This Year's Model of Humanity

I really loved Mark Reads The Lord of the Rings, so I've been checking out his other reviews. After I read The Hunger Games series, I went to go check out his reviews for it.

I was surprised, at first, when he said that the writing of THG wasn't very good, but then I realized that it made sense that he felt that way - he loved the prose of LotR a lot, and that's almost a perfect inverse of the style that Collins uses. All the stuff that bothered me about Tolkien's writing was stuff that Mark loved. So, naturally, he would dislike the prose of THG in about the same measure that I dislike the prose of LotR. I love the story of LotR but, man, the writing bugs me. And that's pretty much exactly how Mark felt about THG. Mark and I have near-opposite preferences in writing style.

I spent so much of my time while reading LotR pretty much begging Tolkien to get to the point already. And that's what Collins does in her writing - she gets to the point. If something isn't the point, she skips over it or summarizes it. This is pretty much bliss for me as a reader because, if those parts are written into a book, I skip them anyway. The way that Collins wrote THG, I wasn't skipping anything.

What about y'all - what are your preferences in writing styles? Got a favorite writer?

So, my local public library had over a thousand holds on THG. Luckily, I work at my school and remembered that we had copies of the whole series (I don't know why; it could be a teacher requested them for a class) and was able to check them out with no waiting.

( So, I've finished The Hunger Games and I'm about half-way through Catching Fire )