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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ** spoiler alert ** I have read so many books with a similar theme - Gathering Blue and The Giver by Lois Lowry, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. I don't think this book was as good as Lois Lowry's. However, it got progressively better from about half way through. Pretty disturbing, a society that enjoys watching children kill each other. I will, of course, be reading the next one, if only to find out which young man is chosen by Katniss. One can only assume that the next step is to take down the capitol. Am I wrong?? (  ) nittnut | Dec 27, 2009 |  Futuristic tale of the relationships surrounding a survivalist competition forced upon teenagers of less powerful districts in a world governed by the Capitol district. Suzanne Collins' expert, descriptive writings are full of action at every twist and turn and made me feel like I was watching the story unfold in full color instead of reading it. Can't wait for books 2 and 3 in the trilogy! (  ) deslivres5 | Dec 25, 2009 | Excellent book. I couldn't put it down! ( ) gladeslibrarian | Dec 22, 2009 | jmgold | Dec 21, 2009 | A half-assed book-mash of Shirley Jackson's The Lottery and Stephen King's The Running Man. It's all fine and well for its age range, but I really don't see what all the hype is about. The characters are not very endearing and the editor (if there was one) needs to be fired for the amount of gross oversights I found. ( ) benuathanasia | Dec 20, 2009 | 
 The concept of the book isn’t particularly original — a nearly identical premise is explored in “Battle Royale,” a wondrously gruesome Japanese novel that has been spun off into a popular manga series. Nor is there anything spectacular about the writing — the words describe the action and little else. But the considerable strength of the novel comes in Collins’s convincingly detailed world-building and her memorably complex and fascinating heroine. In fact, by not calling attention to itself, the text disappears in the way a good font does: nothing stands between Katniss and the reader, between Panem and America. The Hunger Games isn't exactly a deep work of literature, but it is a fun, exciting adventure story with a cool, believable female hero. And a entertainingly bleak, dystopian world with just enough of a reflection of our own reality to be thought-provoking. And most of all, a media-savvy story of on-camera slaughter by a former television professional. Good stuff, check it out.
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0439023483, Hardcover)Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:55 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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