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Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games)
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制造商: Scholastic Press
作者: Suzanne Collins
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EAN: 9780439023511
ISBN: 0439023513
Label: Scholastic Press
Manufacturer: Scholastic Press
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Release Date: 2010-08-24
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Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games) 介绍
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Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she’s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what’s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss’s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins’s groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.
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Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games) 用户反馈:
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用户总结: A HUGE Disappointment
用户评语: Like other reviewers, I could not wait for this book to come out. I am not a particular fan of science fiction but "The Hunger Games" and "Catching Fire" were possibly two of the best books I have read in a long time. I felt the writer fully pulled me into the world of Panem, and I genuinely cared about all the characters. I started reading "Mockingjay" the moment it came in the mail (I pre-ordered it), and was fully engrossed immediately. Then I suddenly began to realize that the author did not really seem to know how to write this book, and it started to feel incredibly disjointed. Where in the previous books I felt as if I knew the characters and really liked many of them despite (and maybe because of) their flaws, in this book I began to dislike everyone, including Katniss. It seems as if the author became confused between the statement she wanted to make ("War is wrong no matter what"), and good storytelling. Peeta, Gale, Katniss, Haymitch etc. took on a paper doll quality and I many times became confused as to what was going on. The book dragged on and then ended in a rush with no insight into why the characters behaved the way they did. I was particularly disappointed in the portrayal of Peeta. Where he was a large part of the previous books, he is but a brief part of this book; like he was an actor that asked for too much money so she wrote him out of the plot!
All in all, I felt betrayed by Suzanne Collins. I wish she would have stayed true to the characters, and given us a book to treasure, a trilogy to read over and over. Instead, I just want to write my own end to the story.
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用户总结: The Good Is Gone
用户评语: Let me begin by saying I loved the first two books! They were a captivating struggle of good vs. evil and freedom vs. manipulation. But, this last book has lost all the goodness and freedom, leaving only a depressing, uninspiring conclusion to what could have been a great series.
If Suzanne Collins' purpose in writing this book was to beat-up young readers with the "evils of war" theme, she has certainly accomplished her goal. But, unlike other reviewers, I think this view of life/war is not only unrealistic, but it also makes for boring, almost propagandist, literature. In any human struggle there are those who hold on to goodness, who sacrifice themselves for something greater, and who love against all odds. These are the redeeming qualities of mankind. These are the elements that were so riveting in the first two books, and they are completely lost in Mockingjay.
Prepare to be disappointed.
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用户总结: The Fire Went Out
用户评语: There was an addiction to this series that few books can spark. After tearing through the first 2 books time and time again, I was ready for the final book to keep me hooked with that same intensity, character, and readability. While the first two books could mix the weight of despair with the thrill of finding out what happens next, I found myself slogging through Mockingjay and not enjoying it even a tiny bit. There was a rush in the previous books' bleakness, but the final book made me apathetic about characters that had meant a lot to me before I started this book. After spending this long journey with them, I went from liking the characters to just waiting for them to hurry up and die.
With this final book, the characters act so strangely that I can't even stay interested. Why is this happening to Peeta? Why is that character showing up? Why are the wrong characters dying? I understand war is horrible and unpredictable, but the final showdown doesn't feel believable and after 2 books of feeling bad for the characters, I was ready for them to have some joy. Instead, I'm given awkward pacing, character detachment, and a predictable ending. The Mockingjay finally made me stop and wonder why I'm so absorbed in a series that is all about having children fight to the death.
There are a small handful of decent ideas in it, but not enough to save the book. I don't know if there is a perfect way to end this trilogy, but I do know that this tragic story can't compete with its predecessors and in many ways has jumped the shark. I'd like to see "mulligan" called and see the last book written again. The author has so much talent but I just didn't feel it here.
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用户总结: War is terrible as is this book
用户评语: I loved the Hunger Games, liked Catching Fire and was truly disappointed in Mockingjay.
**Spoilers ahead**
First off, I'm aware that many readers love this book. But for me, it fell flat.
War is horrible. And with this book I had the impression it was written with the purpose in mind to get that point across. Random deaths, hopelessness, broken people, plans that end in nothing but despair, sickness, no heroes only tears. I already knew that about war. If I want real life I watch the news.
I started this series because I was intrigued by Katniss, by her courage, how she stood up for herself and the people she loved. She was gritty, almost an anti-hero but definitely strong.
In this book she stumbles from scene to scene, always pushed by someone, just a pawn. I lost count how many times she woke up in the hospital while the story unfolded around her but always without her. Too many scenes end with her getting a shot in the arm that makes her black out. Too many times is she crying huddled in a corner. I'm not saying that she has no reason to be sad, but that is NOT the Katniss from the first two books. This is fiction and I prefer people to ACT in my fiction, not be acted upon or do nothing for many, many pages.
The love triangle between her, Gale and Peeta, is all but gone from the book, just an afterthought. There's little dialogue between the characters. Peeta returns and now hates Katniss because he was tortured and brainwashed by the capitol. And Katniss gives up on him for most of the novel. It makes me strongly dislike her for it. Gale is always somewhere else and their friendship fizzles out. Emotionally, for me as the reader, the resolution of how love and friendship was handled between those three was extremely unsatisfying.
Too much time spent on describing horror and violence, not enough on dialogue and emotions between the main characters. I simply don't care how a bomb explodes and what it does to a body, over and over again. Too many coincidences, too many developments wrapped up in a few sentences--always without Katniss present.
And why kill Prim in the end? Because war is violent and pointless? Yes, I got that, thanks. Prim was the reason Katniss entered the Hunger Games so killing her off in the last book is just cruel--like war, I know.
There was no hope in this book, no hero I could root for, only broken people. It was depressing to read--like war is depressing. I don't appreciate being lectured to, though.
The writing itself is gorgeous. And in the end, Katniss continues living, despite all the horrors in her life. That's a survivor all right, sure. But the glimpses of hope and love in the last chapter/epilogue was way, way too little and much too late.
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用户总结: Just think of Peeta's "hijacking" as a metaphor for what nihilistic anti-war propaganda does to 'Mockingjay'...
用户评语: First, I want to establish that I adored the first two books--I've read them multiple times and recommended them constantly at the bookstore where I work; I read them aloud to my husband, gave them to friends and relatives, and I've looked forward to Mockingjay's release for MONTHS! Once I got the book I didn't read it for several days--a little silly, but I realized I didn't want the story to end.
I should have kept to that instinct, because I have finished the book and now I just feel sick. I don't want to own it and I don't think I'll ever re-read it.
It wasn't even well-written! I don't say this off the cuff--it wouldn't be fair to criticize the book this way simply because I didn't like the ending--but it's true, and here's why:
**********SPOILER ALERT*********SPOILER ALERT***********SPOILER ALERT***********
It was predictable and contrived. Collins created lots of expendable characters (Hi there, Team 451!) and then spent most of the book killing them off. It reminded me of the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie, where characters whose names you don't know are being killed left and right so you know this is SERIOUS without having to lose a major character--it's a cheap trick, and I expected better of Collins. And cheating like this doesn't actually work; it was so unlikely that she was going to kill off Katniss, Gale or Peeta in the middle of the book that it didn't really create the suspense she was going for. Prim's death (and Finnick's) could have been used much more thoughtfully; instead we had a blitzkrieg of constant attrition to remind us that THIS IS WAR. It wasn't evocative--it just made me feel numb.
This endless dying is interspersed with even-more-endless strategy and technical details. I repeatedly found myself skimming, which never happened with the previous two books. But these passages were so boring(!), and I kept hoping to find that Katniss had figured out a purpose or an orientation or had reached out to Peeta or even just accurately assessed something--but no luck.
Which brings me to character development, relationships, and philosophical reflections on values and motivations. They were vital in the previous two books, but they are nearly nonexistent here, and the book is fatally flawed because of it. Peeta is barely present, and if you discount the time that Katniss spends crying in corners, injured and in the hospital, taking morphling, or being manipulated or controlled by others and wandering around confused, she isn't really present either. And Gale is unfairly characterized in order to resolve the love triangle--it's baffling, because Katniss of all people isn't in a moral position to judge Gale, and I thought that was part of the point.
Ultimately, the story is hijacked--hey, that's a good metaphor!--by anti-war propaganda and a damn-near nihilistic outlook. I understand that Collins wanted to communicate that war and violence aren't glamorous. I think she's right. But (ironically) she's done real violence to her characters and the merit in the world she created in order to bludgeon us with that value.
In a way, you could call this book "more realistic". And yet--I think a book that accurately reflects the gritty horrors of war would show how people use dark humor as a coping mechanism. This book had none of the wry humor of the previous two.
And for pity's sake, what was Collins trying to achieve with the ending? I agree with those who say that Katniss agreed to a renewed Hunger Games featuring the children of Capitol citizens in order to get the opportunity to stop Coin--it's the only thing that makes sense, given what Collins is clearly trying to convey, and it fits best with the character of Katniss. But it's not made explicit in the text. Leaving this up to conjecture was a major error on Collins' part, or very bad editing. It's not wise to be subtle in the philosophical part of the book that is meant to put the heavy-handed part into some kind of context.
And the last four pages, where we finally learn: Peeta or Gale? An afterthought. I think what is worst is that by making this choice, Collins makes the war the only important part, the only real part of Katniss's life--all the rest calls for is a brief summary. Almost all injury, very little road to recovery (those "real or not real" conversations were one of the few highlights of the book). It's baffling to me that this tacked-on ending is still fairy-tale-esque (that is, Katniss did settle down with her True Love and have children). But why bother giving her this semblance of a fairy-tale ending when it's so clear that she's DEAD INSIDE? It could have been insightfully ironic--though that's a little sick--but it's not. It's just empty. Apparently, once you've been in a war, nothing--not even consummation of true love or the birth of your children--can bring you joy ever again.
I think the vital counterpart to accurately portraying the horror and corruption of war is the possibility of redemption, of pursuing redemption. And Collins set this up but didn't follow through. Both personally and politically, through all of 'Mockingjay' Katniss is reduced to this calculating, empty creature. Her reflections on putting those she loves before herself (as she does with Prim in the first book, and Peeta in the second)--her major arc as a dynamic character? Utterly gone here. She makes, what, TWO efforts to reach out to Peeta? Three? She realizes she should be doing better but makes barely any effort to do so. I suppose it could be argued that the war left her no time--though her repeated willingness to kill Peeta to save her own skin blights that rather--but afterwards? There's no mention of her interest in making it up to him. Even when she later has leisure as a wife and parent, post-war, to reflect on these things, she doesn't. Politically, too, she never finds a motivation--such as "a world where Peeta's child can be safe"--to sustain her. Her own survival (as Gale bitterly notes) seems to be her top priority--though hell, she's not even sure she wants that; she seems a lot more concerned that her death be a quick one. Great. Katniss is Everyman--a broken, broken Everyman. For pity's sake, I'm tired of the GROWNUP literature that shows us the depth to which the human spirit can sink--I don't need it here! The main perk of young adult literature is that you can have both good writing AND a hero who can inspire you by example to rise above and triumph. To my mind, the purpose of good YA lit is to explore dark topics in a meaningful, well-written way that doesn't leave you in a bog of existential misery. If this is the brave new world into which young adult literature is heading, let me say now that I want no part of it. I can re-read '1984' and 'The Road'--or pick up 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'--anytime I want. In fact, the former are fine examples of how a book can be serious, gritty, and disturbing, and still satisfying. But if you're going to make someone sit through this near-nihilism, essentially conveying that neither individuals or humanity as a whole can never really change, they deserve capital-L Literature for their trouble.
I just wish I could go back and warn myself not to read this. I've never been interested in fanfiction but I think I'm almost willing to look some up, if only to get the taste of this out of my mouth.
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