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The Hunger Games Trilogy : The Hunger Games / Catching Fire / Mockingjay
The Hunger Games Trilogy The Hunger Games / Catching Fire / Mockingjay
Author: Suzanne Collins
The TV game show only has one rule: kill or be killed. Katniss must play or die. But she won't give up without a fight... In District 12, where Katniss Everdeen lives, life is harsh and brutal, ruled from afar by the all-powerful leaders of the Capitol. The climax of each year is the savage Hunger Games - where twelve boys and twelve girls f...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780545305495
ISBN-10: 0545305497
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 1,170
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  • Currently 4.6/5 Stars.
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4.6 stars, based on 118 ratings
Publisher: Scholastic
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Audio CD
Members Wishing: 10
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Cordelia avatar reviewed The Hunger Games Trilogy : The Hunger Games / Catching Fire / Mockingjay on + 153 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I did find them fast paced but felt that they should have been marketed to an older age group.
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krisann avatar reviewed The Hunger Games Trilogy : The Hunger Games / Catching Fire / Mockingjay on + 76 more book reviews
I am not usually a person who follows "Hype", most times I just steer clear from any movie or book that receives too much attention but my interest was piqued with The Hunger Games. I think what makes this trilogy interesting is that you can see a country, say North Korea, doing something like this to their people...starve them, in slave them, break them down into Districts where each resource (coal, grain, fishing, etc.) from the District feeds the capitol, make a game out of their despair and misery and in the end an uprising.

Though I enjoyed this trilogy I did struggle with liking the main character Katniss. By book 3 I pretty much just wanted to know what happened to the other people who played a vital role in her life and really didnt care to know what happened to her. I felt her character was too self loathing. Its hard to read a series and slowly dislike the main protagonist. But through it all I felt the story was thought provoking and the futurist aspect very interesting.

The movie was great and it followed the first book very closely. Matthew McConaughey playing Haymitch was a suprise to me, in my mind I pictured someone sloppy and sloth like (two things Matthew is not) but he did a good job and I thought the casting of Lenny Kravitz was perfect.


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