there there” is also one of her most famous. It appears in her work Everybody’s Autobiography Random House , p. Defenders and critics of Oakland have debated what she really meant when she said this in , after coming to San Francisco on a book tour.

She took a ferry to Oakland to visit the farm she grew up on, and the house she lived in near what is now 13th Avenue and E. The house had been razed, and the farmland had been developed with new housing in the three decades since her father had sold the property and moved closer to the commercial hub of the neighborhood on Washington Street now 12th Avenue.

She took us to see her granddaughter who was teaching in the Dominican convent in San Raphael, we went across the bay on a ferry, that had not changed but Goat Island might just as well not have been there, anyway what was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

Ah Thirteenth Avenue was the same it was shabby and overgrown. Not of course the house, the house the big house and the big garden and the eucalyptus trees and the rose hedge naturally were not there any longer existing, what was the use It is a funny thing about addresses where you live. When you live there you know it so well that it is like an identity a thing that is so much a thing that it could not ever be any other thing and then you live somewhere else and years later, the address that was so much an address that it was like your name and you said it as if it was not an address but something that was living and then years after you do not know what the address was and when you say it is not a name anymore but something you cannot remember.

That is what makes your identity not a thing that exists but something you do or do not remember. Roosevelt and the New Deal. Some stress Stein’s queer, feminist, pro-immigration, and democratic politics, [] [] although her statements on immigration need to be seen in context of the time and world events. In a interview published in The New York Times she stated:. We need the stimulation of new blood.

It is best to favor healthy competition. There is no reason why we should not select our immigrants with greater care, nor why we should not bar certain peoples and preserve the color line for instance. But if we shut down on immigration completely we shall become stagnant. The French may not like the competition of foreigners, but they let them in.

They accept the challenge and derive the stimulus. I am surprised that there is not more discussion of immigration in the United States than there is.

We have got rid of prohibition restrictions, and it seems to me the next thing we should do is to relax the severity of immigration restrictions. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky : “There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

While identified with the modernist movements in art and literature, Stein’s political affiliations were a mix of reactionary and progressive ideas. She was outspoken in her hostility to some liberal reforms of progressive politics. To Stein, the industrial revolution had acted as a negative societal force, disrupting stability, degrading values, and subsequently affecting cultural decline.

Conceived and targeted for an American readership, Stein’s translations were ultimately never published in the United States. Random House publisher Bennett Cerf had read the introduction Stein had written for the translations and been horrified by what she had produced. Although Jewish, Stein collaborated with Vichy France , a regime that deported more than 75, Jews to Nazi concentration camps , of whom only 3 percent survived the Holocaust.

This was Stein’s contention in the year when the town of Culoz , where she and Toklas resided, saw the removal of its Jewish children to Auschwitz. Even when it is here. Stein was able to condemn the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor while simultaneously maintaining the dissonant acceptance of Hitler as conqueror of Europe.

Stein, seemingly ironically, proclaimed that Hitler merited the Nobel Peace Prize. Given that after the war Stein commented that the only way to ensure world peace was to teach the Germans disobedience, [] this Stein interview has come to be interpreted as an ironic jest made by a practiced iconoclast hoping to gain attention and provoke controversy.

In an effort to correct popular mainstream misrepresentations of Stein’s wartime activity, a dossier of articles by critics and historians has been gathered for the online journal Jacket2. How much of Stein’s wartime activities were motivated by the real exigencies of self-preservation in a dangerous environment can only be speculated upon.

In an essay written for the Atlantic Monthly in November , Stein wrote about her decision not to leave France: “it would be awfully uncomfortable and I am fussy about my food. Others have argued that some of the accounts of Stein’s war time activities have amounted to a “witch hunt.

Stein died on July 27, at the age of 72 after surgery for stomach cancer at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine , near Paris. Toklas was buried alongside her. Her companion Toklas, however, has given two other versions of the encounter—neither of which agrees with the “canonical” version above. On July 27, , Stein was operated on for what proved to be inoperable stomach cancer and died before coming out of anesthesia.

In “What Is Remembered,” Toklas wrote of the “troubled, confused and very uncertain” afternoon of the surgery. I was silent. In that case, she said, what is the question? About Baby’s last words. She said upon waking from a sleep–What is the question. And I didn’t answer thinking she was not completely awakened. Then she said again–What is the question and before I could speak she went on–If there is no question then there is no answer.

Stein’s biographers have naturally selected the superior “in that case what is the question? Strong narratives win out over weak ones when no obstacle of factuality stands in their way. What Stein actually said remains unknown. That Toklas cited the lesser version in a letter of is suggestive but not conclusive. Stein named writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten as her literary executor , and he helped to publish works of hers that remained unpublished at the time of her death. Sherwood Anderson in his public introduction to Stein’s publication of Geography and Plays wrote:.

For me the work of Gertrude Stein consists in a rebuilding, an entirely new recasting of life, in the city of words. Here is one artist who has been able to accept ridicule, who has even forgone the privilege of writing the great American novel, uplifting our English speaking stage, and wearing the bays of the great poets to go live among the little housekeeping words, the swaggering bullying street-corner words, the honest working, money-saving words and all the other forgotten and neglected citizens of the sacred and half-forgotten city.

In a private letter to his brother Karl, Anderson said, “As for Stein, I do not think her too important. I do think she had an important thing to do, not for the public, but for the artist who happens to work with words as his material.

Anyone who reads at all diversely during these bizarre s cannot escape the conclusion that a number of crazy men and women are writing stuff which remarkably passes for important composition among certain persons who should know better. Stuart P. Sherman, however, refused to be numbered among those who stand in awe and admiration of one of the most eminent of the idiots, Gertrude Stein.

He reviews her Geography and Plays in the August 11 issue of the Literary Review of the New York Evening Post and arrives at the conviction that it is a marvellous and painstaking achievement in setting down approximately 80, words which mean nothing at all. Why Stein is not, finally, a good or helpful writer.

There is no problem. It’s all affirmation. A rose is a rose is a rose. The original, created in , is now in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Stein and Alice B. Toklas are both characters in the eight-person show. Stein is a central character in Nick Bertozzi ‘s graphic novel The Salon. The posthumously published Journals of Ayn Rand contain several highly hostile references to Gertrude Stein. From Rand’s working notes for her novel The Fountainhead , it is clear that the character Lois Cook in that book was intended as a caricature of Stein.

Stein was portrayed in the Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris by Kathy Bates , and by Tracee Chimo in the season of the television series Genius which focuses on the life and career of Pablo Picasso. Waiting for the Moon , a movie starring Linda Bassett that was released in Stein is added to a list of great artists and notables in the popular Broadway musical Rent in the song ” La Vie Boheme “.

Louis in June, with Stephanie Blythe as Stein. Toklas by Gertrude Stein , a farce about their fantasy marriage that also told the story of their life. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. American author Stein in photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Writer poet novelist playwright art collector.

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In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages Could you survive on your own in the wild, with every one out to make sure you don’t live to see the morning?

The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister’s place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weight survival against humanity and life against love.

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To ask other readers questions about The Hunger Games , please sign up. I recently watched the movie I know I was just curious – how different is the book from the movie? I want to read this book, but I have a long list of other titles that I am considering reading as well.

Just wanted to know if I’ll be blown away by it. Novica Vukobratovic The movies are terrible. Too many key things from the book s excluded. I watched the movies and they were really good. Are the books better than the book? And if so should I read this trilogy? Mia All three of the books are much, much, much better then the movies. The movies leave out many important parts whereas the book has a lot more depth an …more All three of the books are much, much, much better then the movies.

The movies leave out many important parts whereas the book has a lot more depth and meaning etc in them so they are easier to understand the concept of the Hunger Games.

I personally loved the trilogy and I recommend reading them : less. See all questions about The Hunger Games…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Sep 20, Saniya rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.

To view it, click here. Thats Peeta folks! Laughed my ass off on this! Yes, I can stay alive for the next movie. And I was crying before the movie even started. Damn cinema, showing ‘The Titanic 3D’ movie trailer. When is the next movie coming? Another SONG released. Its so creppy and weird. I am getting chills.

This instrumental is Perfect. New picture! I thought it would be like you know, metal, but this rocks! For me its like, I read this series. I loved them.

Then I saw the first book becoming a movie. And now watching the trailer, I feel so good. Like a dream come true.

XD Yeah. I nearly died while looking at this pictures. View all comments. Nov 07, Miranda Reads rated it really liked it Shelves: audiobook. And may the odds be ever in your favor. All of the Districts of Panem must watch the Games as a form of yearly “entertainment” when in actuality, it’s a power play put on by the Capitol the we Latest BookTube Video is up – a totally serious take on writing Young Adult Lit! All of the Districts of Panem must watch the Games as a form of yearly “entertainment” when in actuality, it’s a power play put on by the Capitol the wealthiest of the districts.

For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first. The Capitol uses the Games as a way to demonstrate the sheer helplessness of the other Districts and to keep the population cowed and in fear. When Katniss’s sister twelve-year-old Prim is chosen as this year’s competitor, Katniss volunteers to take her place. Peeta, a boy from the “richer” side of District 12 is chosen as the male representative. I’m more than just a piece in their Games.

Soon, she and Peeta are whisked away to the Capitol – a place of incredible wealth and heartbreaking cruelity. And while Katniss has sworn to come back to her sister, she really has to wonder, what will be left of her if she returns. Stay alive. To be fair, this was one of the very first YA series I read, so every time I re-read it, I am just overwhelmed with nostalgia.

But, when I take off my rose-tinted glasses, I still think it’s a pretty solid series. The characters are really well-done. I love how Katniss’s motivation is both pure and ruthlessness – and her personality isn’t tainted with over-the-top self-sacrificing eyerollingly awful simpering mess that I see in quite a few of the newer YA series. Katniss’s love for her sister humanized her otherwise stiff character.

Her pride and will to survive energized the novel and kept me absolutely hooked. I appreciate that the smidge of romance does not overpower the novel. Finally, a YA novel that plot doesn’t solely hang on a love triangle – I love that it’s more of a survivalist story. Overall, really pleased with this novel – cannot wait to reread the rest! Loved the audio. And here’s another booktube video! View all 71 comments. Nov 23, Khanh, first of her name, mother of bunnies rated it it was amazing.

I was forced into watching Mockingjay: Part II this weekend. To clarify, I watched the second part of the last Hunger Games movie without having read any of the books, without having watched any of the movies. Needless to say, I was confused as fuck.

So many questions and thoughts ran through my mind as I watched the movie. Why is Peeta so thin? Did that huge-ass bruise really disappear from her neck the next day? Is Katniss supposed to look like she’s about to burst into tears at any given moment I was forced into watching Mockingjay: Part II this weekend. Is Katniss supposed to look like she’s about to burst into tears at any given moment, or is that just Jennifer Lawrence? Woody Harrelson is in this movie? Hey, it’s Margaery from Game of Thrones!

Who’s President Snow? What’s a Mockingjay? Lesser Hemsworth is pretty hot. Well, you get the point. I know how the book ended and I still have no idea who anyone is, and neither do I know their names, with the exception of Peeta, Gale, President Snow, that Coin woman, and Katniss. Of course, knowing how the book ended means I probably should read the first book, so here I am, the last person on earth to read The Hunger Games.

And it was good. It was really good. My sister was right she usually is. What else can I say that hasn’t already been said? I loved it. The world building was interesting although it helps that I’ve seen what it looks like on the big screen , and Katniss is awesome.

One of the things my sister didn’t like about the first movie is that the on-screen Katniss was different from her portrayal in the first book. I haven’t watched that movie, but I kind of see how the screen portrayal of Katniss might have bothered her.

Book-Katniss is strong, kick-ass without being a Mary Sue. She has a fierce love for her sister, and she is manipulative and cunning. She uses the prospect of romance to protect herself, she has no qualms about using people, and I love that about her.

Time to watch Movie 1! Oct 19, Dija rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Everyone who hasn’t. Shelves: wow , favorites , childhood-friends-turned-lovers , my-reviews , authors-i-stalk , , ya , buddy-slash-group-read , first-in-series. A sharp and intelligent heroine with just the right amount of emotion who gives in to absolutely nothing and no one?

A sweet and sensitive hero who loves and supports the heroine un conditionally? An original setting with a unique and thrilling plot? A couple of earth-shattering shocks every now and then to keep the readers’ mind reeling? Desperate circumstances that force me to bite my nails in anxiety? An ending that provides the perfect premise for the sequel but also concludes the present book? For more reviews, visit my blog. Oct 03, Ariel rated it it was amazing. Absolute solid gold standard.

View all 12 comments. Feb 09, Jayson rated it really liked it Shelves: author-american , genre-young-adult , pp , genre-dystopian , read-in , genre-science-fiction. Forced into murder, thievery, treachery, and kissing to stay alive. View all 84 comments. May 09, Kat rated it really liked it. View all 22 comments. Shelves: i-also-saw-the-film , awesome-kickass-heroines , for-my-future-hypothetical-daughter. Suzanne Collins has balls ovaries of steel to make us willingly cheer for a teenage girl to kill other children.

In a YA book. Two reasons why this book rocks: a It is not Twilight , and b I really hate reality shows. Seriously, how long would it take for reality shows to evolve from “Survivor” to “Hunger Games”? Yes, this book is full of imperfections.

It often requires a strenuous suspension of disbelief. It can cause a painful amount of eye-rolling and shaking fist at the book pages. Its style is choppy and the first-person present tense gets annoying. The story is simple, and the message is heavy-handed.

But is does set a better example for young impressionable pre-teens than gushing stories about sparkly co-dependency. Because Katniss is cool and a badass.

She is fierce, independent, resourceful, intelligent, and skilled. She is loyal to her friends and family. She is a survivor. She will never allow a guy to carry her around as though she is a delicate flower. She skewers that apple in the pig’s mouth with an arrow in front of the Gamemakers in the most awesome way imaginable. For all that, I love this imperfect, surly, prickly, sullen and perpetually pissed-off, quick to jump to judgment, and sometimes clueless girl.

And I love this book because – despite The Hunger Games being YA literature that seems to hinge on the romantic puppy love – the happiness of Katniss does not revolve solely around a cute male lead. Katniss and Peeta could have had plenty of other reasons to care for each other that don’t include puppy love – they are from the same district, same school, he gave her that bread, she trades with his dad, etc.

But alas, that did not happen. I understand that Collins had to cater to the way that YA publishers and Hollywood tend to view us, the female audience. At least Katniss escapes the perils of insta-love.

But poor Peeta – all of his actions are colored by him being “Lover Boy”, and I think it detracts from his personality and reduces him from a kind compassionate person to a fool in love who’d do anything for Katniss only because of his physical attraction to her. Oh, Rue Now, back to the GOOD. Rue, my favorite character. Little, fragile, almost-too-perfect Rue who was clearly doomed from the start. Who despite her appearance was neither weak nor helpless. Whose view spoiler [death scene hide spoiler ] brought the human side to Katniss who, until that point, was almost bordering on robotic.

There was real grief and anger and sadness in that scene, and from that point on I began to care. Suzanne Collins strictly follows the “show, don’t tell” rule.

Actually, she does it to such an extent that the book reads almost like a screenplay. The plot moves along at a fast pace, only slowing down a bit in the drawn out Capitol makeover and cave makeout sessions. Collins does not shy away from gruesome scenes, making many parts of the book hit home.

Katniss easily beats the majority of the popular YA heroines. And because of all her coolness, this gets 3. Somehow it just won’t seem sincere if I’m trying to slit his throat. Lawrence’s Katniss has such emotional depth, and she brings such truthfulness to her character. Excellent adaptation with a great balance of tugging on the heartstrings and darkness. View all 50 comments. Apr 10, Melanie rated it it was amazing Shelves: dystopian , young-adult , buddy-reads , read-in , quarantine-reads.

Hello, I am back again with another breakdown review while I relearn how to write reviews. We quickly learn so many characters, but we even more quickly learn what type of character Katniss Everdeen is.

The basic premise of this tale is that there are twelve districts and once a year each district will select two young candidates to fight to the death in a game, which will also be broadcasted for the world to see.

Every year, a teenagers name gets added once to this random selection pool, but each year they get older another time their name gets added. Also, you can add your name more times to get food and supplies for your family, and this is very much the norm for most children.

Meanwhile, the boy contestant is Peeta Mellark, who Katniss remembers giving her bread when her family was starving after the death of their father. Together, they are thrown into a competition that no one believes they will be able to come back alive. Especially since only one victor is allowed, therefore one of them will most certainly have to die. The journey Haymitch is about to take alongside these two kids as their mentor, whew.

Also, unknown to Katniss, a start of a public romance is brewing with Peeta to help their image. We also get to meet President Snow and start to get a vibe of all the evil things he has been stirring up for some time now.

We also get to learn about the different privileges of the other districts, and how some of these candidates view this as an honor to volunteer their life for without needing to save a little sister. Peeta is coached to very much play the star-crossed lovers card, and he even tells Caesar that he loves Katniss more than anything.

And Cinna says my favorite line in the entire series to Katniss. So simple, so beautiful, so heartbreaking. And we quickly see that people are starting to form groups to take out some of the weaker players. After with the help of some killer, engineered wasps… she is able to get down from this tree and gets a bow. Katniss sings to her, and realizes that nothing will be the same in her life again, no matter how long she has left. And she also knows that Peeta has been wounded and is missing.

They also share a kiss when they find shelter, and she vows that she is not going to let him die. She does get very injured in the process but makes it back to heal him. Thresh helped Katniss because of what she did for Rue. District 11 just deserved better. Cato is still alive, still the biggest threat, and still hella annoying. And then we have some more berry foreshadowing when a girl dies eating some. Kato runs at them, while wolves start running after them. Well, I think at least. They for sure have the tributes eyes, and it just makes it extra freaky.

But basically, after some fighting and some monologues, Kato is dying to the wolves slowly, but Katniss puts him out of his misery. They were promised earlier that if Katniss and Peeta were the final two of the game that they could both win and live, but now the game makers are trying to change that game right before them. And since they are saying there can only be one victor, Katniss takes a risk with those beloved berries and her an Peeta threaten suicide before all the people watching from the comfort of their own homes.

Katniss wakes up in a hospital where her body is healing and she is able to hear out of her one ear again. She gets to see Cinna, and believe that maybe their lives will be normal again. But Katniss quickly realizes that the Capitol is terribly upset that she played with them, and they are not going to ignore her actions in the game. They both have taken so much damage physically and mentally, and they know that Snow is not through hurting them, or the people they love, by a longshot.

View all 35 comments. May 05, Jana rated it did not like it Shelves: ya-fantasy-scifi. A lot of things are troubling me about The Hunger Games. A lot of things which I more and more perceive and which are not solely connected with this book but with the metaphor behind the words. People attach themselves to fictional freedom without seeing what really something is and which unfortunately is here to stay because you can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

Freedom of flesh. In comparison to the freedom of and from your mind which is nowhere to be found. And this is why I detest this book, although detest is such a strong from the ego word. And where after the battle of ”united” people we heal and repair the damages for the better tomorrow. The society cancer of western civilisation thinking.

Heal the damage, never heal the cause of it. We would be discussing how humanity can help each other with being better, with taking responsibility and with being open to each other.

And yet imagine this paradox we live in: better, as if the majority of population can even understand that we are in constant blood thirst to achieve peace. With war comes peace. While along the way we are trying to be better and safer. Yet most people deliberately choose to live on the utmost lowest level of their existence. In fear, frightened of itself. And people read books which are so extreme in their bullshit. And people connect with Katniss because she is the heroine.

She has managed to outsmart the system. Instead of thinking that she was not even supposed be there in the first place. Because we live in society that does this to their children. And instead of working on yourself, how to achieve your inner peace, you associate yourself again with the group because it feels better to be in the tortured crowd, instead of being alone and awakened.

It is just emo gibberish. Leave Katniss alone. And in the end, it is just a book. The system as it is, the plot of this book is just another evidence to show us how we are controlled. That we are left barren from our true selves which we only find in empathy, love towards each other and genuinely understanding that we are one and everything is one.

And the only reason I am writing this review here, the only reason I am giving it so much attention is to tell what is on my mind since it is so widely popular and since I have read it. As if having money is any critieria for life, as if not having your own free will and education and information means nothing. And the other side of the rich coin is poverty with people who believe in symbols, who are sidetracked with religions, censured TV, economy and utter lack of information circulation.

And a lot of people here are trying to disregard this review and want to reassure me that I am so terribly wrong. So I followed as well screaming Goodreads recommendations and I bought a book that is stupid, violent and written so plainly but of course written for vast masses so they can be touched by fake social awareness.

And this is my silver lining. Because it has been like this throughout centuries and with the biggest thinkers of our civilisation. What they meant and wanted to show, is definitely not what most of the public projected. It is just a constant reminder how so many things are left unrecognised while these superficial stories which evoke cheap emotions are always so hugely praised. It could have been just a little story but never underestimate the obese octopus that is called In God And Country We Trust – code red mentality.

Mentality of humans which are too ignorant, beautifully naive and untouched basically with what is means to be socially aware. And although this is a teen book, it is more deeply hurting and sickening because if you want to influence somebody, of course you will influence the children — and yet there is nothing that children can learn from it.

They can learn some things, we all need little courageous Katniss, but on a deeper subtler level is it just an intravenous injection of more Nothing and more Numbing and more Disconnected. At least they read is one of the arguments.

And argument as fruitfull as at least they eat GMO food. One food for the blind intellect, other for the digestion which both results in basic survival without any interference of you in all of it. Because it takes courage and guts and a pinch of anarchy to stop, turn around and start questioning what is handed. For me, the thought about giving this to a child is sickening especially because we live in this world where all the life criterias are upside down.

Because if it is served somebody is earning money and you are just getting fatter and sicker. And the children will learn how to question if you teach them how to find not if you broadcast them the answers. Not if you teach them through aggressive examples and if you keep the nation in cold sweat especially if you are lucky enough to live in the countries where oppression is not the issue but consumerism, body image and mediocrity have you on the leash.

I am astonished with a fact that around What is it that fascinates them so much. And it’s about a girl Katniss Everdeen, living in the far away future, who was chosen to participate in a cruel Big Brother game, in which 24 contestants children age kill each other, because live TV has become demanding, and the public loves reality blood and violence.

That’s it. A little bit of undeveloped and unbelievable romance between her and two boys, a little bit of her abandoned family problems, a little bit of The 5th element movie political structure, mutants and pop stylists. In the beginning, first 50 pages were well written. There was suspense, Katniss was sweet and witty, but overall this book is a shitty meltdown. Adding the ridiculous cliffhanger ending. Some people here are using words like dystopian literature, and then write essays about how this book is the core of it.

The core is pointlessly graphic and sadistic, without any concrete message except of the negative: this book is just proving that the world today is fucked up if this book is so successful. In a metaphorical way it is promoting political establishments of certain countries and that is getting tiring.

Not all people are eager to swallow the shit of general brainwashing. Katniss being the heroine ironical quote marks. Being loyal and darling and a role model. Just wake up. Life is happening and some pretty dark things are happening while you are thinking that Katniss is the representative of the club called liberation. For me, in a bookish way it stands for one bad one night stand, kiss and forget. But as always, readers tend to bring fiction to their real life and just as many think that kittens and superheroes are comfort zones, a lot of readers perceive this plot as their own little shrine.

But that is me not being in tune with the mainstream population which is too distracted with billboards. Because it is easier, because why protest, why not simply take what you are given – eat your GMO Monsanto’s company hamburgers, eat your cancer giving Nestle products and think that The Hunger Games are the best franchise ever, like ever. This shit sells. It’s genuinely bad but excellently targeted.

You know, it evokes pride and loyalty and massacring children, freedom and scandal and Hollywood. It goes very well with all the Kardashian filth.

As long as it sells, sells, sells. And marketing agencies know that people are united when they are jealous, when they want and they with those hamburgers want freedom. Nobody is going to kill their Katniss in a goddam book! Take a look around you. And then the punch line for this book comes from the so called activism from the shopping mall. People who devour literature of this kind and think that everything is all right while in the same time, fuck, you are getting oozingly fat.

Bottom line. This book is very shallow and MTV culture oriented, like a classical example of easy consummated pop-literature; I’m very surprised that it didn’t come with some trash magazine subscription.

If it doesn’t have savage brutality, prize money and prefix ”media coverage” then it won’t be appealing and educational because surely this is how children of 21st century survive this techno media world; through examples of true moral issues and realistic outcomes. Have another gulp of Coca-Cola along the way while you listen to dubstep shit. It saddens me when a violent hillbillish book is so popular. What is there to truly identify yourself with.

Except if your chicken soup for soul are basic emotions which come with buy 1 get 1 free. PLOT It’s a potentially exciting but gruesome story, but most of the characters were rather flat, much of the plot was predictable it’s not hugely original; in particular, it is VERY similar to the Japanese “Battle Royale” , and there were too many flaws in the plot.

I fail to understand its very high ratings. Post-apocalyptic America Panem is divided into a wealthy and technologically advanced Capitol and twelve subsidiary districts of oppressed people who exist in dire poverty, with inadequate food, housing, and health care and hardly any technology.

To reinforce the power of the Capitol by instilling fear in the population, once a year, two children from each region are selected by lots to fight to the death in a reality show. If that were not bad enough, the whole thing is utterly corrupt in multiple ways, plus the public bet on the outcome, and sponsors can sway the results. Did I mention these are children?

Some are as young as 12, though the narrator is A compulsory full-body wax on a teen seems rather pervy and who would want to bet on, let alone sponsor a child-killing tournament, even if it’s by helping one of the contestants? As the book keeps reminding readers, one person’s survival is only possible by the death of all the others. CRUELTY TO CHILDREN I realise that horrendous things are done to children around the world every day extreme poverty, child soldiers, sexual assault, genital mutilation etc , but in none of those cases is the sole intention that all but one child dies, and nor is it organised by the government for a sick combination of sport, entertainment, punishment and profit.

Humans often lack compassion, but I was never convinced by Collins’ world – especially the fact this outrage has continued for three generations it’s the 74th games , apparently without the Capitol even needing to invoke gods or supernatural powers to justify their cruelty! Could a barbaric annual tournament really be such a powerful incentive not to rise up in all that time? I don’t think so. BIG ISSUES Nevertheless, it tackles some big themes that are particularly pertinent to teens: the nature of friendship; divided loyalties; the difference between love and friendship; who to trust; whether the ends justify the means; the need to repay favours; the danger of power, wealth and celebrity; the corrupting influence of reality TV; the need for independence, and whether you can trust a parent who abandons you.

It all feels rather laboured to me, but it might not if I were a teen, which only reinforces my puzzlement at the number of adults who have enjoyed it.

I must be missing something. I predicted the main plot twist less than a quarter of the way in and the fact that Katniss is telling the story limits the possible outcomes , but the suspense was broken when it was made explicit way before the end.

There are some other twists between then and the final page, but by then I was rather annoyed with the whole thing. I suppose they had become inured to it, but on the other hand, that meant they knew the horror of it.

I just didn’t believe there was as little fear in them as there appeared to be – given that they are children. It can only be a tiny part of the USA because each district specialises in only one thing coal mining, agriculture etc and has just one town square that can accommodate everyone 8, people in District 12 and yet it’s a day’s train journey from District 12 to the Capitol.

It doesn’t seem like a very plausible settlement pattern in a post-disaster world, even given the totalitarian regime concentrating people in a few centres makes it easier to observe and perhaps control them, but it also creates more opportunities for opposition movements to develop.

It is even possible that they could all survive. The second point is what makes LotF a better book, in my opinion. Of course, there are other, more obvious, parallels with extreme “reality” shows such as “Survivor” and “I’m a Celebrity, get me out of here”, but the fundamental differences are not just that contestants in those shows do not fear for their lives, but that they are adults who have chosen to enter.

Any fans who read this will now hate me. I wanted to enjoy this book, and I read it all the way through, making notes as usual, but to no avail. Shelves: classic-young-adult , girls-rule , young-adult , utopia-dystopia , reviewed , chosen-girls.

It is beautiful for the unflinching way it shows you, as a reader, your own willingness to disregard people who are different from you – how you are the Capitol audience. But, it is important as a story about girls. I had not initially thought about articulating that point because it seemed so obvious to me, and I am bad at recognizing my own assumptions.

Lately, though, I have seen so many people, both men and women, acting as though this remarkable book is a piece of fluff that I realized maybe what I love most about The Hunger Games is not as obvious as it seems. To me, this series is important because it is a landmark departure from the traditional story about girls. Too often, stories objectify women. When I say stories objectify girls, I mean they talk about girls as though they are fleshlights that sometimes have handy dandy extra gadgets such as an all-purpose cleaning mechanism and food dispensing function.

Sidebar: if you are inclined to now google the word “fleshlight,” I encourage you to consult the urban dictionary definition here before doing that, as the google results will probably be NSFW and also NSF those of you whose parents might check your browsing history.

Do parents know how to do that? Sorry for the sidebar, I am just intending to make an explicit point, and now I am feeling uncomfortable about what that explicit point might mean to the target audience of this book. Girls, you are probably badass like Katniss, and you are definitely not a fleshlight.

Back to my rant about typical objectification in storytelling: often the girls fleshlights have fancy outer designs because it makes the fleshlights happy to be fancy. Sometimes they have skeeeeeery castration functions , and other times they work as helpful databases for music or video games or whatever UR into.

A lot of times, I will hear people refer to this type of objectification as treating women like they are just a vagina, or a pair of boobs, but I think there is something to the stories that is less human and more sexbot machine than that complaint covers.

So, in all of those links, I have tried to include books written by men and by women because I think that women think of ourselves this way almost as often as men think of us this way. The link from The Ugly Truth , for example, shows both a man and a woman treating women like fleshlights. I have also included both books I love and books I hate because, ultimately, I do think girls adopt this story about themselves, and I also think we can pretty easily identify with a male protagonist and disregard female characters who look nothing like humans.

For example, The Sun Also Rises is one of my favorite books in the whole world, even though it does not contain any women who resonate with my experience of humans. And I don’t think it’s necessarily bad that I can enjoy stories where women are only fleshlights, as long as I can still be whoever I want to be without a positive role model. I think it’s good to enjoy stories and take what we can get from them, and so I don’t regret that I love The Sun Also Rises.

In seeing some male reactions to The Hunger Games , I am reminded that most men do not identify with female protagonists the way women have been trained to identify with male protagonists. This seems like a huge disadvantage for men to be in, to me, and if you are a man reading this review, I would ask you to check out your bookshelves.

How many female authors are on your shelves? How many of the books those authors wrote have no central male character? If you have a minute after that, check the shelves of a woman you are friends with and see how many of her books were written by men or have no central female character.

Odds are the results will be pretty different. Katniss is strong and broken, and powerful in her brokenness. Masculinity does not have to mean emotional cowardice. Hopefully, we never think of our primary purpose in life, in the way so many stories think of it, as making penises erect. Hopefully, we never think of ourselves as gadgets that are super fun for other people. Yes, it is also a poignant critique of reality TV and Western callousness about the catastrophes caused by industrialization in the developing world, but that, too, resonates with me in many ways because of its remarkably feminine voice.

It absolutely makes sense to me that this book is not for everyone because of its violence, but I still think that it is objectively important because it shows a perspective that seems authentically feminine to me — that talks like a girl, not like a sexy, fancy gadget.

The Hunger Games is one that does, and it does so in way that is beautiful and important. I want to die as myself. I don’t want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I’m not. I keep wishing I could think of a way to That I’m more than just a piece in their Games.

You’re the one who wasn’t paying attention. Of course, I loved Peeta! How can “I don’t know how to say it exactly. How can I not? He is perfect! But Katniss? She is so strong and bad-ass but she always misunderstands Peeta! It’s so obvious that he loves her but she is in denial! She is so stupid!! And when she realizes his feelings, she just hurt him! Let’s start from the beginning! What is Hunger Games?

Every year, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 were selected from each of the twelve districts as tributes, who train for a week and then are sent into an arena to fight to the death. Only one tribute can win the games. This competition is showed to television to be seen by all citizens. So, Katniss’ little sister, Prim, is selected for the games, but Katniss took her place to save her. I volunteer as tribute! He protected her but I will admit she protected him as well!

She risked her life to get the medicine needed to heal his leg. But how can she not see that he is madly in love with her? I loved it when he told her about her singing for the music class, that’s when Peeta realized he was in love with her when he saw that the birds were listening like they did for her father. And right when your song ended, I knew – just like your mother – I was a goner,” Peeta says. Very deep. He is her best friend! At the beginning, she said that she never saw him that way and now what?

She is confusing me. Please, not love triangle again!! I liked Gale but no! He won the Hunger Games of his time. He is also Katniss’ and Peeta’s mentor. It seems at first that he doesn’t like Katniss very much but at the Hunger Games he helped her more than he helped Peeta.

He always supported her in his way. She was the year-old female tribute from District I really liked that Katniss allied with Rue. They were amazing together. But Rue died. I understand only one can win our case two but I felt so sad when she died.

Not only her though. A lot innocent kids die because of the Capitol. It’s not fair.