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Work detailsThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games is about a girl called Katniss Everdeen, who lives with her mother and sister Prim in District 12 in a country called Panem. Every year the Capitol of Panem hosts an event called the Hunger Games. This is the Capitol's way of keeping all the districts in line. The Hunger Games is where two tributes, a boy and a girl, are picked from each of the twelve districts and are taken to an arena to fight until they die. This fight for survival is live on TV and unfortunately it doesn't end until there is one person left standing. Katniss's younger sister is selected for the Hunger Games and so Katniss volunteers to take her place. I loved this book, because it is full of action, emotion, suspense, romance and excitement.I read this book in two days and all I did for those two days was read until I finished, it was that extraordinary! The author has done a great job writing a book that is life changing and definitely worth reading. Suzanne Collins has done everything right, the description is beyond amazing, the characters are lovable and the story line is mind-blowing. It is a mix of romance, action and tragedy.This book is without a doubt one to read.  Alishagoves | Jun 16, 2013 |  Of course, I had heard about this book. And thought it wasn't for me. Then my new phone had a trial version of kindle with Hunger Games right on it. Just a few pages of it. It was enough. I HAD to get the book and read it! Like others, I just got hooked, couldn't put it down. No real explanation why it is so grabbing. The literary style isn't extraordinary, no frills, just plain story telling. It does take you right in. And maybe it is this other world that the reader seems to know so well although it is fictional. And Catniss, the person we all hope to be or at least to have around. (  ) etjada | Jun 16, 2013 | Clever. Exciting. Disturbing. (  ) Snukes | Jun 14, 2013 | I tried to fight the urge to start the Hunger Games trilogy. I'm not one to read popular books, I'm usually stuck in my world of psychology. Nonetheless, I ventured to the wild side. It took me a couple of chapters to really get into the book; it started out slowly. Once I got through the first three or so chapters, I was hooked. I couldn't explain the excitement I had while reading the book and how I looked forward to going to bed each night just so I could read it! It's amazing how the author provided enough detail to make it feel like I was in the book! ( ) ADillon | Jun 13, 2013 | I always have a hard time writing reviews about books I really love. I don't know why but it is much harder to express how amazing something is than to criticize. This is one of those books that I've read over and over and still love. Dystopian books are my favorites I love escaping into another world similar to our own. It makes you think about what you have in the here and now and these books sometimes even make you appreciate your own life a little more. The main characters are all very loveable; Katniss is the bravest heroin I've ever met in a book. She is honest, fair, kicks ass but is also caring and sweet. Eventhough this book is about children killing other children it is not all about murder and dead. It is about fighting for yourself, your community and friends. But also about the struggle of becoming who you want to be and what you are expected to be. The love and hate between regions and people can also not be forgotten, it is one of the main story lines in this book since it is all about the different districts. All characters are described in so much detail that, even in the midst of battle the author tweaks in a little description of one of the players. This is where the hate and love comes in mostly; it's hard to see some of your favorite side characters die. The view on how people from different places respect each other and can cooperate even though they know that in the end they will have to kill each other is amazing and oh so very interesting. This story just drags you in from the beginning it's hard to put the book down after starting. I've heard rumors about the other books being less amazing. Of course I will see this for myself; however I have to say this book was so great that it will be hard for Suzanne Collins to top this one. Love, Anne http://pursuit-of-books.blogspot.com ( ) pursuitofbooks | Jun 13, 2013 |
 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. As negative Utopias go, Suzanne Collins has created a dilly. The United States is gone. North America has become Panem, a TV-dominated dictatorship run from a city called the Capitol. The rest of Panem is divided into 12 Districts (the former 13th had the bad judgment to revolt and no longer exists). Is contained inIs parodied inHas as a reference guide/companion
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In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.… (more)
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