So I'm going to finish the first book, but I think I will write about Catching Fire and Mockingjay in a much more minor capacity. Think four or five blog entries per. Okay? And I don't know if I will get started on that immediately, either. Sorry!
But we'll talk about some other stuff! What stuff? I'm not sure. I'm open to suggestion. I'm thinking about reading a John Green book, since people compare me to him so god damn frequently. Which one should I do? What else would you like to see? I don't know how much mileage we have left in Ask Nick Sullivan and the advice column, but we'll ride those as far as we can.
Let me hear your thoughts on this stuff, gang.
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Besides feeling strangely like I've just gotten dumped, why exactly are you less interested in writing about THG? And read Looking for Alaska so I can read along as well.
The Nick Sullivan bit is more about your wit and observations than the question being answered. I'm not tired of it and I say write on! As for John Green, yeah, do Alaska.
~Bob Caron
Yes, please read a John Green book! I think you should go with an Abundance of Katherines, but Looking for Alaska would work too.
I'm okay with your feelings regarding THG, I enjoy reading your blogs about it but it seems like you're not as "into it" as you were with the Twilight series. It may be because THG isn't nearly as ridiculous as Twilight was, which means there is less to rant and write about.
Looking For Alaska was what I was considering, but I also figured his new book wouldn't be a bad one to hit first.
And Daiya, it's not you, it's me. The book is good, but not great or terrible, so I feel like I have very little to say. So I'm just summarizing plot twice a week. Which sucks to write. It's just a drag. I mean, I'm sure the end of the book will pick up and I will have some fun, but the thought of going through it two more times depresses me.
You should do them in the order they were released, so start with Alaska.
I would be interested, at some point, in a discussion of the tone of THG vs. Twilight. THG is so relentlessly dark, which brought up some feelings for me related to darkness in YA fiction in general. So I'd love a conversation about that, when we're all done.
Aside from that, I support you in all your ventures, and i can understand why you'd feel less passionate about THG. After giving your heart and soul to Twilight, which was spectacularly bad and deserving of more quasi-scholarly attention, The Hunger Games is a different thing altogether. It's not bad at all. It's pretty well-written, actually, and its very lack of awfulness probably makes it less fun to make fun of.
Maybe we should all watch a TV show together and talk about it. Something that's all done, so everyone can watch the whole thing, and with more than one season, so you have some time to dig in. Maybe even something kind of epic, with a big fan base.
One of the things that was fun about you writing about Twilight was that you were bringing a fresh perspective to something already kind of talked to death. So you bringing your fresh (the most fresh, fresh to death) perspective to something else equally monumental, but in a different medium, might be fun.
I'm open to ideas. Degrassi? 90210? My So-Called Life? Something.
Kira, a TV show might be possible, but for me anyway it's actually way more logistically time consuming? Like, I NEVER can find the time to watch TV. Reading I can do anywhere. But I suppose if we took it slow I could manage. THE WIRE? FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS? THE WEST WING?
Fun fact, the first thing I started doing on this blog (or one of the first) was BLOGGING THE WEST WING, but I gave up after one episode because I realized it would take forever.
I'm new to this whole blogging thing....but I have been following your blog since Twilight and now I kind of feel like a creepy stalker. Please take that as a compliment. Your writing is why I am here so by all means, pick what feel you can write about and I'll keep reading.
Kira- best idea ever. Degrassi is so awful, especially the newest ones.
AHA! I knew it! I knew there was someone out there who didn't worship THG!!!
Ok I'm exaggerating (a lot) but I completely understand where you are coming from. The main reason it feels draggy (real word fyi) is because EVERYthing is said outright. Social injustice? Katniss spells it out for you. Inspiring hero, good v. evil, relationship problems- all spelled out.
There's no undercurrent of homo/xeno/etc phobia and classism and whatever as there was in the Twilight series, but there's also no thematic goodies to unearth either.
So basically, reading through the series at 6 chapters per post would be perfectly fine- BUT what you should focus on blogging is your predictions for what will happen, and your reactions to what does happen. Short recaps are probably fine since most people reading your blog already read the books (or read ahead of you or something).
And as usual, your ability to make jokes about any boring/tense part in the book is what makes these posts really good :)
Also, just noticed the post title; daww, "family meeting" how cute :D
I agree with you, Zac. THG is more boring than Twilight, and it'll be time to move on when you finish. I really like the idea of Looking for Alaska.
This comment comes in 4 parts.
Part 1. I totally understand not wanting to blog the Hunger Games trilogy this in depth. I'm enjoying it, but I'm not passionate about it either.
Part 2. I love the advice column.
Part 3. You don't remind me of John Green, but I think he is relevant because of his youtube fame, his young adult novels, and his awesomeness. I've read all of his books and Looking for Alaska is the only one I don't like. Paper Towns is a similar story but is sooo much better. With that said, I think you should blog Looking for Alaska because I'd like to see it from others' perspectives and discuss it.
Part 4. I feel like there's a 90% chance you won't blog Degrassi but I would love it if you did cause I love that show. Oh those Canadian teens and their drama, eh. It's pretty well written for a teen drama that tries to cover issues that teens go though. Degrassi Junior High, the original from the 80's, is amazing in it's 80's-ness and it's Canadian-ness. When I watch it I'm reminded that irony wasn't invented until the 90's. And it's on hulu!
See, I am one of those people who love the books, but I was definitely more into your Twilight recaps than this. It is really hard to write about things you feel sort of lukewarm about and it's pretty easy to tell in the recaps that that's how you feel. It's a lot harder to keep analysis from being dry if you don't have strong feelings either way and a hell of a lot less fun to do.
If you're going to do John Green, I fifth (sixth?) Looking for Alaska, but Paper Towns was ok, too. I kind of like Kira's TV show idea, though.
I'm with Alaska too. My faverite book of his! Plus I can see you enjoying it. It has teenagers acting, you know, like actual teenagers.
I am an admitted Twilight fan (do I really have to say Twi-hard? Ugh.) and I love THG, but for some reason I enjoyed the Twilight posts more than THG posts. I think that your Twilight posts literally (pun intended!) shook me out of my Twilight haze. I saw the misogynistic and pedophiliac undertones for the first time by reading your blog.
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