So, okay. Because my best friend read this thing in an entirely different way than I did, I reread parts of it, and I am convinced the last quarter or so is absolute genius; I really like it quite a lot, much better than on first reading (I still don't like the first three quarters so much, mind you.)
Speaking of the entirely different reading: question for you. Do you think Katniss was seriously voting for another Hunger Games at the end? I couldn't even conceive that you could take her vote seriously, given the subsequent events; my friend was utterly convinced her vote was serious.
It makes a very large difference. If the vote was a feint, that whole part is brilliant. If it was serious, it's lame and sloppy writing. In my opinion, anyway.
It's just interesting to me that my friend and I (both of us reasonably literate people) could read it so differently, and not even admit the possibility of the alternate reading.
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Date: 2010-11-01 10:59 pm (UTC)Speaking of the entirely different reading: question for you. Do you think Katniss was seriously voting for another Hunger Games at the end? I couldn't even conceive that you could take her vote seriously, given the subsequent events; my friend was utterly convinced her vote was serious.
It makes a very large difference. If the vote was a feint, that whole part is brilliant. If it was serious, it's lame and sloppy writing. In my opinion, anyway.
It's just interesting to me that my friend and I (both of us reasonably literate people) could read it so differently, and not even admit the possibility of the alternate reading.