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Who else HATED the ending of this book?
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Jan 24, 2013 01:58PM
Hurry and change it Anna my heart is breaking TT ^ TT
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Hot get it? No I'm joking I seriously like it better when it's hot lol
Seriously well I guess it does give us an excuse to stay inside and drink hot chocolate lol
Okay...Fave movie?
Oh hey Anna sorryz I gotta go I'll talk 2 U tomorrow K?
Oh and P.S mine is hunger games (sniff) Bye!
I didn't hate the ending of the book, yet I wasn't a huge fan of it either. I felt like it was all crammed together.
Anybody else noticed this pattern with dystopians (especially trilogies)?1. Thinks world is perfect
2. Meets someone (usually a male love interest) who shows them it isn't
3. On the run
4. Get caught
5. Escape and join revolution
6. Big, glorious battle where someone we like dies
The ending was stupid, and made no scene compared to the rest of the series!
Anna wrote: "Yes it was very heart renching but this book isn't really a happy book so i was expecting there not to be a happy ending."I agree with you. I feel the ending was very fitting due to the circumstances of what they went through.
Why did Prim have to die? WHY???
Right!? That was so sad!! The whole purpose of her going through the hunger games was to save Prim and ultimately she ends up dying anyway
Abbie wrote: "Right!? That was so sad!! The whole purpose of her going through the hunger games was to save Prim and ultimately she ends up dying anyway"EXACTLY! I'm not saying I cried when I read that, but my eyes did water. ALOT.
Jill wrote: "Why did Prim have to die? WHY???"Because they alway have to have that catch at the end of a book, every book has one, somewhere!
Jill wrote: "Abbie wrote: "Right!? That was so sad!! The whole purpose of her going through the hunger games was to save Prim and ultimately she ends up dying anyway"EXACTLY! I'm not saying I cried when I rea..."
Same here!!!
Ian wrote: "Jill wrote: "Why did Prim have to die? WHY???"Because they alway have to have that catch at the end of a book, every book has one, somewhere!"
I know but I don't like it! :)
I'm not smiling bc I like it.
She should have ended the book where she shoots the new president instead of the old one, and then followed up with another trillogy, in the darker style of this terrible ending
I thought the ending would be sooo much better. I was disappointed.
Yes, she went to the Games, to save Prim and she died at the end anyway, but don't you see that everything has changed? If Prim just died in the Games, everything would've been the same. No rebels, nothing. She had to die. I'm sad for her, but she had to.
Imi wrote: "Yes, she went to the Games, to save Prim and she died at the end anyway, but don't you see that everything has changed? If Prim just died in the Games, everything would've been the same. No rebels,..."No you're right. That makes sense. Just ironic, I guess.
I was actually hoping for gale to die since the first book. And in the end, since he is still alive. Thats my only reason for a crappy ending.
The writer simply ruined the good taste of a unique and capturing story in the end. Yes it was disappointing for me too. BIG TIME!
anti-climatic, boring, ho hum!!!! maybe the ending will be changed for the flick.
Ruben wrote: "I was actually hoping for gale to die since the first book. And in the end, since he is still alive. Thats my only reason for a crappy ending."why did you want gale to die?
Sad, but would be improvement over the ending. fade 2 black
that's so cool- the first two pages are just 3ppl talking:)
I hated it so much. The book ended in a rush and it seemed thrown together, like it was written in an hour or two. I hated it so much i do not want to read the book again!
I guess we never really considered Prim dying an option. She's too pure. I would've been alright if Katniss died-I actually thought she would. I skipped to the end to count pages and saw Rue's song. I figured Peeta or Gale or angel-Rue was singing it to Katniss on her deathbed.And then it didn't happen.
I hear Suzanne's editor actually called her after reading the manuscript and shouted, "Don't do it!"
But she didn't listen.
Well, I found the ending very disappointing... But in a way, I'm glad it ended... When I finished it (might I mind you, it was late one summer night), I felt relieved. I hope that other people felt the same way. :)
I could not wait until the end! When I got to the action I was soooo happy, but then I got to 30 pages of crap. Sure it might have been sweet but action is bestest.
I was hoping she would end up with Gale, it kind of felt like a cop out at the end.http://www.jamiecampbell.com.au
Christian wrote: "The ending lacked any sign of hope. It wasn't just about who would end up with whom, but the story finished with a traumatized Katniss, estranged friends and a sense that the cost of all the fight..."I know I hated the ending. Why did Katniss have to be so miserable? Everyone either died or went away... Except for Peeta and even he couldn't have a truly happy ending. Boo.
I loved Gale in the movie, but Peeta had my heart in the books. :)
i acually like it it was a good book and i will always be a hunger games fan
MockingJay was WAY under my expectations. There were so many random deaths of good characters that I actually became numb. And the last few pages...really? It was like Deathly Hallows on Zoloft. I couldn't even comprehend what I was reading. It was Like Suzanne Collins shitted out a storm cloud of agnst and mood and it left a skid over the entire ending. Catching Fire deserved a better follow up.
I was hoping she ended up with Gale too. What I decided really cinched my unease about the last book was that so much of the story was unclear as to what was really happening. How much of it was just Katniss and her perspective and how much of it was really what was happening. You never really know the real story - whether President Snow was playing her or not, whether her decisions were right or wrong.I'm sure that was the intention of the writer but I guess I'm not built that way - to enjoy only one perspective. I'm the kind of person that needs to know what really happened... the bigger picture, as it were.
The series was great - but it left me uneasy for that exact reason.
U thought it was a "real" ending. I liked it.
I throw the libray book in my burn pit, no joke xD
I really like the series. Huge fan. I think the ending is also good but it was abrupt. It was like suzanne was in a hurry to end it. Dont you guys think so?
I know rightI mean why did Prim have to die and Gale disappear? That was just messed up!
But I am kind of happy about Katniss and Peeta.
I felt that the author had written the other two books so well, and she just rushed to the end of this book. I think she could have added an extra 200 pages to the book easily.
I can't help but feel the editor behind her ear telling her the book shouldn't be over 100.000 words and that she had to hand it right away. Yes, the end was abrupt and unfair to most of its characters. Katniss made a lot of choices through the trilogy, but in the end, her life just happened. It was as if she had no other choice left.
I don't think it was written well, and by that I think the author could do so much better as she did with the original Hunger Games. If it was meant to be a tragedy, at least respect your supporting characters and give them the sendoff they deserve, not some quick boot to the bum and THAT's it, they're gone:( It did suck the way it rushed through and dragged on other places, and the end was terrible. How Katniss made her life and her relationship to her children (the boy, the girl???) sound so bleak and depressing despite no more Hunger Games, I don't know.
I HATED the ending of Mockingjay. It was as if Collins simply 'gave up' on writing and decided to kill each and every character the reader cared the least bit about - I mean really, Prim as well? And the circumstances of everyone's death, Prim's or Finnick's or anyone else's - were just JUNK. When I start killing people off in my book series, there's no way they're going to just 'go' like they did in Mockingjay. - thatonewriterofthatonebook.tumblr.com
I HATED IT...at first. but after reading the forums and writing down my rants/thoughts, i started accepting it and understanding suzanne collin's choices. it makes sense and i'm okay with katniss going crazy and settling with peeta while gale makes himself useful to the rebuilding of panem. although i hated that he went to district 2 (weapons production) because it felt wrong (i console myself in thinking that he had no other choice).nonetheless, mockingjay was by far my least favorite in the trilogy. beside it being rushed, i felt like characters were acting out of character for the service of the plot. i hated the epilogue because it was just an afterthought to appease all the shippers.
obviously this is just my own opinion and if others liked the end, then great for them. meanwhile, i'm internally screaming and just...ugh. i tweeted my anger, lol. (maybe that's a sign that the book was actually better than i thought. but i'm more angry at how it's written than by the effects of the rebellion, so...)
I wished the ending was happier. :(
The ending was terrible!!! So rushed and dumb. It just didn't tie up the series nicely.
Christian wrote: "The ending lacked any sign of hope. It wasn't just about who would end up with whom, but the story finished with a traumatized Katniss, estranged friends and a sense that the cost of all the fight..."I agree completely! though personally i think the ending felt depressive because katniss ended up with Peeta, who is in my opinion beneath her. throughout the series he was not good enough for her. so i felt as if she just "settled" for him, as if she gave up on her own chance for real happiness.
if she sounded happy in the epilog the ending whould have been more hopeful.
I actually didn't like this book at all. The ending was bad and I hate how Snow changed Peeta.
Jessica wrote: "Christian wrote: "The ending lacked any sign of hope. It wasn't just about who would end up with whom, but the story finished with a traumatized Katniss, estranged friends and a sense that the cos..."I try to avoid "shipper" topics when I can and when it's not necessary, considering the big picture of the trilogy, but I have to disagree with this comment. The ending was supposed to be depressing, yes, but I really don't think Katniss "settled" for Peeta and this is coming from someone who is a defender of Gale. In fact, I think it's more like the other way around because Peeta was too good for her - even Haymitch said so in the book (I forget if it was CF or MJ) and Katniss agreed.
I don't think Katniss will ever be truly happy regardless of who she ended up with because war changes people and that's okay. That was an important point that the books wanted to make. Her experiences in the games changed her as well (and this is where I can understand Collins' choice to have Katniss and Peeta be endgame). I think she only really truly loved Prim...or at least loved her more than she could love Peeta or Gale.
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