The Blue Board

I only thought that there were three. Actually it might have only been two when I read them. It's been over a decade since I read the one's that they had or at least close to it. It has been at least a decade I'm sure. I read them while I was locked up and can barely remember anything about them at this point. I've always liked science fiction/fantasy books though. Not so much Star Wars type stuff but the wizard and dragon type books.

"The outsiders" by s.e. Hinton was a great movie. Patrick Swayze, tom cruise & matt dillon were all in it.

Thanks for the heads up. I ordered the Odd Thomas books on Amazon today and need about three or four more. Someone told me about the Farseer books but it seems like you know your stuff. I'll have to order that one as well.

The Godfather disagrees

It wasn't even close Gonig.

Where to start. First of all the portrayals of the killings were weak at best. With all of the graphic violence in the book there was no shade of it in the movie. They completely got how Katniss got the Mockingjay pin incorrect, which isn't exactly a small part of that series. She got the thing in the Hob in the movie but was given it to her by the mayor's daughter Maggie in the book, who happened to get it from her aunt who was best friends with Katniss' mother when the aunt was selected to the Hunger Games. Actually the same year that Haymitch won the thing.

Peeta giving her the bread was shown like it was a recent event in the movie but it was stated over and over in the books that she was a younger kid when that happened, much younger. When Katniss gets the medicine for Peeta in the cave to save him it showed nothing about her having to drug him with a gift from the parachute.

Rue didn't give Kat the leaves while she was knocked out like it showed in the movie. Kat had already gone through her hallucinations before Rue ever helped her. Cato was already at the Cornucopia when the mutts showed up which is ass backwards. I mean I could keep going on just little simple stuff that they changed for no damn reason.

I have two thoughts on this issue:

1) I haven't seen or read The Hunger Games, but I've read that the violence of the movie was toned down in order to cater to a larger female audience that comes with having a female lead character.

2) In almost all instances of books, movies, music, and other entertainment, I almost always like the first version of anything better than any subsequent versions that I encounter. For instance, I like Friday Night Lights book, which I read first, way better than the movie; I like the Aerosmith version of Come Together, which I knew first, better than The Beatles version. I wonder if this might be the case for other people as well.

both of those were great movies - i agree with you