Friday, November 18, 2011

The Hunger Games.

I'm a bit late to the Hunger Games band wagon. But-dang!-what a band wagon!

Katniss is such a boss! If you haven't seen the trailor yet, go see it on YouTube. This movie will be epic. I haven't liked a book or a heroine so much since "The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo" and I'm not even sure Salander could take on the Games.

Now, back to Katniss, I love her so much as heroine. I have only read the first book but I already have a huge girl crush on her.

She's an amazing creation because for being a teenage girl, she is utterly selfless and determined. Despite the fact that Peeta is obviously in love with her, she only focuses on her mission to get out of the games and back home to her family. Honestly, how many girls do you know who would do that? I'm drawing a blank.

This is going to be one the best series in the coming years. They better have picked good actors because if this goes down the shoot tube like Twilight I will be very pissed off.

Don't worry, I do reviews for books that don't have movies made of them, just give me a few weeks.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Confessions of a cured Twihard.


I will just say this right now: Twilight is a scourge on man kind.

Why? You're probably asking. Well, other then the multi-million dollar cinematic spree that is happening this month for Breaking Dawn part one, Twilight is the bane of all evil.

Sure, there were some vampire-forbidden-love books that came out before Twilight. But trust me, just a few short years ago, you would not walk in to your local Barnes and Nobles and find a whole section dedicated to "Teen Paranormal Romance."

Bella and Edward and Jacob. The perfect love triangle all meshed together with Christian themes. You disagree? Stephanie Meyer is Mormon.

The best description of these books is the authors wet dream. There is nothing tangible about the characters, no sustainable reality. Edward is made of pure marble and Jacob can turn into a furry dog. Bella has no self preservation insticnts and for some reason vampires can be vegetarian.

Give me Anne Rice any day. I'd rather work my way through The Vampire: Lestat" then listen to a teenage girl complain about where her mass murdering boyfriend went.

I'm not bashing the whole paranormal section here. But just most of it.