alsjdalkjsdlsadj THE VORKOSIGAN SAGA, OMG! LASKJDKLASDKFADSH MILES! AND IVAN! And...and...EVERYONE! ALDJASKLDjALD ANSDKASJDJKHFAKJDG JASDGKJAGSDKJAGSJFKA SKDHGASKDJGJAKSDG JADGKJAGSDJKAS GDKJAFHKJAGSDKJSGADaljhdlkasdlLAHJDLKAH Excuse me if i'm stuck in capslock-land, but it's one of my favorite things EVER. It got me through you-know-what. And as silly as it sounds, but I kept thinking "if Miles can do it, so can I".
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, I was reading Lois McMaster Bujold's blog and she said she finished the new book, which will be aaaaaall about Ivan. I am SO excited, you have no idea!
Re: The hunger games. I think you might like Mockingjay more than Catching Fire. Me? It was the opposite. I liked the first book a lot (it was my favorite of the bunch), then came Catching Fire and then Mockingjay, but I won't spoil you with why I think so until you're all done with the trilogy.
Why in the world that seems to be highly technologically developed people are still using coal? Why are they using manual labour? Also, when technology is developed well enough the production of material goods becomes very cheap which leads to the overall increase in the quality of life. This is the law of technological development. Why not in Panem?
The way I read the whole thing? It wasn't about coal at all. Or about the technology or economy for that matter either. Technology was kept away from the people of the colonies to keep them in check and "ignorant", if you pass me that term. It was a way to control them. Why, then, a technologically advanced society would choose coal, of all things, and not, say, enslave poorer colonies by having them build something useful for the Capitol? I think it was yet another way to control them. For the ppl in the colonies what went on in the Capitol was more of a vague feeling. They knew the Capitol had it all, from technology to money and power, but it was more of a vague notion imho, not something they could very well imagine and that's because the Capitol kept them in the dark. And don't forget how isolated each colony was: from the other colonies and from the Capitol as well. I actually thought this bit of worldbuilding wasn't as faily as you find it. Is it perfect? Nope, but I could buy it.
Also? It's possible you anad your friends have talked about all this already. If you did, sorry. I'm too tired to read everything. Sorry, sorry. *hangs head*
PS: you know hwat I loved about the series? The twists. Maybe other readers appreciated them as well.
PPS: okay, I re-read my reaction to Mockingjay and I take it back. You might find it more irritating than CF.
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Excuse me if i'm stuck in capslock-land, but it's one of my favorite things EVER. It got me through you-know-what. And as silly as it sounds, but I kept thinking "if Miles can do it, so can I".
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, I was reading Lois McMaster Bujold's blog and she said she finished the new book, which will be aaaaaall about Ivan. I am SO excited, you have no idea!
Re: The hunger games. I think you might like Mockingjay more than Catching Fire. Me? It was the opposite. I liked the first book a lot (it was my favorite of the bunch), then came Catching Fire and then Mockingjay, but I won't spoil you with why I think so until you're all done with the trilogy.
Why in the world that seems to be highly technologically developed people are still using coal? Why are they using manual labour? Also, when technology is developed well enough the production of material goods becomes very cheap which leads to the overall increase in the quality of life. This is the law of technological development. Why not in Panem?The way I read the whole thing? It wasn't about coal at all. Or about the technology or economy for that matter either. Technology was kept away from the people of the colonies to keep them in check and "ignorant", if you pass me that term. It was a way to control them. Why, then, a technologically advanced society would choose coal, of all things, and not, say, enslave poorer colonies by having them build something useful for the Capitol? I think it was yet another way to control them. For the ppl in the colonies what went on in the Capitol was more of a vague feeling. They knew the Capitol had it all, from technology to money and power, but it was more of a vague notion imho, not something they could very well imagine and that's because the Capitol kept them in the dark. And don't forget how isolated each colony was: from the other colonies and from the Capitol as well. I actually thought this bit of worldbuilding wasn't as faily as you find it. Is it perfect? Nope, but I could buy it.
Also? It's possible you anad your friends have talked about all this already. If you did, sorry. I'm too tired to read everything. Sorry, sorry. *hangs head*
PS: you know hwat I loved about the series? The twists. Maybe other readers appreciated them as well.
PPS: okay, I re-read my reaction to Mockingjay and I take it back. You might find it more irritating than CF.