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chopper ( member #5772) posted at 7:12 AM on Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
I don't think Gale was emotionally unavailable, to me Katniss was the emotionally unavailable. At the very beginning Gale asks her to runaway with him and pretty much to start a family and she said it was impossible and that she'll never have kids.
So I'm still Team Gale, (I managed to stay firm in my decision by not reading Mokingjay 
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chopper ( member #5772) posted at 7:12 AM on Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
sorry double post... 
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WH passed away on 3/21/2013(52) (44 at DD)
2 Kids S(27) D(24) (14 and 11 at DD)
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved."–George MacDonald
"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself." –
ladyvorkosigan ( member #8283) posted at 12:05 PM on Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
Also girls of America, while it's cool your interest in archery has increased by like 3000%, you are entirely fucking up my plans for baby_v's full ride archery scholarship. Golf is too expensive and fencing isn't a solo event. Please have stopped doing this by say 2022.
It nagged him, in particular, that none of the girls he’d known so far had given him a sense of unalloyed triumph.
apeppersmith ( member #35050) posted at 7:55 PM on Friday, March 30th, 2012
Another YA series that is great if you liked the Hunger Games is the Scott Westerfield Uglies series. Very good, strong female lead, dystopia sort of deal. I read it a couple of years ago to preapprove for my niece and was quite impressed. His new Leviathan series is a great alternate history sort of thing.
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ladyvorkosigan ( member #8283) posted at 9:23 PM on Friday, March 30th, 2012
http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/hunger-games-themed-wedding
It nagged him, in particular, that none of the girls he’d known so far had given him a sense of unalloyed triumph.
willowiris ( member #5372) posted at 10:31 PM on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
So I'm still Team Gale, (I managed to stay firm in my decision by not reading Mokingjay
you've gotta read mockingjay! How could you not!? 
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leapyearbaby ( member #24902) posted at 8:54 AM on Thursday, April 5th, 2012
I agree that the books had more detail than the movies, but for me, it's just a different art form. If they had included all the detail it would have been a 12 hr made for TV movie! And it is probably best to read the book prior to seeing the movie.
I do agree that the bread scene was not handled properly in the movie...unless one had read the books it wasn't really clear. All in all I did really like the movie. The emotions of kids killing kids was more horrific to me than any of the killing scenes.
Amusingly, I had never had an interest in reading them....I got the idea that it was another Twilight and I am just so over vampires. But while visiting my grandkids, the 11 y/o GD got me to read it and 6 days later I had read all three. Great reads, all of them....
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JessicaFL127 ( member #26864) posted at 4:02 AM on Friday, April 6th, 2012
Loved Hunger Games. Try Divergent next; it is in a similar vein and the second book in its trilogy comes out May 1st. I liked it too.
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