Welcome to the exciting conclusion of The Hunger Games! Death! Romance! Lamb stew with plums!
Unfortunately, Alex couldn’t make this episode, so Chris and Ezra boot up their invention, the Alexbot, to take his place. It speaks in 1s, 0s, and HATE.
But Alexbot’s robotic sarcasm isn’t nearly enough to counter how likable The Hunger Games was. There’s a bloody mess, zombie dogs, psychedelic bees, and a love triangle that’s only somewhat tacked on.
Joining us for the first bit of gender balance ever are Destinee and Lisa. Destinee, of course, is a children’s librarian, and famously impersonated two different versions of God in our episode on the Shack.
Fan-favorite Lisa is now an expert on child psychology, so we pick her brain on how best to train kids to become ruthless killing machines.
Also, “Shut up and eat your pears” is the new “I love you.” Start using it now.
You guys should use more Beatles songs as bumpers! hahaha!
The way I actually feel about this book is that the plot is SO silly and ridiculous, but that it’s very well written. So I enjoyed reading it but it has some serious problems when I try to think about it.
Interesting. I actually thought that the story was interesting, but the writing was very awkward.
Weird. I think kid-death is a strange vehicle for a young adult book. And I don’t buy the premise that “the government is evil” can explain any ridiculous thing, like zombie-dog-people.
Aw man, considering current politics….
I LAUGHED SO HARD AT THE EAT YOUR PEARS LINE