You're on the toilet. It's been half an hour. You're constipated. You're wishing
you were reading the communist manifesto and then, in the last few minutes of your poop...
diarrhea. That is what it's like reading the ballad of the song birds and snakes.
*boop sound* Hi, it's Divya G. What does the g stand for? The g stands for "gReAt a depressing
origin story about how coriander-anus became a sadistic dictator with a stick up his own anus in
the middle of our own apocalypse? In the middle of a global pandemic? In the middle of a recession?
OoO sign me up! So this book is about our dear friend President Snow as a hunky teen
basically devising up different things for the 10th hunger games and he's out here gonna be
mentoring one of the tributes! Because you know... nothing says "planning" and "leadership" like
putting you know "devised revolutionary mechanisms for the hunger games operations at college"
on your cv. Now does it? As a 14 year old i was truly a hunger games sl- Now look at that...
braid? Hunger games salute? Oh my god eyebrow distance representing
the divide between the capital and the districts?Younger me truly had it all!
Suzanne Collins out here writing another book? For the Hunger Games? "Damn!", I said. It's time
to read again. I used to read so much that it became my only personality trait. I even made
a whole channel on it. Divya Reads. Now turned into 'itsdivya' and now i don't read anymore
and now i don't have a personality. I've tried everything to get back into reading;
sending my soul to jeff bezos; getting audible and i even now have a fancy lamp so i can
not sit in my own darkness. Look at this lamp.
It's a cool lamp. Why is it curved like that? I just tap it, it turns on. Illuminates
my whole desk. Makes me feel like like a like a tech geek you know? If you want your
own BenQ curved lamp because other lamps are very basic and don't fulfill your desire to
be a unique individual then i would suggest checking the description. It's a cool lamp.
Going into this book expecting hunger games 4 is like getting into a relationship with a man.
Baby you're just gonna be disappointed. So it took me a few months to read this book but yes
i did that. The book is really a philosophical questioning of the ultimate question of human
nature so how much of a person's personality and how they think and how they act derives
from nurture or does it derive from nature? It questions power strategy and control you know
why does president snow become a dictator? Some of the messages were a little bit too obvious.
There was this one scene they had to write an essay about chaos and control and then there's
another scene where they discuss with their teacher why do we need the hunger games why
"capital good poor people bad!". To put it very succinctly (because this 500 page book does not)
this book is like an additional tale basically explaining to you why the hunger games built like
that and why Corio got anus in his name? So we start off the book eating cabbage
no literally there's like a whole chapter explaining why Coriolanus is poor and he just
eats cabbage soup and his family just survive off the remains of tigris's fashion internship,
which we know she's getting exploited at! And then at that point i was like 'dear god Suzanne
please do not tell me that you are gonna create a book where it's like 'why did the
the evil man turn evil you know he was just very misinterpreted by society treat him wrong when
he was a child and now this is why it's like that joker type of movie oh my god no' thank
god it was not like that. Every time suzanne writes about food in her novels I'm just like
'i'm a vegetarian but even i want some of that lamb stew with dried plums Suzanne'. So
from the first chapter we establish Coriolanus i'm just gonna go i can't keep saying anus i'm gonna
get demonetized. I'm just gonna call him Corio yeah? We find out in like chapter two that Corio
is the epitome of 'fake it till you make it'. He's chatting up to his teachers. He pretends to
be charming. Pretends to actually give a sh- about what his friends are saying kind of like everyone
on linkedin. And i was just thinking i mean come on Corio... when you look like this you kind of
have to pretend. It's the 10th hunger games and the people in charge are like 'you know what's a
great idea yeah? If we get these children, these teenagers with zero experience to to mentor the
tributes!" lo and behold Corio gets assigned as a mentor. Um guess guess which district?
Did someone say 12? Oh my god yes district 12! How did you know? And guess the gender of the person?
A female from district 12? I haven't seen this before! So this girl's name is lucy gray bird now
she's a singer and we all know how suzanne loves her like metaphorical names.
Did you know that suzanne was this close to naming lucy grey bird america singer?
so lucy grey bird and all the other tributes are shipped off in a cargo
truck and they end up at the the zoo! What?! Is this a metaphor for something?
Well what could all this mean? Someone what what did you say? The tributes aren't seen as human?
um so Corio decides to join them because he wants to get on the good side of lucy gray
and lo and behold he gets locked up inside the zoo cage. That reminded me of that that one scene from
harry potter yeah that's Corio. Some irrelevant sh happens. So he goes to zoo he starts feeding
the tributes and then other people start feeding the tributes like their animals YAY HEE METAPHOR.
And then one of the tributes kills someone from the crowd and then there's a bombing and then
lucy grey bird saves Corio from the bombs and then Corio is like "Oh my god! She saved me! Oh my god
now I owe her! Oh my god what the HECK!" Usual Hunger Games stuff.
So this gives Corio the idea "hey what if we allow people to feed the tributes in the games?"
And then it's the day of the games and frankly the hunger games is a mess. It's in the early stages
of development. The games it's very like fetus. We see the games through the eyes of Corio so it's
very like dry and there's another man with anus in his name and his name is Sejanus. So Sejanus
is very clearly the one capital citizen who feels very morally obligated to point out about just
how wrong the capital is and everyone's a monster! He ends up in the games Corio teacher is like
[ __ ] isn't that your friend why didn't you go and get him out? Corio ends up in the games,
kills this other guy, saves Sejanus, they both get out and then he spends the rest of the time being
shook. Lucy Gray meanwhile has been in the arena she basically wins by hiding.
Mood. The game maker releases a bunch of
snakes! into the pit now Corio, smitten with lucy gray's wap, has been tempering
and he also tampered with the snake so he basically had a piece of cloth that
lucy gray wore so the snakes recognize her so that they don't bite her and
[ __ ] like that. She does the only thing that she knows how to do um
and my girl sings the snakes like this Bring me a little water now. Bring me a
little water Sylvie! The
game makers they're like [ __ ] we know you did that! So he [Corio] gets in trouble and he gets
sent off to become a peacekeeper. Can anyone here guess what district he's a peacekeeper in?
District 12? Yeah he becomes a peacekeeper in district 12
because he can't get enough of that WAP! Now bear in mind, this next part of the book
is the longest part of the book - I actually aged 20 years. I'm going to
give you a very brief rundown (because honestly it's not that important).
Lucy keeps singing her metaphorical songs so... many... songs..
for example we learn about the origins of the hanging tree!
I don't care Suzanne. Sejanus gets involved in like rebel business because he's like
'Screw you Capitol!' Corio is like oh my god what you say bad [ __ ] about the Capitol man? I'm
gonna record you with my jabberjay! And he records him with a jabberjay. Then he sends the jabberjay
to one of the professor people at like the capitol. Corio is like
"Mate! What have I done you know? What have I done?! I feel a bit guilty!"
but he only feels guilty because he thinks what if lucy gray's WAP turns
into a DAP when she finds out? A dry ass pu- okay yeah cool now what okay and then
Corio shoots some who tries to get involved with like thinking lucy gray is like the
honestly it doesn't matter. Sejanus obviously gets hanged and then right at the end is when it gets
weird right. Corio's like 'oh my god what if they find out that i'm the one who killed sejanus?
lucy can't find out you know what's the next solution me and lucy
we gotta run away! We gotta go into the forest! So Lucy and Corio
they run into the forest about to live there going up north eating worms and [ __ ] it
reminds me of when Gale was like "we could do it you know. Take off live in the woods". Lucy and
Corio walked so that Gale could run. Corio's like "wait why is lucy acting like that"
and he suspect that Lucy basically found out that he killed Sejanus. Anyway, so Lucy finds out and
she's like "oh my god" she gets a- everybody say with me: snake! and she flings it at him. The
snake bites Corio and Corio's like "i've been i've been killed i've been murdered" so he gets his gun
and starts shooting into the forest where lucy's hiding he's like "i don't know if i'm killing her
but this bit better shut up" then he goes to the hospital the doctor man looks at his little snake
bite and says this is not even a venemous snake you're literally just being a [ __ ]" basically
what we learned from that scene is that lucy grey bird is the reason why Corio is still a virgin.
Don't get me wrong yeah. At no point in the book was their romance romanticized like at all. They
were honestly the most horrible couple of 2020. Flat earth theory has more substance than their
relationship. I feel like Corio's character just see-sawed so much throughout the entire book. It
was like at one moment you have a little bit of humanity then right at the last minute you switch
up and you're like... I think the whole thing with this book is like i did not learn anything
new or discovered anything that i cared about that would add like a different dimension to what i've
already received in the first three books. But as a fan i just did not care about Coriolanus
Sejanus Highbottom Uranus. Just don't expect any points of like high action it's mostly just like
"why is Coriolanus snake". It dragged everything
but a wig and in my opinion it was just unnecessary we have a whole Haymitch
Suzanne. So i don't know what you guys thought about this book but i don't know i think like 2.5
maybe three? It was okay i didn't hate it it took me a while to read. The links between Katniss
Everdeen and Lucy Gray Bird I feel like katniss everdeen was just a slap in the face for President
Snow. Firstly the the reference to katniss, the singing the mockingjay, the pin and i'm just like
man... you're like lucy grey bird incarnated or some [ __ ]. Sorry babe Suzanne i do love
you lots really but this book just was not for me. It's a no. I'm so sick i don't even read
but i'm already sick of titles like this like the peeeh of the peeh and the peeh that's like MATE.
Next up on my reading list is um this. I bought this literally, oh there's a hair,
a year ago. I've been using it as a doorstop because i don't think this book or this man
deserves any of my respect um which is why it's a little bit tattered but
yeah i'll read this so that you don't have to not that you were going to.
But i'd love to hear your thoughts about the book did you like it do you not like it?
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that's a good one