One book down

Finished re-reading The Hunger Games this afternoon. Now I just have to finish Catching Fire before Mockingjay gets here (apparently, on the 26th according to Amazon). That shouldn't be difficult.

That's the issue. I could probably finish that book by tomorrow afternoon if I wanted to. And that would leave me with those four John Green novels. Tempting. Do I really want to start reading them before Mockingjay gets here? What if it gets here early and I'm in the middle of reading another book? It may seem ridiculous, but I'm honestly perplexed by this situation. I can't explain just how excited I actually am that Mockingjay is almost here.

I've spent a significant amount of time debating the pros and cons of Battle Royale and The Hunger Games, trying to determine which I prefer. Because even though they're so different, you can't ignore the similarities between them. I love Battle Royale. It left such an impression on me that I had nightmares about it after I read it. (Didn't love that part very much.) I realize now that I can't really choose one over the other until I read Mockingjay. And what's the point anyway? They ARE different. There's no reason to choose one over the other. It's so easy to compare them, but why bother when the similarities end with kids being forced to kill eachother in order to ensure their own survival?

(I'd still like to do a movie/book comparison of Battle Royale once I have the attention span to devote enough time to it. I already know it would be lengthy, since I started one several months ago before realizing I would have at least twenty pages of notes from the first few chapters alone.)

And because I'm all over the place, let me point out that the comparisons between The Hunger Games and Twilight confuse me to no end. Look, I haven't read any of those Twilight books. I watched the first movie and I just didn't get the appeal of it at all. As I understand it, that series is about vampires and werewolves. How does that have anything to do with The Hunger Games? It doesn't. Just because there's a love triangle in both series, people seem to feel this need for comparison between them.

Let's think about this. Casablanca. Gilda. The Roaring Twenties. Etc. They all had love triangles. Is anyone comparing Twilight to Casablanca? No. And do you know why? Because it's ridiculous. So I really wish I didn't see "Team Edward/Team Jacob" every time I read something about who Katniss should end up with at the end of Mockingjay.