Probably not.
NC is a great place for muni. Did they miss an opportunity?
I was really disappointed that Fitzgerald didn’t include any unicycling in The Great Gatsby. Long Island also has some great opportunities for riding of all sorts and it was a terrible omission. 
Ha ha. I can see it now. A unicycle amongst the weapons and supplies. Someone grabs a bow and arrow and takes off on a unicycle, killing as he/she goes.
It sounds like a new biathlon event for the olympics. 
Damn, this movie is really, really hyped! Hardly any other opening movies make it onto these forums for no particular reason.
It was actually well done. Understated even.
And Stanley Tucci was marvelous.
You’re a big Tucci fan if I remember. I trust your judgement in movies and Karen wants to see this one.
I just finished the book. Karen had it lying around. My son had recommended it to her. I was about a page into it when I realized it was written for 5th graders. That’s OK, it was a fast, fun read.
I spoke with my son about it yesterday. He had assigned it to his high school students in Bogota. That’s he he heard about it. They all speak fluent English but their reading skills are kind of behind their speaking skills. He wanted them to read some adolescent level prose.
Well, I used to trust your judgment. That’s not fair, I still do. I can still thank your past recommendation for allowing me to understand Richard Dreyfuss’ character’s response, as a playwrite, to Sarah Braverman in the Parenthood series when he said, “Do you think Stanley Kowalski was an average bus driver? Do you think Marty was an average butcher?” I wouldn’t have known who Marty was without your movie pick.
I found The Hunger Games to be very weak. Jennifer Lawrence was almost as good as Katniss Everdeen as she was playing Ree Dolly in Winter’s Bone, but not as good. And she couldn’t carry this movie on her own. The difference in integrity and compassion between Cinna and the rest of the Capitol crowd was well stated. The only other moderately believable characters were those with brief appearances: Prim, momma Everdeen, Gale, and the cat. The complexity of Peeta was never developed. Woody Harleson didn’t even begin to capture the debauchery of Haymitch. Donald Sutherland was completely unconvincing as the cold, ruthless, and calculating President Snow. Stanley Tucci is, of course, great, but what could he do with the scrap of a character that was fed to him.
I suppose that the box-office success of the movie alone will encourage the two sequels to be produced. I only fear that the very same success will encourage even sloppier screen writing and production.
Ask Tom Blackwood about John Gorka sometime.
Why? I’ve had John Gorka’s music in the house for 10 years.
Because I said to, that’s why. Or don’t, if that suits you.
You’ve suddenly become very flexible.
You have no idea.
I bet your wife is happy.
If you enjoyed the first book, do yourself a favor and skip the remaining two.
I’m not a huge fan of “young-adult” novels, but read it anyway (like you said, it is a very fast read). I thought it was a passable book, but nothing special. The second two are terrible.
I have to more or less respectfully disagree. I also don’t read a whole lot of young adult fiction, but my daughter recommended the first one to me. It was good, but I actually thought the second was even better. The third kind of dragged a bit though. (My kid never made it through the second two books.)
I thought the second one explored the meaning of power, resistance to power, and the relationship between the two more thoroughly and in depth. I enjoyed it. The third of course brought the whole thing to a conclusion but also did the whole, “meet the new boss, same as the old boss” theme well.
And I have to say that overall these books aren’t good because of the quality of the prose, they are good because of the story and themes they explore.