Amen. Though I'm not sure it's the frequency that has increased, but instead, the level of horrifying realistic detail.

Even in WOT it's not a forced celibacy rule, just a cultural norm among magic users. (which is in some ways worse, since rules are easier to change than culture).

No one else can have her! We Canadians get to keep her forever.

In a way, it does matter to all us Earthlings.

I just listened to the cover, and I was kind of bored after about a minute.

I have no doubt that this is true. But I also don't think that someone sat down and said "Hmmm, growing most of our food in a region that can't sustain it sounds like a GREAT idea. Let's enforce it with barbed wire and guns".

More love for 9 Forever

That's Pastafarian :P

It looks like they had to get a whole set of custom mannequins just to get the proportions right. I don't think you can get that kind of mannequin *ahem* off the rack.

Yeah. 12 produces ALL the coal and ALL the energy for everybody - one of the others makes ALL the food... etc. They have system where if any single district goes down for any reason, be it rebellion or plague, all the other ones are totally screwed. It's a recipe for disaster, and the worst part is that they…

It annoys me, because Batteries is probably the worst possible explanation for the Machines keeping all the people alive, when there are so many better sci-fi things you could use instead.

I'd posit that institutionalized child murder is the least of the problems with the world in the Hunger games. Like, who the hell though that putting all the food production with one isolated population who could be easily wiped out by one errant disaster was a great idea?

Hint: It's people

I've always had problems with the setup in the Hunger Games (This is informed only by having read the first book, so if later ones resolve this, feel free to tell me so)

This has led me to the horrible image of someone shaving their tongue

Ah good old Red flavour ... Not a patch on Blue flavour though.

I haven't read the books, but I think I had a feeling that something like this was coming, because when all the murdering started, I wasn't as surprised as I should have been (some of that could have been my dad, who has read them going "OH NOOOOES. BAD THINGS" like the walking spoiler-machine he is).

Bravo.

You are thinking about gender the way that humans think about gender - and how that must, by necessity impact the Doctor's identity, since gender is very much tied up with human identity. But Timelords might think about gender and gender identity in a completely different way - especially since it seems established…

Interested in this, since I've read a couple of these, but I sort of have to wonder how they will deal with the books more... problematic... depictions of gay people and homosexuality.