The Good Books Thread/ATARnotes Book Club!

[Only Cheating Yourself]

The Messenger.

[Robert243]

yep

[Eugenet17]

Just finished reading the Hunger Games series in light of the film success. I found Mockingjay to be terrible and such a disappointment, everything seemed really rushed and crammed and the style seemed different to the first two :/

Hope the movies about it are better!

I've read many books in my lifetime and I have to say Mockingjay has to be one of the worst, if not the absolute worst books I've read right next to New Moon (lol)

[Only Cheating Yourself]

The kite runner is a good book!

[Robert243]

Don't want to turn this  into a hate thread , but The Hunger Games series is a bit overrated . Compared to other Utopian novels I've read , the Hunger Games is probably the worst one . It's just to unrealistic in my opinion , but that is just my opinion. There is another Utopian book which i just read called Divergent , in my opinion i think it is much better than the Hunger Games .

[charmanderp]

The Messenger.

This is also the name of an excellent book by Markus Zusak.

[brenden]

Don't want to turn this  into a hate thread , but The Hunger Games series is a bit overrated . Compared to other Utopian novels I've read , the Hunger Games is probably the worst one . It's just to unrealistic in my opinion , but that is just my opinion. There is another Utopian book which i just read called Divergent , in my opinion i think it is much better than the Hunger Games .

Hahaha, so I'm assuming you dislike essentially all fantasy stories because they're unrealistic?

[Robert243]

Hahaha, so I'm assuming you dislike essentially all fantasy stories because they're unrealistic?

No, but The Hunger Games is a Utopian novel , Utopian novels have to have some realism . I mean kids killing each other in an arena  for entertainment just seems to unrealistic IMO , but that's just my opinion .

[Russ]

No, but The Hunger Games is a Utopian novel

Oh really?

e; i'm not sure whether you're calling it utopian or you just confused it with dystopia

[pi]

No, but The Hunger Games is a Utopian novel , Utopian novels have to have some realism . I mean kids killing each other in an arena  for entertainment just seems to unrealistic IMO , but that's just my opinion .

Oh I didn't mind how realistic/unrealistic it was, I just didn't like how it was written. Everything was seemed so forced and rushed, and there were some pages I had to read a couple of times because they didn't make much sense the first time (eg. SPOILER when Prim dies and Katniss sounds like she's on magic mushrooms).

I've read many books in my lifetime and I have to say Mockingjay has to be one of the worst, if not the absolute worst books I've read right next to New Moon (lol)

Yeah I'd have to agree, a massive let-down.

[brenden]

Yeah the last book disappointed me 

[charmanderp]

Hahaha, so I'm assuming you dislike essentially all fantasy stories because they're unrealistic?

#HermioneGranger

On the topic of The Hunger Games, I personally couldn't stand any of the books. This might be because I read them all consecutively between the hours of 2am and 9am one Friday morning, but I echo that they go from bad to worse as the series progresses. Suzanne Collins took a pretty awesome, mature idea and then conveyed it through a rather irritating protagonist. Her writing style/authorial voice is IMHO much worse than Stephanie Meyer's - Katniss is so emotionally distanced and robotic and angsty and not in a way that might make you think it's a realistic affectation of her disposition.

The films on the other hand are great adaptations. Film Katniss is awesome.

[brenden]

Ah but if you read them all consecutively between 2am-9am, they can't be that bad

[Lolly]

The Hunger Games films are better than the books. The story is great but the writing style is a let-down. Everything from the costumes to the action scenes better suit a visual medium.
I think that's the first time I've said that about any book to film adaptation, ever.

[alondouek]

The Hunger Games films are better than the books. The story is great but the writing style is a let-down. Everything from the costumes to the action scenes better suit a visual medium.
I think that's the first time I've said that about any book to film adaptation, ever.

Did you ever read/see The Prestige? The film was better than the book imo