I wouldn’t be surprised if Beth was right about Jesus working in mysterious ways, though.

The fact that the respondent’s name is Beth, the whitest name possible, is the real cherry on top of this other-people-are-embarrassing sundae.

LMAO

I loved it. Thought it was a great ending to the series. I agree with the other commenter that it was a meditation on the effects of trauma in some ways. I thought Jennifer Lawrence carried the film well. You could tell however the scenes where Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s presence were missing. That was sad.

From my experience, the only movie that can even be in competition for greatness with its book counterpart is the Kite Runner.

Agreed! To put it simplicity-War isn’t a game.

I was really frustrated with the third book. I felt like the author rushed through the book, and there were parts that I had to read several times so I could keep track of what was going on. I know I love slow, wordy books (anything from late 1800s European, I’m all over), but come on. That last book needed to be two…

I should have clarified. I really didn’t like the back and forth Katniss had over the two guys. I might try to read them again.

Yes. This. I have PTSD and I appreciated the end being unfulfilling emotionally. Of course living through all that would leave you a different person, and having to keep going on after having so much of yourself decimated in war.

Cheers to that.

I am feeling pretty bitter today. Maybe I’m just a bitter person.

I do also maintain that her writing gets bogged down in the third book.

While I didn’t particularly like Mockingjay, I do agree that it was incredibly refreshing to have a hero who actually was effected by the horrors she’d seen. The PTSD was totally realistic and pretty much exactly what you’d expect.

I was really disappointed with the last half of Mockingjay the book, so I’m not surprised the movie turned out poorly too. It’s as if Suzanne Collins didn’t really know how to end the series and just thought “Well, might as well write some sort of crazy over-the-top climactic battle.”

Agreed. I loved the Harry Potter movies, though. Of course some things were lost, but I think they made the best decisions in what to cut and what not to. There were imperfections of course, but I wil always love them. I can’t think of another franchise that meant as much to me. Maybe Perks of Being a Wallflower as an…

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I think a lot of the themes you just mentioned would have been better served, when Collins is writing anyway, in a straight-up adult book, rather than in the YA genre. My problems with Collins are probably more about the writing itself and the ways in which she bogs herself down rather than any of the ideas, or…

“When you lose the internal monologue, you lose the point.”

I also liked the 3rd book for a lot of the same reasons