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The Hunger Games | 
 enlarge | Author: Suzanne Collins
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  208 reviews
Sales Rank: 290
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.2 x 1.6
ISBN: 0439023483
EAN: 9780439023481
ASIN: 0439023483
Publication Date: September 14, 2008
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Product Description
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.
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 Dark and entertaining November 21, 2008
I read this book in one night! I was unable to put it down, and as soon as I did, my 12 year old daughter picked it up and read it. The story line, characters and imagination in the setting is all amazing. I can't wait for the next book to hit the shelf!
 Reminiscent of others but original none the less... November 20, 2008
I definitely felt this was going to be an unoriginal idea... at first... but then I read on. The book is very well written and the characters are worthy of the time we invest in them as the reader. But I couldn't help but think that this book seemed to fall into an overly re-used idea... something fun like a game (of challenge / chance / etc) is misdirected to us as innocence lost. This idea of the Twilight Zone twist that people now come to over-expect was once a great treasure in Science Fiction - "The Future that Could Be" and these types are always distopian in nature. Similar to Stephen King's The Running Man or Takami's Battle Royale or even slightly toward Shirley Jackson's The Lottery - the author lets us feel comfortable in a subject we have been immersed in culturally for thousands of years and then twists into a horrible feeling of disgust. The capturing of the characters familiarity to this otherwise alien idea only fuels the readers fascination. If you read this and find the story intriguing, then other books of this genre should not be overlooked - especially books from first half of the 20th Century (which often come closer to predicting the future then we would've ever imagined).
There are only x themes for a book to be about November 20, 2008
Well, all in all I really liked this book. It's a very familiar theme, post-apocalyptic, future world with some really old school notions about entertainment. So it takes place in the future and much like logans run or the running man, there are these events that rather brutal, to the point it's kind of uncomfortable to imagine. (The only rule of the game is you can't eat the other contestants ;-( )
Many such themed books involve people watching this brutality as spectators, like the Romans did with the gladiators. To be a little more timely, it's done as more of a reality show but the same principle holds. The heroine's little sister is chosen to participate and she nobly takes her place. That's how she gets involved in the whole thing. That's about the point the book stopped being really cool and just got cool. There's this love triangle thing that happens (I don't want to spoil it for anyone) that really made me feel like I was in a high school girl novel and not a brutal sci-fi novel.
The book is cool and I don't want to imply that I didn't like it. Like I said, it's very interesting, she does a great job creating a really creepy atmosphere that is very dark and miserable and some of the details are just plain awesome. I didn't like the love affair angle b/c just like Jar Jar Binks in star wars, it felt like it didn't naturally fit there and instead was shoved into fit.
All in all though, if you like sci-fi, like The Running Man, Logan's run etc, you'll like this.
Drew Me In November 20, 2008
I have never read any books by Suzanne Collins. From the first chapter she seemlessly drew me into Katniss's world. I was transported into a future that seemed real on every level. Katniss is a female lead, believable and strong, which I enjoyed very much.
The world in which she and the other individuals reside is full of hardships and the smallest joys. Approached from the aspect of young adults and children I wanted to know how it turned out for each of them and had to resist the urge to skip forward and satisfy my curiosity.
This book is classified as young adult/teen, however, as with books by other authors in this category, I would never have guessed it was not written for adults. I fully enjoyed it and the author. Before I finished Hunger Games I purchased Suzanne Collins's other novels and read them in short order. A fascinating book and a great author.
OH MY GOD!!! November 20, 2008
OMG!!! This is an awsome book!!! I read it in two days!!! I couldn't let go of it! It has everything you can think of, romance, acction, drama...you name it! I read A LOT, I have a lot of series and books that I have read and this book is definetly at my TOP 5! So don't think about it and buy it! You will not be disapponted with it! Believe me!!! BLESSED BE!!!
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