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The Calling (Endgame, #1)
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Most people in the comments/reviews has even bothered to look into this book past a few sentences, and they will be proven wrong. They're mostly teenagers who don't even realize the dystopian genre was around long before Suzanne Collins and "The Hunger Games" - many (better) authors paved the way before her...Greats like Koushun Takami (Battle Royale), Stephen King (Running Man)... There have been many before and will be many after - there are over 100 dystopian fiction novels set to debut in the next year or so, and holding each of these books to the judgment of "ripping off the Hunger Games" is ridiculous, when The Hunger Games itself has been called nothing but a cheap imitation. Did that stop me from loving it? No. Personally, I am really into this kind of story, I have read so much dystopian fiction I feel like it's coming out my ears, and yet I somehow crave more. So while nerdy teenagers whine and "review" something they know nothing about and can't be bothered to understand the origins of - you know that the good will far outweigh the bad and silence the cry of the poor, misunderstood tween generation with their cat .gifs.
If you take one thing from this review - let it be that any serious "review" should not be explained and justified in .gifs.
If you take one thing from this review - let it be that any serious "review" should not be explained and justified in .gifs.
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Jul 07, 2014 10:25PM
By far my favorite review!!!
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You are so right! I cannot wait to read it and begin to solve the puzzle myself. And I think people must read it and I am a big fan of James Frey too! He is a good writer, give him a chance and forget the past.
I am reading it. It is about 12 young people between 13 and 20 all over the world. They are trained to save their family tree. Only one family bloodline will survive. So everybody in the world will die, but one part of the world will not. But I cannot give you full review because I am in the middle.
I was confused how this was a 5 star review when it didn't mention anything about the actual book yet.
High five to Jennifer. Glad someone paid attention.
I don't see anything about the book in this review. Might as well have included a .gif.
greats of dystopian fiction like Stephen king? what about the following books -
"The Handmaid's Tale" Atwood which came out in the early 80's and dealt with women's reproductive autonomy
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"Never Let You Go" - which came out in the 90's which dealt with cloning and class war along with what exactly makes a person human.
there's "the giver," "do androids dream of electric sheep," "a clockwork orange," "fer 454," "animal farm" "a brave new world" "neuromancer" "oryx & crake" and of course "battle royale" which is where you can see where the hunger games got their ideas. there's a ya novel called house of scorpion...
I can go on and on bc it's my fav genre to read. dystopian fic is becoming popular now though bc it's a perfect time for it. it's not the hunger games or the dumb divergent series doing well - it's the fact that in most of our countries, we are watching society fall apart in front of us. government is helpless and useless, we work our asses off for nothing, it's the 1% vs 99%. we are watching innocent people killed by police and nothing is done about it. all the while college tuition is too costly for almost all of us - we will pay those loans off until we are dead, there's no way we can buy homes which is where, prior, Americans kept the majority of their income. with the collapse in 08 we've seen how unstable everything is. and our school systems too are a joke. the food we eat is awful for us, and the climate we live in - we are killing our planet.
so is it any wonder that people are pumping out these kind of novels? they are catching on to our general unease. and maybe preparing us for what is to come.
that's my two cents, without sounding too crazy.
the fact that fray got into the game doesn't suprise me, the guy is a slime ball. I should mention he "grew up" in my home town.
This review is so true, I have just started reading the book (like 2 pages in) and I already can't wait to continue. If you don't like something don't read it, don't "review" something you have t bothered to read.
This review is so true, I have just started reading the book (like 2 pages in) and I already can't wait to continue. If you don't like something don't read it, don't "review" something you have t bothered to read.
I LOVED this book. The only thing this book and The Hunger Games have in common is thag children kill each other, but hey, that happened in Lord of the Flies too (perhaps that is also a HG ripoff lol). This book had sci fy, drama, dystopia, everything I love. I just finished today and I am itching for the 2nd book. I, however, am not even going to TRY to solve the puzzle (I know myself well enough to know I won't figure it out, so why try? Lol)
loved your review, very accurate
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who felt that a lot of people rather assume based on the summary and didn't bother to read it for themselves
Thank you very much for your great review. Each words and sentence are my thoughts exactly. Teens/Young adult nowadays are never happy, always so hard to please. And when all we ask is a good and honest review, not even a long one mind you, all the can come up with are all those stupid and annoying gifs... So you see now, when I'm looking for something to read, I still come here and read reviews but then I don't accord too much importance to negative reviews. Especially if it is those gif ones. Anyhow I just bought this book and Gone this morning, after reading Hunger Games, Divergent and Uglies (I loved that one too, despite the negative or insulting reviews)
Atleast Stephen King knows how to write a book. Please teach yourself to read a book, before giving 5 stars to garbage like this. Thank you, and have a nice day!
What insults towards readers character has common with review? Nothing, right?
