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Because Gale is never much of a priority to Katniss

That is what really didn’t make much sense to me, considering he is her closest friend and everything, and all her focus is on Peeta. The first two books are great overall though.

Many older books just drag for a hundred pages somewhere in the middle

Read any Dickens? I convinced a couple of my friends to read Bleak House to test the waters, and they both immediately started complaining about it to me. xD It just goes to show that the strict three act story structure of many movies and YA books is not always required (though the main idea of it is still used of course).

Which Agatha Christie novels have you read and which are your favorite?

All of the ones you mentioned are fantastic. I’ve read nearly the entire Hercule Poirot series, and Murder on the Orient Express, Murder of  Sir Roger Ackroyd, and Death on the Nile are probably my three favorites (but there are so many good ones).

And then there were none  is probably my third favorite stand alone book ever, though the ending was quite dark and disappointing (but very very memorable). However, the scene where the record player starts playing and a voice starts listing all of the crimes of each person in the room is still one of my favorite scenes in any book ever. It’s beyond good. As you can see, I’m a major Christie fan. xD

I have an instant answer for a series that has gotten worse the more I learned about how stories work XD Ranger’s apprentice.

I agree with everything you said. I read the series quite a while before I began writing, and I already thought the plot was quite trite and uninspiring. The main characters were solid, but the plot and events were just not great. Too the point that the last three or four books in the series I started skimming, and then I got to Emperor of Nihon-Ja and quit a quarter of the way through. xD It was bad. Some of my cousins love it, and they cajoled me into reading Brotherband. I quite a third of the way through the first book for pretty much everything you said. The characters and plot were top notch boring. Now hopefully several of the people on SE don’t see this post. xD

There’s this one series that I faintly remember, that I read back when I was a horse-crazy tween, which, thinking back on it, was actually pretty brilliantly written.

Was it called the Baker Family Series? I used to read that one way back in the day, it fits that description almost exactly (though I wouldn’t say it was terribly brilliant xD).

And another series I still reread now and then. It’s a duology called Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt.

That sounds very interesting. I looked it up, and it is now on my list. Is it your favorite fantasy series?