The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Is Here

[nyys]

Re: The Hunger Games: One Week Away

For those who have not picked it up yet, Borders has a 50% off coupon good through the 30th for Mockingjay. You have to be a member of their rewards program to use it, but sign-up is free and only takes an email address at the register, or I think you can sign-up online and you will get a temp card to print out.

Here's the link to the coupon, though I'm not sure if this is a link that will only work for me or not since it's 'attached' to my account.

http://www.bordersmedia.com/coup/20100824mockingjay50.html?cmpid=SL_20100824

If it doen't work, my bad, but you can still get it if you sign-up, just do so online and search for the current coupons for members.

I just finished up my 'current' book on Monday, but I'm torn since it was so good I want to read the sequel now, and there's Mockingjay staring me in the face. Argh!

 

[Killer Lawnmower]

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Read Mockingjay!!!!! I'm on page 200. Its pretty awesome so far.

 

[Killer Lawnmower]

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Sorry for the double post.
I just finished Mockingjay. Quite the ending. I just....grrrr. Not the way I wanted it to end. Its sooo sad to me. Breaks my heart.

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Peeta <3 Katniss

 

[Flame Gryphon]

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Sorry for the double post.
I just finished Mockingjay. Quite the ending. I just....grrrr. Not the way I wanted it to end. Its sooo sad to me. Breaks my heart.

Spoiler Alert!

Peeta <3 Katniss

It was an amazing book...other than the Epilogue...

 

[nyys]

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Read Mockingjay!!!!! I'm on page 200. Its pretty awesome so far.

I went with the sequel to the other book I just finished. Still need to get off my but and go buy Mockingjay.

 

[Mossman]

Re: The Hunger Games: One Week Away

For those who have not picked it up yet, Borders has a 50% off coupon good through the 30th for Mockingjay. You have to be a member of their rewards program to use it, but sign-up is free and only takes an email address at the register, or I think you can sign-up online and you will get a temp card to print out.

Thanks! Got the coupon, and there was no "limit one book" so I got one for my daughter and one for my classroom.

 

[Killer Lawnmower]

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Sorry for the double post.
I just finished Mockingjay. Quite the ending. I just....grrrr. Not the way I wanted it to end. Its sooo sad to me. Breaks my heart.

Spoiler Alert!

Peeta <3 Katniss

It was an amazing book...other than the Epilogue...

I know. It just didn't seem that...similar to the rest of the book. Just didn't fit in. And I wanted....

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to see her with Gale.

 

[nyys]

Re: The Hunger Games: One Week Away

For those who have not picked it up yet, Borders has a 50% off coupon good through the 30th for Mockingjay. You have to be a member of their rewards program to use it, but sign-up is free and only takes an email address at the register, or I think you can sign-up online and you will get a temp card to print out.

Thanks! Got the coupon, and there was no "limit one book" so I got one for my daughter and one for my classroom.

 

[rednax]

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I was on vacation at Disney and got home today. I got Mockingjay at the airport, but am only at like page 10.

~Rednax

 

[Fedex worker]

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I just finished Mockingjay

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The ending literally almost made me cry. I have NEVER cried at any book or movie before. This one just plain freakin' sad.

 

[NightSwipe]

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I'm reading Mockingjay now. I'm on Chapter 19.

/\ That spoiler is really tempting right now...

 

[Fedex worker]

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I'm reading Mockingjay now. I'm on Chapter 19.

/\ That spoiler is really tempting right now...

It doesn't reveal any important info, just the mood.

 

[LordEsenwienIV]

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Finished the book a couple of days ago.

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It's depressing

 

[Onacara]

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Finished the book a couple of days ago.

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It's depressing

The title alone kind lets you know it isnt going to be too cheery

 

[rednax]

I need to finish Mockingjay. I'm dying to know why everyone else is saying. Why am I even posting this. I should be reading.

~Rednax, noting this will be the first book he's finished in months

 

[Mossman]

I have about 60 pages to go!

 

[rednax]

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I did not like the ending. I was hoping for Katniss to kill President Snow by breaking into his mansion. I did not want Prim to die. I wanted Katniss to end up with Gale. I did not want Katniss to vote yes on having more Games.

Overall, there was too much death for my preference. And everywhere you turned they were talking about suicide. The Avoxes also had very little role in this whole thing. I was really hoping that Katniss would have some sort of big finale where she barely kills Snow. That irked me almost as much as Katniss then killing Coin. The first two parts were by far the best part of the book. Even though, this was still my least favorite book in the series. I wonder if
they'll change anything in the movie version.

Now I have a couple questions. Why did Katniss shoot Coin?

It mentions that the arenas have been torn down. So was there ever a Games for the Capitol Children?

~Rednax

 

[Flame Gryphon]

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I did not like the ending. I was hoping for Katniss to kill President Snow by breaking into his mansion. I did not want Prim to die. I wanted Katniss to end up with Gale. I did not want Katniss to vote yes on having more Games.

Overall, there was too much death for my preference. And everywhere you turned they were talking about suicide. The Avoxes also had very little role in this whole thing. I was really hoping that Katniss would have some sort of big finale where she barely kills Snow. That irked me almost as much as Katniss then killing Coin. The first two parts were by far the best part of the book. Even though, this was still my least favorite book in the series. I wonder if
they'll change anything in the movie version.

Now I have a couple questions. Why did Latniss shoot Coin?

It mentions that the arenas have been torn down. So was there ever a Games for the Capitol Children?

~Rednax

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Gee, maybe because Coin tried to kill Katniss, THEN killed Prim?
Okay, sarcasm done now. The truth is is that Coin would have gained more from Prim's death than Snow, who would have probably been destroyed by the populace. Also, it was just about proven Coin tried to kill Katniss with Peeta, so her then killing a whole bunch of people doesn't seem that far-fetched.

 

[NightSwipe]

Finished the book last night.

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It didn't happen the way I expected, to be honest. I thought that Katniss and Gale would end up together. And don't even get me started on the epilogue. But all in all, it was a good book.

 

[Mossman]

Finished yesterday.

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My least favorite of the three, but still a good book. One thing I didnt like- Collins tried to make the invasion of the Capitol feel like another go in the arena, but it didn't work- Katniss's frequent allusions to the invasion feeling like being back in the arena felt forced.

One of the interesting twists to me was the revelation (without Collins coming out and saying it) that District 13 doesn't value individual freedom any more than the Capitol does. 13 controls its citizens in different ways, and for different reasons, but in the big picture, the end result is the same. I think it made Katniss's desire for vengeance the only believable motive she could have had for being the Mockingjay.

I didn't like Katniss voting for another round of games, but it fits with her character. She's always been a person of contradictions- capable of compassion and vindictiveness. I also expected a showdown with Snow, but her decision to kill Coin was a nice touch. Killing her saved Panem (we hope) from another Snow, because Coin was every bit the dictator and manipulator that Snow was. She hid it better, and did what she did in the name of fighting evil, but she would have been just as bad. Also, Katniss killing Coin fits perfectly with Katniss's unpredictability- harkening back to the arrow she fired at the gamemakers in the first book, as well as the many times she surprised the gamemakers.

I liked getting to know the Finnick character and hated that he died.

Can't make up my mind about her ending up with Peeta. I think I would have been dissatisfied either way. At least she didn't marry Haymitch.