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kat180 · 02-29-2012, 12:17 PM

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I'm not their target audience, but I really liked the book series.

Siri types my posts for me.

I'm certainly not their target audience either. The books were initially intended for teenagers and were initially marketed as YA, but they're so well written that adults got into them too. I so intend to see this movie, even if I have to go alone.

I actually got interested in the books because of the movie trailers. A friend had recommended the books to me, I thought, "YA? No thanks." When I saw the trailer I thought it looked awesome. Read the books and thought they were just okay. I felt Collins had a great idea but lacked the writing skill to pull it off, but now I'm thinking maybe it's just the limitations of YA.

I'm still looking forward to the movies, though. I think this will be the rare case where the movie is better than the book.

I disagree with that. A lot of YA is better written than adult books. You just have to know where to look.

Books like Twilight give YA a bad name - sure there's a lot of paranormal sappy teenage romances (just like there's a lot of sappy 30-year old chick-lit in the adult section) but that isn't the extent of YA.

For my part, The Hunger Games is a good story - but not deserving of all the hype surrounding it. There are better dystopian YA out there.

redcelticcurls · 02-29-2012, 12:31 PM

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I'm certainly not their target audience either. The books were initially intended for teenagers and were initially marketed as YA, but they're so well written that adults got into them too. I so intend to see this movie, even if I have to go alone.

I actually got interested in the books because of the movie trailers. A friend had recommended the books to me, I thought, "YA? No thanks." When I saw the trailer I thought it looked awesome. Read the books and thought they were just okay. I felt Collins had a great idea but lacked the writing skill to pull it off, but now I'm thinking maybe it's just the limitations of YA.

I'm still looking forward to the movies, though. I think this will be the rare case where the movie is better than the book.

We'll have to agree to disagree about the writing. A number of novels, both YA and adult, are crap, but I felt these books were some of the best ever written in any genre.

+1.

Siri types my posts for me.

wild~hair · 02-29-2012, 12:47 PM

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Shhhhhhhhh, don't tell my mom. I went to her accountant the past few years because mine were always pretty complicated because I had so many 1099's and deductions.

This year, all I had was unemployment and a retail job.

I just did my taxes online. It took all of 10 minutes.

She told me when I told her I was going to do that that she wasn't going to bail me out of jail when I get arrested.

Most people can use the software to do their own. It really isn't that hard [as you now know].

And if anyone's concerned about an audit, through TurboTax they can pay a little more for audit protection, which means a CPA reviews it before you submit. Which is about as close as you can get to an accountant without actually hiring one to do the whole thing.

I do my own through TurboTax every year, and I have pretty complicated taxes [I have my own business]. The most time-consuming part is organizing my receipts and account info for deductions. It's not hard to do at all, it's actually kind of boring, it just takes time. And I would need to do that part myself before going to an accountant anyway.

legends · 02-29-2012, 01:06 PM

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I'm certainly not their target audience either. The books were initially intended for teenagers and were initially marketed as YA, but they're so well written that adults got into them too. I so intend to see this movie, even if I have to go alone.

I actually got interested in the books because of the movie trailers. A friend had recommended the books to me, I thought, "YA? No thanks." When I saw the trailer I thought it looked awesome. Read the books and thought they were just okay. I felt Collins had a great idea but lacked the writing skill to pull it off, but now I'm thinking maybe it's just the limitations of YA.

I'm still looking forward to the movies, though. I think this will be the rare case where the movie is better than the book.

I disagree with that. A lot of YA is better written than adult books. You just have to know where to look.

Books like Twilight give YA a bad name - sure there's a lot of paranormal sappy teenage romances (just like there's a lot of sappy 30-year old chick-lit in the adult section) but that isn't the extent of YA.

For my part, The Hunger Games is a good story - but not deserving of all the hype surrounding it. There are better dystopian YA out there.

I'm really just assuming on the YA part. Other than the first paragraph of Twilight I haven't read any. I wasn't saying that YA itself is bad, but a big part of my frustrations with the books was that I felt at many points that things could have been taken further, and I thought maybe the lack of depth was because of the age of the intended audience.

kat180 · 02-29-2012, 01:34 PM

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I actually got interested in the books because of the movie trailers. A friend had recommended the books to me, I thought, "YA? No thanks." When I saw the trailer I thought it looked awesome. Read the books and thought they were just okay. I felt Collins had a great idea but lacked the writing skill to pull it off, but now I'm thinking maybe it's just the limitations of YA.

I'm still looking forward to the movies, though. I think this will be the rare case where the movie is better than the book.

I disagree with that. A lot of YA is better written than adult books. You just have to know where to look.

Books like Twilight give YA a bad name - sure there's a lot of paranormal sappy teenage romances (just like there's a lot of sappy 30-year old chick-lit in the adult section) but that isn't the extent of YA.

For my part, The Hunger Games is a good story - but not deserving of all the hype surrounding it. There are better dystopian YA out there.

I'm really just assuming on the YA part. Other than the first paragraph of Twilight I haven't read any. I wasn't saying that YA itself is bad, but a big part of my frustrations with the books was that I felt at many points that things could have been taken further, and I thought maybe the lack of depth was because of the age of the intended audience.

Well - there is truth to that

I do get annoyed when people (not you - this is more a reaction to some comments I read online about JK bringing out a new book) assume YA is badly written or not worth reading, or easily written by anyone because it's not for adults. Its the kind of mentality that drives me nuts.

As if all adult literature is worthy of awards!

jeepcurlygurl · 02-29-2012, 01:41 PM

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Me too! I thought I was the only one. You know you're addicted to nc.com when you try to log on various times despite the previous failures

I thought it was the iphone app!! I did finally stop clicking on it...but it took me a while to give up.

Um, I used the app on my Droid and the mobile browser a few times before I gave up. I need help lol

I ended up doing a google search that said "I can't connect to naturallycurly.com!!" and something came up from 2009 but nothing recent. I thought maybe I had killed NC.com. I was scared! : )

iroc · 02-29-2012, 01:55 PM

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I thought it was the iphone app!! I did finally stop clicking on it...but it took me a while to give up.

Um, I used the app on my Droid and the mobile browser a few times before I gave up. I need help lol

I ended up doing a google search that said "I can't connect to naturallycurly.com!!" and something came up from 2009 but nothing recent. I thought maybe I had killed NC.com. I was scared! : )

After the 10th time I was like

"I can't connect to my hair board! This is stressing me out! I'm going to go take a shower."

Then I wondered if the boyfriend thinks I only talk about hair on the 'hair board'.

ninja dog · 02-29-2012, 02:34 PM

I just threatened my local Fox News affiliate.

I wonder if they're going to call the police.

curlysue21 · 02-29-2012, 02:40 PM

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Um, I used the app on my Droid and the mobile browser a few times before I gave up. I need help lol

I ended up doing a google search that said "I can't connect to naturallycurly.com!!" and something came up from 2009 but nothing recent. I thought maybe I had killed NC.com. I was scared! : )

After the 10th time I was like

"I can't connect to my hair board! This is stressing me out! I'm going to go take a shower."

Then I wondered if the boyfriend thinks I only talk about hair on the 'hair board'.

I was waiting for a thread to pop up this morning about what had happened. I also relentlessly kept trying to access on both phone and computer and gave up.

My husband has told me I talk about the curly board a lot.

ninja dog · 02-29-2012, 03:15 PM

*..........dying gasp*

"Tzell them..........you once knew............Ninja....chien........"

*cough*cough*.

misspam · 02-29-2012, 03:20 PM

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*..........dying gasp*

"Tzell them..........you once knew............Ninja....chien........"

*cough*cough*.

Spill it! What did you do???

ninja dog · 02-29-2012, 03:40 PM

I'll PM you.

nynaeve77 · 02-29-2012, 04:05 PM

PM me, too, Ninja.

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For some reason, the boy thinks that the word for booty is "baby". So if you ask him, "Davin, where's your baby?" he'll grab his butt. LOL

Saria · 02-29-2012, 04:20 PM

Korra from Legend of Korra | Cartoon | Nick.com

The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra Trailer Debut - IGN

I also love these comments made about the ****ty movie:

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that movie was ****eous

we don't talk about the movie

What movie?

wat r u talking about

It never happened imo.

no such movie exists

doesn't ring a bell tbh

what movie?

This thought is 100% PERFECTION:

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Chief Bei Fong...as in her daughter took her mother's name and not her father's....so either the father wasn't in the picture when she was born or Toph really is so fierce that she does not require the inferior genes of a man to procreate.

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Toph discovered and mastered a new practice called fetusbending!

rouquinne · 02-29-2012, 05:10 PM

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I just threatened my local Fox News affiliate.

I wonder if they're going to call the police.

head for the border and claim political asylum!

i'll take you in!

ninja dog · 02-29-2012, 05:11 PM

Finally!

We can be two redheads, on the lam.

Yay for Rou

rouquinne · 02-29-2012, 05:21 PM

ooooh, a remake of Thelma & Louise!

WITHOUT that crazy driving off a cliff into the Grand Canyon part, okay????

xcptnl · 02-29-2012, 05:25 PM

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ooooh, a remake of Thelma & Louise!

WITHOUT that crazy driving off a cliff into the Grand Canyon part, okay????

I hope you get Brad Pitt though

rouquinne · 02-29-2012, 05:34 PM

i could totally take on Angelina Jolie! did you see how thin she is lately????

B-Nessa11 · 02-29-2012, 06:12 PM

I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw how thin angelina is! They were talking about how beautiful she looks but she really looked unhealthy to me....Idunno. just a passing thought

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