Just finished reading The Hunger Games — most of it in two sittings. Young adult post-apocalypse of the highest order, I was utterly emotionally involved from about 15 pages in. Basically, it’s Battle Royale with a differently slanted theme. Both stories involve groups of young people being forced to hunt and kill each other in a staged arena. Whereas Fukasaku’s film is inspired by the falsehoods perpetrated by WWII, Collins’ novel seemed to me to be about the repulsive gluttony of capitalism’s worst excesses.
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it’s the new thing all the kids are talking about, atm. though they reckon the third book is a kind o waste.
yeah. My agent mentioned it so I thought I’d better read it. An extremely engaging book. Extremely.
very well-written. Personally, I didn’t buy the premise. What you see with these tv shows is that people have much more sympathy for the underdog and that the public’s reaction is much more unpredictable. But… engaging and well-written.
we got to see very little actual audience response. Just the gifts they sent through ‘sponsorship’. Plenty of sympathetic nuances going on there.
Jen just finished the first one and is running out to buy the next two..
It’s a great read – I’ve even been recommending them to reluctant teen readers with positive results! 🙂