Saturday, January 19, 2013

Mockingjay

Here goes.  Book #5
Mockingjay
by Suzanne Collins

Read it.  Read it now.  Read it for sure if you were prone to watching war movies in your younger days.

Because that's what this is--a war movie.  You'd have expected no less from the author of The Hunger Games and Catching Fire.

Damn!  I wish I'd written it.

A lot of people won't like the ending, but you know?  Since when do you ever like the end of a war movie?  People die.  Good people die; bad people die; and a whole lot of people who never really do anything all that good or all that bad.

And that, my dear friends, is the point.  Any good war movie is really an anti-war movie.

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