alexhortdog95;2142651; said:
If you don't mind me asking - what did you find so compelling about The Hunger Games? I read it in about a day and I wasn't very impressed with the book. Maybe I'm missing it?
I will say this - if they say that the movie is a well done interpretation of the book - they should have made that sucker R-rated then.
I glanced through it at the bookstore the other day. For some reason the first-person narrative felt jarring. Not sure why, but I didn't end up buying it.
I'm interested in anyone's recommendations for this series. I'll read them if they're worth the time, but if not, I'm cool just having seen the movie.
Books I've read recently:
I liked this better than I liked The Great Gatsby. For a first novel it was quite an achievement. It was a little pretentious, but eminently readable.
It was the kind of pulp-fiction crap you'd expect. I likely won't ever read them again.
I really liked both "further adventure" Sherlock Holmes books. If you're a Holmes fan, these are palatable continuations of the character. Watson gets thrown under the bus quite a bit, for reasons I do not understand, but they're good reads. One curious thing - both books seem to want to make Holmes some kind of closet romantic. In one he's hopelessly in love with a young blind girl, in the other he's been carrying on a secret affair with his landlady, Mrs. Hudson, right under Watson's oblivious nose for decades. I'm not sure why these authors feel the need to cast Holmes in this role when he's clearly a dedicated celibate, but they do. It's as jarring as if they had made Holmes French, but if you can look past that, both are entertaining, and quick, reads. I'll be picking up the rest of these books as time allows.
Currently reading this:
Only about 40-ish pages into it. Quite tedious so far, but we'll see. It came highly recommended.
Vonnegut definitely seems to have a fascinating train of thought. 
