tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post111932885009536954..comments2023-12-22T09:04:09.898-08:00Comments on Six Boxes of Books: What do you suppose Katniss and Abraham Lincoln would talk about? Don't you love wondering?Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11690852339559706714noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post-46237678510132227442009-04-24T10:04:00.000-07:002009-04-24T10:04:00.000-07:00Wendy, it makes me really happy that you were move...Wendy, it makes me really happy that you were moved to buy Impossible. And I was up most of the night reading The Hunger Games, too. We'll see what happens next week!<br /><br />Nancy WerlinNancy Werlinhttp://www.nancywerlin.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post-21381530623379765692009-04-23T20:49:00.000-07:002009-04-23T20:49:00.000-07:00You like Octavian Nothing better than anyone I kno...You like Octavian Nothing better than anyone I know, which sort of surprises me. I think you're probably right about which is more likely to be read in a hundred years (though I'm not at all convinced that that's true about Octavian Nothing, either), and that's why--in my mind, anyway--Octavian Nothing received a Printz Honor, and The Hunger Games picked up nada at ALA. But this is (ahem) a Battle Royale, not an awards ceremony... I just don't know what Lois Lowry is going to think. She generally goes for simpler prose, herself (although I think we all know the prose in The Hunger Games isn't exactly perfection), but I can see how, having written a dystopian book, she might have strong feelings about them and find The Hunger Games lacking. Or she could say "The Hunger Games is twenty times more exciting than my book!" and leave it at that. Or she could say "Anastasia would read and enjoy Octavian Nothing, but she would tell Sonya, Daphne, Meredith, AND Steve Harvey to read The Hunger Games. Katherine would have already finished it, and Sam would be swiping it from under her pillow." (Obviously, it goes without saying that Myron would vote for Octavian Nothing.)Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11690852339559706714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post-76678927154334990672009-04-23T20:28:00.000-07:002009-04-23T20:28:00.000-07:00I will be sad if The Hunger Games blows Octavian N...I will be sad if <I>The Hunger Games</I> blows <I>Octavian Nothing</I> out of the water. The first is good, but the second is, in my eyes anyway, classic. Nobody's going to be reading <I>The Hunger Games</I> a hundred years from now.Melody Marie Murrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14751943914009310127noreply@blogger.com