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    Quote Originally Posted by mdk View Post
    Saw the movie, thought it was dumb. Why was she on fire? Why? What was the point of that?
    I've read all of the books, and watched the movie, so I'll explain. Each district has their own way of making money and surviving. Katniss's district is coal, District 11 is fruit, ect. So for the games, each district has to have some type of costume to represent what their district does. Seeing as Katniss and Peeta were from the coal district their designers decided to capture everyone's attention and gain them favor by setting them on fire. No real point to it, actually, but to give her an identifier to the people of the capitol.

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    I honestly couldn't care less whether the movie is good or not. But I read the book after half the people I know started orgasming at the very mention of it's name and found it very cliche, totally predictable, and an altogether unremarkable read.
    In all honesty, it gets better through the series. Although the last one was a bit of a disappointment since she spends half the time in a hospital bed >.>

    EDIT: Though I do agree with you, just about everything in all the books was rather predictable.


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    Quote Originally Posted by mdk View Post
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    TBH the book is alot better in my opinion but I have my personal gripes with it. I just conected and cared for the chars more than the story line or how it was writen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mdk View Post
    Shoot if that's your metric go read something from Vietnam -- may I recommend "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien?
    Oh. I love that book. One of my all time favorites, and one of the only books that has ever made me cry.
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    never read the book, never seen the movie. was considering it, but then the fandom kinda burst out like it was twilight or something. unsure if it's worth seeing since everything that's to be known about it has been spoiled by the world already.




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    Quote Originally Posted by Tristian View Post
    everything that's to be known about it has been spoiled by the world already.
    I am going to agree with the above.

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    While I did love the books, they are a bit over rated. The story was great, but it was written poorly.

    Quote Originally Posted by mdk View Post
    Saw the movie, thought it was dumb. Why was she on fire? Why? What was the point of that?
    Maybe if you read the books you'd know the reason.

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    Quote Originally Posted by love that panda View Post
    While I did love the books, they are a bit over rated. The story was great, but it was written poorly.
    This, pretty much.




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    I haven't read the books, but I have this natural tendency to avoid anything that becomes the focus of Twilight fans' literary migrations. Maybe if they had some sort of parallel to Team Jacob I would take the time to read it but to be honest I have better things to do than read a book with the expectation of not enjoying it.

    Like posting on here, for example.

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    In general most things that become extremely popular are overrated to some degree.


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