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Couldn't put this down. Awesome. (  ) szbuhayar | May 24, 2020 |  This book was so hard to put down! Everyone was telling me to move it higher on my to-read list and now I know why!!!! Man, I am so nervous about what is to come! If I hadn't had work I would have stayed in bed reading til it was done! (  ) USFJoyGirl | May 17, 2020 | “The Hunger Games” is the best Science Fiction novel I’ve read in at least a decade. It gripped my imagination, my emotions, and my intellect from the first page and just kept on getting stronger. The first-person present-tense style of the book gives it the immediacy of a movie. The voice of the young narrator is honest and realistic and builds empathy quickly. The characters are drawn strongly enough to allow you to care what happens to them. The pace is fast. The prose is uncluttered. All of which means that the horror of the underlying idea emerges as a clear, grim, inescapable reality. This could easily have degenerated into a shoot-em-up video-game of a book, instead, by making the death and the violence real rather than glamorous, it becomes a book about the abuse of power, the nature of courage and the need to deal with what is in front of you without betraying yourself or those you love. I read this book in three days. If real-life hadn’t kept getting in the way, I would have read it in less. What kept me turning the pages wasn’t the desire to solve some clever rules-of-robotics puzzle, but the need to know what happened to the people. This book made me cry for the people in it. It made me angry at the exploitation and abuse of the powerless by the powerful. It made me think about how plausible the story is and how we sometimes fail to realize the scale of the atrocities we silently endorse. This book struck me as a manifesto for fundamental human rights: not to be enslaved, not to be hungry, not to be subject to violence from your own state. It made me realize that “Reality TV” is a social engineering tool that takes us further and further from reality and contributes to a level of noise and moral indifference that leaves us feeling powerless to change the world. Read this book. You won’t regret it. Oh, and when you buy it, buy the next two at the same time, you’ll save yourself a trip back to the bookstore. You are going to want to move straight on from one book to the next. ( ) MikeFinnFiction | May 16, 2020 | It's like reading a script to a good action movie. The whole thing is in the present tense! (  ) Jetztzeit | May 15, 2020 | So I finally decided to read The Hunger Games. I wasn't sure that I would enjoy this series upon hearing that it involved kids killing other kids for short. Before I read this book, I saw the movie. That is something I never do, but I am glad that I did. I enjoyed the movie and then I just had to get the book and read it. The story was definitely not what I expected and that was a good thing. I really like a story with a good, strong female character. So far I have really enjoyed this series. I am excited to start Catching Fire and see where Katniss and Peeta's relationship moves on from here. ( ) BelindaS7 | Apr 14, 2020 |
Het verhaal, vertaald uit het Engels, speelt zich af in de toekomst. Na een burgeroorlog is van Noord-Amerika het land Panem overgebleven, bestaande uit het welvarende Capitool met twaalf daaraan ondergeschikte districten, waarin veel armoede en onvrijheid heersen. In de jaarlijkse Hongerspelen moeten 24 kinderen, uit elk district een jongen en een meisje, strijden op leven en dood in een ‘Big Brother’-omgeving. Katniss Everdeen (16, ik-figuur) uit het 12e, armoedigste district springt in de bres voor haar jongere zusje Prim wanneer deze wordt uitgeloot. Na een wat aarzelend begin krijgt het verhaal vaart in het tweede en derde deel. Het thema is gedurfd: een strijd op leven en dood tussen twaalf- en achttienjarigen, als vorm van vermaak. Wie is de slimste overlever? De auteur creëert een eigen begrippenkader dat zijdelings doet denken aan Harry Potter. Ze combineert overlevingstechnieken uit de traditie van Jean Auels prehistorische romans met ultramoderne technologie. Het slot lijkt voorspelbaar, maar is dat niet. Spanning, romantiek en het open einde maken de lezer nieuwsgierig naar het volgende boek in deze serie, 'De Hongerspelen II: vlammen'*. Is contained inHas the adaptationIs parodied inHas as a reference guide/companionHas as a student's study guide
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