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Loading... Los Juegos del Hambre (Hunger Games) (Spanish Edition) (edition 2009)by Suzanne Collins, Pilar Ramirez Tello (Translator)
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I really liked this book. Honestly, I don't remember if I ever read it before; it's true that I've had it on my bookshelf for years and maybe I never got around to reading it. However, now was its time, and I truly enjoyed it. The whole setting in a parallel and dystopian universe, Katniss's backstory, how she sacrifices herself for her sister, and everything she experiences in the games. I do know the story from the movies, but it's been a long time since I watched them, and I don't really remember the whole plot, so it was very entertaining to rediscover it by reading the book. ( ) This YA series makes some of the others (like Divergent and Maze Runner) look like they were written by children. It doesn't feel amateurishly planned and written, and it has a sense of maturity that most other YA novels don't have. The story feels... tangible. The themes are realistic, and the characters are complex. Suzanne Collins makes the reader truly understand them and what they stand for. They aren't just plot devices meant to propagate the story. They feel like living, breathing people trying to survive in a horrible world. The plot itself is amazing. It's a very simply concept (having a bunch of teenagers fight to the death in an arena for the whole world to watch), yet Suzanne Collins makes it seem like it could genuinely happen in our world. The political themes of control and class discrepancy make the story all the more believable. In addition, not everything is about surviving until the next day (unlike the Maze Runner franchise). Katniss Everdeen's never-ending concerns about her loved ones' safety and about standing up to the Capitol contribute to making her story one hell of a read. Even after the tributes are dead, the Games aren't. Katniss has to continue to playing the Capitol in order to ensure nothing happens to the people she loves. The "political thriller" aspect of this franchise made it SO MUCH better than if it were an simply an action novel about a fight to the death in a massive arena. The Games themselves are extremely well-paced and entertaining. Famine, thirst, violence, and even fireballs of death all contribute to making this a brutal survival story. Danger is at every corner, making the suspense of the reader shoot through the roof. I dare anyone to read this story for the first time and not get nervous at what's going to happen next. I do still have a few problems with this book, though. While the section of the book involving the Games themselves is well-paced, the sections before and after do drag sometimes. There is a lot of preparation before the Games begin, including a ton of food, fashion, and interviews, and I do wish Suzanne Collins paced these sections a little better. Obviously, it isn't all useless as there are lots of games to be played in order to gain sponsors and keep the Capitol pacified, but it still feels quite slow at times. Also, the book is quite monotonous in terms of its writing style the whole way through. It honestly seems like the narrator is bored telling it at times, but I'm not too pressed about it; it doesn't mean the story itself is boring.
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'*. Belongs to SeriesThe Hunger Games (1) Is contained inHas the adaptationIs parodied inInspiredHas as a reference guide/companionHas as a studyHas as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
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. No library descriptions found.
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