Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
The Hunger Games video review all three books
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games video review all three books.
I sat down to compose a evaluation of these books, when i saw this ,i cannot do it or say it any greater than this, it hits the nail right on the head and gives the book all it warrants.These hunger games books,from the hunger games series, is the hunger games trilogy,after defying all odds Katniss Everdeen continues her adventures.This is a great series from Suzanne Collins.
And that was the point, I think.
This is the last of the trilogy buy it read it it is wonderful.
The Hunger Games video review all three books.
I sat down to compose a evaluation of these books, when i saw this ,i cannot do it or say it any greater than this, it hits the nail right on the head and gives the book all it warrants.These hunger games books,from the hunger games series, is the hunger games trilogy,after defying all odds Katniss Everdeen continues her adventures.This is a great series from Suzanne Collins.
And that was the point, I think.
This is the last of the trilogy buy it read it it is wonderful.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
I sat down to write a review of this book, when i saw this ,i can not do it or say it any better than this, it hits the nail right on the head and gives the book all it deserves.This hunger games book,from the hunger games series, is the third of the hunger games trilogy,after defying all odds Katniss Everdeen continues her adventures.This is a great series from Suzanne Collins.
This review is from: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3) (Hardcover)
This was a brilliant conclusion to the trilogy. I can only compare it to "Ender's Game" - and that is extremely high praise, indeed.
When I first closed the book last night, I felt shattered, empty, and drained.
And that was the point, I think. I'm glad I waited to review the book because I'm not sure what my review would have been.
For the first two books, I think most of us readers have all been laboring under the assumption that Katniss Everdeen would eventually choose one of the two terrific men in her life: Gale, her childhood companion or Peeta, the one who accompanied her to the Hunger Games twice. She'd pick one of them and live happily ever after with him, surrounded by friends and family. Somehow, along the way, Katniss would get rid of the awful President Snow and stop the evil Hunger Games. How one teenage girl would do all that, we weren't too sure, but we all had faith and hope that she would.
"Mockingjay" relentlessly strips aside those feelings of faith and hope - much as District 13 must have done to Katniss. Katniss realizes that she is just as much a pawn for District 13 as she ever was for the Colony and that evil can exist in places outside of the Colony.
And that's when the reader realizes that this will be a very different journey. And that maybe the first two books were a setup for a very different ride. That, at its heart, this wasn't a story about Katniss making her romantic decisions set against a backdrop of war.
This is a story of war. And what it means to be a volunteer and yet still be a pawn. We have an entirely volunteer military now that is spread entirely too thin for the tasks we ask of it. The burden we place upon it is great. And at the end of the day, when the personal war is over for each of them, each is left alone to pick up the pieces as best he/she can.
For some, like Peeta, it means hanging onto the back of a chair until the voices in his head stop and he's safe to be around again. Each copes in the best way he can. We ask - no, demand - incredible things of our men and women in arms, and then relegate them to the sidelines afterwards because we don't want to be reminded of the things they did in battle. What do you do with people who are trained to kill when they come back home? And what if there's no real home to come back to - if, heaven forbid, the war is fought in your own home? We need our soldiers when we need them, but they make us uncomfortable when the fighting stops.
All of that is bigger than a love story - than Peeta or Gale. And yet, Katniss' war does come to an end. And she does have to pick up the pieces of her life and figure out where to go at the end. So she does make a choice. But compared to the tragedy of everything that comes before it, it doesn't seem "enough". And I think that's the point. That once you've been to hell and lost so much, your life will never be the same. Katniss will never be the same. For a large part of this book, we see Katniss acting in a way that we can only see as being combat-stress or PTSD-related - running and hiding in closets. This isn't our Katniss, this isn't our warrior girl.
But this is what makes it so much more realistic, I think. Some may see this as a failing in plot - that Katniss is suddenly acting out of character. But as someone who has been around very strong soldiers returning home from deployments, this story, more than the other two, made Katniss come alive for me in a much more believable way.
I realize many out there will hate the epilogue and find it trite. At first, I did too. But in retrospect, it really was perfect. Katniss gave her life already - back when she volunteered for Prim in "The Hunger Games". It's just that she actually physically kept living.
The HBO miniseries, "Band of Brothers", has a quote that sums this up perfectly. When Captain Spiers says, "The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it."
But how do you go from that, to living again in society? You really don't. So I'm not sure Katniss ever really did - live again. She just ... kept going. And there's not really much to celebrate in that. Seeing someone keep going, despite being asked - no, demanded - to do unconscionably horrifying things, and then being relegated to the fringes of society, and then to keep going - to pick up the pieces and keep on going, there is something fine and admirable and infinitely sad and pure and noble about that. But the fact is, it should never happen in the first place.
And that was the point, I think.
This is the last of the trilogy buy it read it it is wonderful.
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I sat down to write a review of this book, when i saw this ,i can not do it or say it any better than this, it hits the nail right on the head and gives the book all it deserves.This hunger games book,from the hunger games series, is the third of the hunger games trilogy,after defying all odds Katniss Everdeen continues her adventures.This is a great series from Suzanne Collins.
This review is from: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3) (Hardcover)
This was a brilliant conclusion to the trilogy. I can only compare it to "Ender's Game" - and that is extremely high praise, indeed.
When I first closed the book last night, I felt shattered, empty, and drained.
And that was the point, I think. I'm glad I waited to review the book because I'm not sure what my review would have been.
For the first two books, I think most of us readers have all been laboring under the assumption that Katniss Everdeen would eventually choose one of the two terrific men in her life: Gale, her childhood companion or Peeta, the one who accompanied her to the Hunger Games twice. She'd pick one of them and live happily ever after with him, surrounded by friends and family. Somehow, along the way, Katniss would get rid of the awful President Snow and stop the evil Hunger Games. How one teenage girl would do all that, we weren't too sure, but we all had faith and hope that she would.
"Mockingjay" relentlessly strips aside those feelings of faith and hope - much as District 13 must have done to Katniss. Katniss realizes that she is just as much a pawn for District 13 as she ever was for the Colony and that evil can exist in places outside of the Colony.
And that's when the reader realizes that this will be a very different journey. And that maybe the first two books were a setup for a very different ride. That, at its heart, this wasn't a story about Katniss making her romantic decisions set against a backdrop of war.
This is a story of war. And what it means to be a volunteer and yet still be a pawn. We have an entirely volunteer military now that is spread entirely too thin for the tasks we ask of it. The burden we place upon it is great. And at the end of the day, when the personal war is over for each of them, each is left alone to pick up the pieces as best he/she can.
For some, like Peeta, it means hanging onto the back of a chair until the voices in his head stop and he's safe to be around again. Each copes in the best way he can. We ask - no, demand - incredible things of our men and women in arms, and then relegate them to the sidelines afterwards because we don't want to be reminded of the things they did in battle. What do you do with people who are trained to kill when they come back home? And what if there's no real home to come back to - if, heaven forbid, the war is fought in your own home? We need our soldiers when we need them, but they make us uncomfortable when the fighting stops.
All of that is bigger than a love story - than Peeta or Gale. And yet, Katniss' war does come to an end. And she does have to pick up the pieces of her life and figure out where to go at the end. So she does make a choice. But compared to the tragedy of everything that comes before it, it doesn't seem "enough". And I think that's the point. That once you've been to hell and lost so much, your life will never be the same. Katniss will never be the same. For a large part of this book, we see Katniss acting in a way that we can only see as being combat-stress or PTSD-related - running and hiding in closets. This isn't our Katniss, this isn't our warrior girl.
But this is what makes it so much more realistic, I think. Some may see this as a failing in plot - that Katniss is suddenly acting out of character. But as someone who has been around very strong soldiers returning home from deployments, this story, more than the other two, made Katniss come alive for me in a much more believable way.
I realize many out there will hate the epilogue and find it trite. At first, I did too. But in retrospect, it really was perfect. Katniss gave her life already - back when she volunteered for Prim in "The Hunger Games". It's just that she actually physically kept living.
The HBO miniseries, "Band of Brothers", has a quote that sums this up perfectly. When Captain Spiers says, "The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it."
But how do you go from that, to living again in society? You really don't. So I'm not sure Katniss ever really did - live again. She just ... kept going. And there's not really much to celebrate in that. Seeing someone keep going, despite being asked - no, demanded - to do unconscionably horrifying things, and then being relegated to the fringes of society, and then to keep going - to pick up the pieces and keep on going, there is something fine and admirable and infinitely sad and pure and noble about that. But the fact is, it should never happen in the first place.
And that was the point, I think.
This is the last of the trilogy buy it read it it is wonderful.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Bull Street is Fantastic
Bull Street is Fantastic
By David Lender
Bull Street I have read three books by Lender, and this is his finest yet. He is in his environment with tales of Wall Street. His other book The Gravy Train painted that world in vibrant and authentic realizim. Bull Street goes yet a phase further in diving deep into this world of sketchy character types, uncertain loyalties and double-cross deals. This story about a young man enticed by the greed he runs into, and then of his future struggle to clear his name after he's been tainted by an insider trading ring at his investment banking firm The trading ring involves the most powerful client at the firm, a man who is the premier takeover specialist of his era. The setup is similar to Grisham's The Firm, nevertheless, the plot entails twists that take it in a different direction. The tale attributes raw emotion that you experience at every step. It also has fantastic characters and a story that builds like a symphonic piece. This is a powerful book by a writer who has come into his own with a remarkable story told with compelling power. buy it you will love it.here's the link to buy the book or kindle download or click the Barnes @ noble link if you have the nook.
By David Lender
Bull Street I have read three books by Lender, and this is his finest yet. He is in his environment with tales of Wall Street. His other book The Gravy Train painted that world in vibrant and authentic realizim. Bull Street goes yet a phase further in diving deep into this world of sketchy character types, uncertain loyalties and double-cross deals. This story about a young man enticed by the greed he runs into, and then of his future struggle to clear his name after he's been tainted by an insider trading ring at his investment banking firm The trading ring involves the most powerful client at the firm, a man who is the premier takeover specialist of his era. The setup is similar to Grisham's The Firm, nevertheless, the plot entails twists that take it in a different direction. The tale attributes raw emotion that you experience at every step. It also has fantastic characters and a story that builds like a symphonic piece. This is a powerful book by a writer who has come into his own with a remarkable story told with compelling power. buy it you will love it.here's the link to buy the book or kindle download or click the Barnes @ noble link if you have the nook.
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Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.
FrFrom Bookmarks Magazine
Reviewers were happy to report that the Hunger Games trilogy is alive and well, and all looked forward to the third book in the series after this one's stunning conclusion. But they disagreed over whether Catching Fire was as good as the original book Hunger Games or should be viewed as somewhat of a "sophomore slump." Several critics who remained unconvinced by Katniss's romantic dilemma made unfavorable comparisons to the human-vampire-werewolf love triangle in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. But most reviewers felt that Catching Fire was still a thrill because Collins replicated her initial success at balancing action, violence, and heroism in a way that will enthrall young readers without giving them (too many) nightmares.
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