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I read it this weekend. I'm kind of surprised they advertise it as a young-adult story. I found it incredibly disturbing.

I don't think I'll bother reading any more of the series now that I got the gist of the storyline. The writing was ok, but not spectacular.

My son says the story sounds like a copy-cat telling of Battle Royale. But I've not read the latter.

I hope my confidence that our governing bodies would never, ever resort to forcing kids to kill kids is well-founded.

Anyways, Hunger Games is coming out in movie form shortly.



Edited, Nov 28th 2011 5:43pm by Elinda

I wasn't all that impressed by it. Certainly not enough to go read the others. The story wasn't anything special and I don't think Collins is that great a writer in the first place (the Gregor the Overlander books weren't that good either.)

You will.

The question is just if they'd be allowed to take their canes/walkers in the ring with them or not.

The plot was gripping, no doubt, just too disturbing. I guess there are just some places my imagination doesn't like to go. It gave me a nightmare.

The movie trailer actually looks pretty good and typically stories told via movies are less 'real' to me than those read in books so I might actually see it.

I didn't know there were reading levels after the Sally, Dick and Jane Learn to read books.

Anyways, if you're getting headaches from reading I'd have your eyes checked.

I enjoyed the series. It wasn't all that amazing literary-wise (as said, the writing is mostly for young adult audiences), but the plot was interesting for the first and second books. I didn't care for the third book, which is the general consensus among everyone who has read all three. Not because the ending was depressing (though it was), but because the entire book seems to pass in a blur as the main character is actually under drugs for most of it. The descriptions are lacking, and the action is way too uneven. At one point a character died and I didn't even realize it until several pages later when they mentioned the name again.

Meh, worth reading, but I like Battle Royale better for a survival story.

I agree with all of this. I didn't read, but listened to the audio books. I listened to all 3 hoping something great would happen and it didn't.

It's closer to Battle Royale than Running Man (both novel and film), but yeah same difference.

The movie's rating 90% on the tomato-meter.

Maybe I'll take the kid to see it this weekend. We've both read the book and have conversed about it a couple times - so it should be interesting.

Didn't like the 3rd book. Not because of the ending, but because most of it was boring & I don't know if Snow Spoilerwas lying or not. The ending actually didn't bother me & was happier than I thought it would be.

But it seemed, to me anyway, that the author just gave up, resolved the Spoilerlove triangle in a couple of pages, and ended it.

Edited, Mar 24th 2012 5:56am by Omegavegeta

Some people still need to be beaten with sticks.

I had watched the trailer to the movie while I was reading the book, so had envisioned many of the characters similarly to how they were portrayed in the early trailers. My son, however, said he had envisioned Rue as oriental.

Regardless of skin color she was adorable.

Her death in the book was the most disturbing of all as she was entrapped in that net. It was just so primal and animistic. One small change to the story from the book to the movie though changed all that. In the book Katniss didn't have time to cut her out of the net before the thrown spear took Rue down. In the movie Katniss did get her out of the net. Rue was standing, no longer a trapped animal. Funny how such a little thing can make such a difference - to me anyways.

I've noticed that a lot of my friends have read the book because of a girlfriend's request. With others having mentioned the similarities to Battle Royale, I'm wondering if this is the ladies' version of the story concept.

Edited, Mar 27th 2012 5:07pm by Allegory

And you just further convinced me not to bother reading it. I appreciate it.

And suddenly I find myself wanting to read it.

I'm 1/3 through the book, and have yet to see any action (it's about to start though). Frankly, despite the lack of action the book's been decent so far. And it's taken me... 3 hours of reading to get to this point. So it's a pretty quick read, which is nice.

Finished the first book, enjoyed it enough to read the others at some point. Though I am slightly annoyed at how the first book ended.

I just finished the trilogy last night, and overall I really enjoyed it. At the end of the first book, I wasn't overly impressed but that might have been because I saw the movie first. Who knows? The last couple chapters of the third book had me with tears streaming down my face, and I'm not normally one who cries because of a book or tv show/movie. I'll agree that Collins is not a fabulous writer, but overall I think the books were really good. I got to know the characters, identify with them, and generally like most of them and I thought the plot was interesting.

As far as the complaints about the clothing descriptions go, I don't quite follow. They didn't seem to drag on that much to me, and I'm not someone who particularly cares that much about fashion. I feel like she spent an appropriate time describing outfits when they were relevant, but she didn't get over the top. She certainly didn't drone on about the outfits for pages at a time. But to each their own.