When you look at this book, does it just make you feel like, "man, this book is thick...I'm just gonna read something else"? I remember feeling like the whole time I was reading it. Then I got the second one from the library and just stared at it on my shelf for a bit before returning it.

I know! I feel terrible about that though. Oh the guilt! I seriously haven't picked this up since the update and I had barely started. The print is fairly large though so that helps! Depending on my mood, I sometimes judge whether or not to read a book by how much "white space" is on the pages.

lol been there, done that. I read this book and I found it a bit strange sometimes.......I don't think I want to read the second book :/

I had convinced myself that it was just about kids surviving in a dystopian environment without adults around and then all the sudden they have superpowers! I was like "Whaaa?" I don't usually like to know much about books before I read them but that took me by surprise for some reason. I had just kinda picked it up without reading anything about it and wasn't expecting that.

DITTO. I started out reading it and I was getting kind of into it--kids alone, people disappearing, stuck in a bubble--I was ready for a scraping-it-together-fight-for-survival-whilst-figuring-out-why-they-are-in-a-bubble book but then they started getting superpowers and I was like WTF? I think I gave it four stars because I like the first part of the book. And I will eventually read the 2nd (and maybe the 3rd) to find out if they ever get out of that frakking bubble.

There is going to be 8 books, I heard. That might take a while.

Geez! I thought three or four was going to be difficult. Excuse me while I search for an external hard drive that I can plug into my brain...

Morgan wrote: "There is going to be 8 books, I heard. That might take a while."

OMG. I need to wrap my head around that one.

8?? Really? That's a long time to spend in that freaking dome. I would certainly start feeling claustrophobic. Not to mention all the little evil things that are in there with them ...

Evil things?! Haven't gotten to that part yet. What the hell IS this book? Kiddie Xmen meets Supernatural? Interesting...

Wait. It gets even more convoluted.

More convoluted than miniature superpowered mutants mixed with demon-slash-creature slayers living under a dome with disappearing adults? Well shi-at!!

Yup soon you will get a whole bunch of aliens/mysticism/more Lord of the Flies/more starvation/anarchy....and more.

Oh my God!!! Do they become cannibals? I'm so calling it. This series sounds delightful! Lol.

Ah hell. One of the books IS called Hunger, isn't it? I was totally kidding but now I'm worried.

Yeah, I heard that in book three they run out of food and start eating each other.

...okayl, that is a lie I just made up. But Morgan rated this book 5 stars and is evidently keeping up with the series, so they must be pretty good!

Oh brother. Is that something brown on your nose? Hahaha. I kid, I kid. Morgan does give good review, so I digress. So do you, Flann! Love for everyone!! (Now who's the brownnoser, lol. I win!)

There's enough love to go around to everyone! I have to admit--When I meet people in real life and then find out they are on Goodreads, I like them a little bit more. People on here are at least 26.87% cooler than the general public.

No, no. I'd say at least a solid 27%. At least.

I've had much more fun talking about books on this website than I ever did at school. And I've gotten infintely more interested in larger amounts of books, most of them I wouldn't have found without Goodreads.

Goodreaders 4 life!

I thought this moment requires some cheesiness.

Hallelujah!

Amen, sister. Preach it!

LOL but I agree, I am a bibliophile for life thanks to GR

I've read Gone. It was good. It kind of reminded me of a Stephen King type book done for YA. I've read up to book 3 but I am now tired of the series and 8 books is way too much. The books look huge, but one of the nice things about YA literature is that the books have large type and are double spaced. So a 600 page book in YA is really like a 300 page adult book.

Yeah, I just look at it and think "meh". Maybe having it as an ebook would make it easier since I can't actually see how thick the book is. Lol.

I just won the new one in the giveaways. Since I've only read the first one, I have the other two (and the new one) just staring at me on the shelf.

These books do like to stare, don't they?

Always staring, always judging.

Stop looking at me, swan!! Uh, I mean, book. That was weird. My brain has random movie quote spasms where I have to spurt out certain words. Arg.

*sings* Yo ho, Yo ho. A pirate's life for me.

Shampoo is better!

Conditioner is better! It makes the hair silky and smoooooth.

Rrrrr you going to the mall later?

Ooooh! The "c" is silent.

*hums* O, back to school. Back to school.

If peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis.

I'm in the minority here since I love the Gone series. Granted, the first one is a bit weak, but the two sequels thus far really up the ante. Michael Grant handles a large cast of characters well, and the story -- though plagued by many science fiction elements -- is more about choices, survival, and the human factor. The story is very much a study on whether actions can truly determine whether a person is 'good' or 'evil' when circumstances are so harsh and terrible. All of the characters are flawed individuals (think along the lines of the cast of Lost), and it is often difficult to determine just who is a hero and who is a villain. Also, this story follows the thought of 'order descending into chaos' and 'things can only get worse and worse,' so that's why I would classify it as dystopian. (That's my plug for the series, I guess. :) )

Anyway, with all that being said. . .I am hoping the series will be six books and not eight. Eight just seems far too much. :(

You should add that to your review, Jill. Lol. Now I want to read it. Just tell it to stop staring at me already! I really miss all the good character shows with large casts. What the hell happened to TV this year?

I know! I love the Gone series, but its more of a guilty pleasure than something I actively recommend. I have no idea where the series is going. It just keeps getting darker and more complex. By the rate that Grant is publishing these, and if the series is still 8 books long, the last one won't be published until I graduate college!

I miss Lost. Sooooo much.

I miss Lost, and Battlestar Galactica, and Buffy, and Stargate, and Alias, and Firefly. *sobs*

I'm watching season 1 of Buffy. I've come to realize that I love Willow. I loved Alias and Lost.

How many seasons did Firefly last?

Just one. *sobs more*

I'm watching season one of Buffy, too, AH. Gotta love Netflix.

I've never heard of Firefly.....*goes to google*

But yay! Another Buffy convert. Whooooo hoooo. I am so doing my job.

@Morgan--WHAAAAT? I love Firefly. It's available to watch for free on Netflix and Hulu. (usually)

Wait... did somebody say Firefly? Oh man, don't get me started. My heart..it is broken. It didn't even last a whole season. 13 episodes! just 13. *sobs piteously*

Your piteously sobbing totally kicked my sobbing's ass. However, I feel your pain. We all do. *pats Tina on the shoulder* It's okay. At least now we have Castle. Though that hardly makes up for it.

Lyndsey wrote: "I miss Lost, and Battlestar Galactica, and Buffy, and Stargate, and Alias, and Firefly. *sobs*"

I'm with you on everything but Lost (watched first season and lost -haha- interest) and Battlestar (saw a couple of eps and was oh so bored and threw in the towel).

Bored with Battlestar? Really? It became amazing. Not sure when it was that you stopped but every episode seemed to get more intense.

However, Lost was.... tedious. You had to really be in love with the characters to stick with it. I guess BSG is kind of the same way.

I am reading it right now :) About 20% into it.