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Sep. 1st, 2010 08:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
algHi, folks. Two things:
1.) Um. I finished Feed by Mira Grant
, and. What was that? When I finally put it down, I felt like I'd been hit by a truck that came back and ran me over again two or three times. Emotionally wrung out, mentally exhausted, and in. love. What a great book. I am jealous of the person who got to acquire and edit it, for sure. Two thumbs up, and if I could borrow someone else's thumbs, I'd turn those up, too. Everything that Suzanne Collins got wrong in her Hunger Games trilogy, this book gets right. (Although... this is emphatically not YA. On the other hand, I'd argue that perhaps Mockingjay isn't quite YA either. So. YMMV.)
Brief summary: In the future, two viruses interact and turn people into zombies. Horrifyingly, the virus is in everyone, so once you die, you become a zombie -- do not pass Go, do not collect $200, go straight to getting a bullet in the brain. Twenty-five years later, this is pretty commonplace for people, but everyone responds to the reality of it differently. The story is told from the point of view of Georgia, nicknamed George (after Romero, duh), who is a news blogger who's been invited, along with her co-bloggers (her brother, who is an action-adventure blogger, and her friend Buffy, who writes fiction and poetry about the news), to hit the campaign trail with a guy who's running for President. Plus there's a (okay, pretty transparent) mystery.
I found some of the book predictable -- but I dissect stories for a living, so it's the rare book that's going to catch me completely off guard about everything. This book did it once or twice, though, so that's pretty amazing. I loved the constant pressure of figuring out what's true vs. what's news vs. what can be both, and the way everyone copes differently with a zombie apocalypse.
Mira Grant is an open pseudonym for Seanan McGuire
, although I don't think it bears too much resemblance to her other books. (Which is to say that FWIW I don't like the October Daye books, but I loved this.)
and...
2.) Regarding the unholy alliance of Facebook, LiveJournal, and Twitter... I deleted my Facebook account months ago, so you'll never have your comments (or see my entries) reproduced there. I'd appreciate it if you did not share your comments to my entries on Facebook. For anyone who is made nervous or irritated by this, here are my invite codes to Dreamwidth. Feel free to take and use; I can always get more. As they're taken, I'll strike them from this list.
1.) Um. I finished Feed by Mira Grant
, and. What was that? When I finally put it down, I felt like I'd been hit by a truck that came back and ran me over again two or three times. Emotionally wrung out, mentally exhausted, and in. love. What a great book. I am jealous of the person who got to acquire and edit it, for sure. Two thumbs up, and if I could borrow someone else's thumbs, I'd turn those up, too. Everything that Suzanne Collins got wrong in her Hunger Games trilogy, this book gets right. (Although... this is emphatically not YA. On the other hand, I'd argue that perhaps Mockingjay isn't quite YA either. So. YMMV.)Brief summary: In the future, two viruses interact and turn people into zombies. Horrifyingly, the virus is in everyone, so once you die, you become a zombie -- do not pass Go, do not collect $200, go straight to getting a bullet in the brain. Twenty-five years later, this is pretty commonplace for people, but everyone responds to the reality of it differently. The story is told from the point of view of Georgia, nicknamed George (after Romero, duh), who is a news blogger who's been invited, along with her co-bloggers (her brother, who is an action-adventure blogger, and her friend Buffy, who writes fiction and poetry about the news), to hit the campaign trail with a guy who's running for President. Plus there's a (okay, pretty transparent) mystery.
I found some of the book predictable -- but I dissect stories for a living, so it's the rare book that's going to catch me completely off guard about everything. This book did it once or twice, though, so that's pretty amazing. I loved the constant pressure of figuring out what's true vs. what's news vs. what can be both, and the way everyone copes differently with a zombie apocalypse.
Mira Grant is an open pseudonym for Seanan McGuire
, although I don't think it bears too much resemblance to her other books. (Which is to say that FWIW I don't like the October Daye books, but I loved this.)and...
2.) Regarding the unholy alliance of Facebook, LiveJournal, and Twitter... I deleted my Facebook account months ago, so you'll never have your comments (or see my entries) reproduced there. I'd appreciate it if you did not share your comments to my entries on Facebook. For anyone who is made nervous or irritated by this, here are my invite codes to Dreamwidth. Feel free to take and use; I can always get more. As they're taken, I'll strike them from this list.
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