HG - RESULTS of Round 1

Britt - You would get through the Hunger Games really fast. I used to devour books at breakneck speed through middle school and high school. Once I got to college I started reading some "slower" books and my reading time came in smaller chunks. HG was the first book in a few years that I picked up and just whizzed through. It actually felt really great - like downing a glass of water when you're thirsty.

Alls I'm saying is... if you wanted, you could finish it by tomorrow.

Noooo. I don't want to even read them at all because of the hype. lol. I refuse to read 50 Shades for the same reason. I just can't want to! I feel like I have to like the books because everyone else does, and whats wrong with me if I don't like them?

This happened with Twilight. Twilight is stupid, but I love them. Had there been no hype, I'd probably hate it. lol

My daughter got me to read the first one & I zipped through all 3 in one week. It was thoughtful & entertaining but no Dune saga.

Well, 50 shades looks dumb. You can get porn anywhere on the internet. Besides, it started out as Twilight fanfic, so if you've already read that...

I figure... you can't let everyone else's dumb hype dictate what you're going to like. You just have to like what you like, and who cares if 50 million other people like it too?

Or maybe you're saying that other people's impressions influence your impressions. That happens too. I mean, I would have liked Harry Potter regardless, but would it have meant so much to me if there wasn't a huge culture of people that liked it? Probably not.

Anyway, I'm hijacking this thread.

Larry, I tried to pick up the first book of Dune but I fell asleep halfway through the first sentence. Then the bookstore kicked me out for squatting. Would it be worth another try? I know everyone looooves it.

Plots with plots
becoming human
exotic cultures based 70% on earth, bur developed forward
sex as control
Spice central to needs of the culture

Yes. But push through the first chapter

Yeah it does look dumb, haha. I've heard a lot about it from a cousin and it sounds like the guy is a complete control freak. I dated one of those, no thanks!

Yes, I mean more of the other peoples impressions usually end up swaying my own. I often stick to things like Jennifer Weiner, Emily something or other, Nora Roberts (her trilogies in Ireland and the spiritual ghost stuff are my favorite). Pretty much I want a dumb love story, I don't want to think. I think all day lol

Lol, it really looks dumb..

what does that talk about, LArry?

I was describing elements of Dune by Frank Herbert. It's the first of a series set in the far future. A mind-enhancing spice, melange, is absolutely required by society, akin to today's oil: required for navigation (it allows certain humans to transport huge ships through the galaxy by 'folding space') and to prolong life and gifts some people with the power of prescience. It occurs only on the dessert planet Dune.
"Who controls the spice controls the empire."
PS: he wrote the book BEFORE Opec flexed it's cartel muscles.