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UnseenWombat said:
I wasn't disappointed by Mockingjay. I still couldn't put it down. I agree the expository ending didn't seem written with the same personality as the rest of the books, but I was satisfied with it.

I was disappointed by The Amber Spyglass though. I read it before the days when I could have just gotten on the internet and learned about what Pullman was trying to pull. So I, as a Christian, read the first two and was enthralled, then read the third one and felt like I had been tricked. Like someone handed me a sucker and upon putting it in my mouth I found out it was dirt-flavored.
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It was the way things were really building up and then, in an almost literal boom, the ending was cut to... To THAT. Also, I'm hoping it wasn't a plot twist that she chooses to [LOLSPOILERS]
kill Coin and not Snow.
Because if it were, then it was the most predictable twist I've ever experienced.

At the end, part of me wanted her to (KIND OF SPOILER. NOT REALLY.
wake up, not in hospital, but back in the first Hunger Games, recovering from the Tracker Jacker venom after the three days.
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As for Pullman, yeah I can see how it might be from a Christian p.o.v, must have felt betrayed?
 
Le_Bello said:
It was the way things were really building up and then, in an almost literal boom, the ending was cut to... To THAT.
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Yeah, I know what you mean. Sorta felt like she was running up to a deadline and had to cut out 3/4 of the story, Taki, Talim, Yun Sung... Oh wait, I'm thinking of something else.

Also, I'm hoping it wasn't a plot twist that she chooses to [LOLSPOILERS]
kill Coin and not Snow.
Because if it were, then it was the most predictable twist I've ever experienced.
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I didn't feel satisfied even by that after what happened to Prim. I wasn't even totally sure Coin was responsible, though she probably was.

At the end, part of me wanted her to (KIND OF SPOILER. NOT REALLY.
wake up, not in hospital, but back in the first Hunger Games, recovering from the Tracker Jacker venom after the three days.
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Now that would have been a twist!

As for Pullman, yeah I can see how it might be from a Christian p.o.v, must have felt betrayed?
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I felt like I had been reading a completely different story up about to the point where
they killed God.
It would have been nice if he had written in some kind of hints to let us know that this was as much atheist propaganda as Narnia is Christian. Maybe it's just me, but I still think Narnia was better. Dark Materials left me feeling hopeless and depressed. Narnia made me feel joyful and wanting to become a better person.
 
UnseenWombat said:
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:P It DOES feel like she was pressed to finish it. But even then all the sudden deaths with not warning or real reflection on? No love. Only GRRM pulls that off.

But I blame Coin regardless. I'm certain only she would have that authority. I still prefer my ending ;D

See, Pullman's twist took me completely by surprise, though possibly because I was younger, but even then I realised it was quite controversial. It should've been toned down.
 
I don't understand why the end of Mockingjay had to be rushed so badly when it felt like the stay at District 13 lasted so damn long. That book is full of wasted space that forces important events to the sideline. Decent series as a whole, but some wasted potential at the end.
 
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