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I'm wondering if anyone's read the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins? I've just finished them and I personally think that they are great books. The trilogy takes place in a futuristic world; lots of action, a engaging plot, lotsof twists & turns. I highly recomend them. I got them on Bookshare, but I think they're on Web-Braille as well. Happy reading.
it's a pretty decent series. The characters are likable. the love triangle was much more relatable then a certain other series that's been bashed to death. The only thing I didn't like was how we never really learn why the world was the way it was. It's not really that important though. Either way it was a good "comtemporary" series.
Oh, that's so weird. I went into this board to see if anyone's posted on the Hunger Games and I see this message as the first. I loved this trilogy. I grabbed it from BARD and it's read by Erin Jones, who reads it so well I'd have paid to hear it. The trilogy was amazing and my wife, who normally isn't into SF, loved it and listened to it along with me. I have to agree that I'd love to see a prequel showing how Panem was formed.
It says something in book 1 I believe about our current country being destroyed by war activity and I don't know if people came from other countries or came above ground from some underground safe houses, but the country was rebuilt. Then the Dark Days happend when District 13 defied the Capitol and is was destroyed aboveground, but there were people who lived underground in 13.
I read these books with a friend. Ordinarily I'd read them in Braille, but since I was reading with someone, we read the Bard version. Erin Jones did a very good job narrating. But yes, they are also on Web-Braille.
Brandi is right. You do find out what happened to America, and how Panem was formed, as well as how the Hunger Games themselves came into existence. I'm not sure what you're curious about. Can you elaborate?
I thought they were great books. I liked the characters. It's rare that I like female characters in books, but I liked Katniss. Not so well in the third one, but no character is perfect. Either way, I'm glad I read them.
Lol Alicia. She disappointed me a little in Book 3 as well. She was more human in the first two.
Yeah, she went a little crazy in the third one. I loved the first one, and the second, but the third... I'm also totally for Gale, so I wished it'd been Gale not Peeta she'd married, but whatever. Peeta kinda went crazy in the third one too. I felt bad for him. Amazing books! :) I came on here to look for Hunger games stuff and just did a search for "hunger" and it popped up! :)
yeah, hunger games trilogy is awesome, and I think that it is normal for Katnis going a little crazy in book3 after experiencing lots of deaths specially when her sister died.
I just downloaded the first one from BARD and am looking foward to reading it after I finish my current book.
I'm not planning on reading them anytime soon. maybe years from now, if the hype ever goes down. I'm just not into doing things (reading books, in this case) that everyone else is.
I've been wanting to read these, but need to wait for a Braille display for the iPod. Frankly, I just don't get as much out of books when they're read to me via audio as when I can for myself. Guess that doesn't make much sense to some people, I realize audio is even popular for many sighted people friends of mine on commutes and such. But this series is really popular among most people I know so I may have to use the Bard equivalent.
It makes sense to me. It's the exact same way I feel about reading via audio. We all have our different styles. It is a worth-while series to check out. I admit Happy Heart that I sort of see where you're coming from in terms of experiencing things after the hype goes down. For me it's just because I like watching/reading/playing stories that have already been completed. That way I don't need to wait and thus forget what happened in a previous installment.
well you guys give me hope. one of my friends has teenage daughters and they are reading them together as a family. Every week at church I get the "when are you starting them?" routine. i'm not a sci fi and particularly a post apocolypse literature fan. I downloaded the first one, and like with my treadmill, I have to look at and mull it over for a while before taking the plunge. Since you all rate it so highly and said things that impress me, i'll start it after getting off the pc.
I downloaded them from bookshare a while ago and sat here for hours just reading ...
Fantastic books. I can't blame Katnis for having issues by the end of book three. she'd been through a hell of a lot by then, losing her sister and all. No wonder she snapped. these definitely kept me on the edge of my seat.
So the movie's been out for a couple weeks now. I wanna see it but I've heard it's not nearly as good as the books. That's disappointing, but I guess I'll have to see for myself.
I'm reading them currently. They're ok. The plot is a little predictable at times, and her writing style leaves a lot to be desired; or rather to be complained about. Like she says, "I said" and that kind of thing far too much. Also, I hate the names. Katnis, a type of plant, being the daughter of a hunter and a herbologist? Pita, a type of bread, being the son of a baker? Can you say little imagination?
glad to know I'm not missing anything.
Normally I wait for the hype to die down too but I'm glad I read these books. I enjoyed them quite a bit. I want to see the movie but will wait for it on netflics. I wish they'd come out wit a DVS version but then again, I wish that about all movies. lol
Something tells me they'll get around to describing this movie eventually. I saw it by myself. I didn't really get too lost, but the silent parts where there was just music playing, (when Katnis gets the medicine for her burns), kind of bored me. Given the context, I could follow it all right.
In response to post 16: it sounds like that was a naming custom of the times, which in my opinion totally works well for that particular culture. I did not have an issue with the names.
A fair bit of the series was actually pretty good, and I'm glad that I read it. It was interesting to see the futuristic development that the author came up with of our world, especially because it resonates with a lot of things that go on to this day with regards to reality shows. However, I have to say, the girl hero thing just totally did not work for this particular main character. She was so obviously a screw-up who let other people carry her, and who had one or two small ideas that portrayed her as being bigger and more important than she actually is, kind of like what had happened with Harry Potter when in actuality her screw-ups damned countless people to their deaths.
Spoiler alert:
In book 3 for example when she takes a group of people to go after president Snow, in the end her group actually succeeds at nothing more than getting a majority of its members killed. In the end, it's the rebels who end up taking over the president's mansion with little or no help from Katnis until round about the execution. She killed the rebel president in the end I grant you, but only after being led around like a good little puppy by her arch enemy to the truth that she should've seen all along.
As I said, I liked the series itself. there were a lot of good characters and ideas in it besides Katnis. However, her character development was just totally not doing it for me, and ended up messing up the series slightly in my eyes. I didn't view her as a hero, and found myself wishing that she would just die so that we'd stop reading about her drama queen attitude.
Ok i'll see the movie and read the books after that.
I liked this series, but the third book is if-y for me. I felt she just threw the book together and said 'Done!' I am not saying it is a bad book or anything though.
I do have to say that upon watching the movie, they really seem to expect a person to have at least a passing familiarity with the books. THey gloss over some rather important parts which are covered in the book.
Maddog,
She admits these flaws openly. You are supposed to be able to relate to her, not think she's a perfect hero.
I absolutely love these books. I would really appreciate a described version of the movie though. I loved it, but I got a little sleepy during the music only parts, particularly because it was the midnight premere.
I'm with Turricane. I've never been a fan of post apocolyptic type literature so I've never read the trilogy and have no plans to. The only real reason I even saw the movie was becausemy GF rented it last night. I wasn't all that impressed simply because it's not my thing.
I'll say it since no one else wants to say it: book 3 sucked rather horrifically. If you've read it and are a person who's familiar with the types of things you expect to see in books, then you know precisely what I mean when you say this.
As for relating to her, I honestly would want to know why any teenage girl would want to? It's basically saying, "hey, it's OK to be a drama queen crybaby. I'll admit that the compassion she shows is reassuring, but othertimes she's just honestly a total ditz that's got a reasonable bit of competency with archery weapons.
Ather and others, I think a lot of people share your feelings about the third book. I know I do. I liked Katniss pretty well in the first two, but not the third. The movie was terrible, in my opinion, but I already went off on that rant in another topic. I don't intend to see the other two. However, I am very glad I read the books, because I do like them.
And Ather, whatever else I can say about Katniss, at least she was a better heroine than Bella in the Twilight books. It doesn't get much worse than that.
Now that I can agree with, even though I actually did rather enjoy the Twilight saga. And that fact alone surprised me.
I just saw the movie and I really liked it. I have not read the books yet though. That sucks that her sister dies. Is that in the second or third one?
It's at the end of the third one.
I absoloutley love love love this series. When I first saw a summary on it I wasn't sure. I'm not usually into futuristic stuff, but I like this one. I also heard blind mice has the movie in descriptive. I'm gonna check it out, but I saw it in theatres and if you read the books it doesn't really need to be described. I just wish the series had been longer, I couldn't get enough! And I totally agree. Katniss is much better than Bella, by a long shot.
I don't mind futuristic stuff. But I'm not really a big fan of the dystopian stuff.
Moldy bread was better than bella.
I really liked them. it was a good series. but the only thing i disliked was it was like the harry potter series books. in a sence. but that's my thoughts.
How so? I'm not really seeing any connection there other thhan a repressive government. Which, if you're making that argument, it makes it like 1984 and the giver too.
How the heck are the Hunger Games remotely related to Harry Potter? There's no magic in the Hunger Games, whereas Harry Potter is centered around that. The Ministry of Magic in HP is composed of morons and bumbling idiots, whereas the government in the Hunger Games is composed of intelligent but bad people, oppressive and sinister. I think we're comparing apples to brownies here.
I agree. I don't see any similarities between HP and Hunger Games. I was interested to read the HP books from the get-go. I've never ad any intention of reading Hunger Games, again because I'm not a fan of that particular style.
I love the Hunger Games. I totally love this postapocalyptic, futuristic, distopian style of literature. I also liked the unique character names.
I also liked the movie, which I saw in descriptive this past weekend. The only thing I didn't appreciate was seeing how the gamemaker manipulated the arena to fuck with Katniss. But I absolutely loved the combative scenes. My favorite character in the movie was Haymitch. He was absolutely hilarious.
What I love about this trilogy is the absolute devastation at every turn. I am quite a pessimist, so I adore books containing decimation and deterioration of the main character's world, and wonderfully tragic endings. Those stories are more real to me in a sense, which is both sad and fucked up. But books like this make you consider the world around you and how much power the government takes from us.
Contrary to what others have said, I jump on the bandwagon when it comes to books and movies. If everyone else is reading it, I'll give it a go. I wanna know what all the hype is about. I wanna know what makes a book so appealing and lovable. And when books such as these are put on the big screen, I'll give that a shot too. I wouldn't dare miss out on delicious literature simply because the rest of the world or my community is inhaling it.
What I really like about this series is how it came to be. The author was watching TV one day, and she was flipping between coverage of a war and a reality show. It really made her realize how our society works, and how we are into destruction and manipulation. Anytime that is mentioned the public eats it up. In this series it's all about that. I think she was trying to say that in the future we will be in a place like Panam if we don't change our ways. The way she portrayed the government was also very intresting. It was also accurate.
How the hell is it like Harry Potter? Not seeing the connection here. I've really thought about it too.
Also, the movie was filmed where I live. I think that's awesome.
I agree, I really like what the book can tell us about our nature and our society. Great series.
yes, the movie has been described. Definitely can't wait to see what Catching Fire brings in November.
I thought the first book was extremely gruesome. Am finishing the trilogy now as EVERYBODY seems to be reading them.
I agree about Hunger Games not really being like Harry Potter. THe Ministry of Magic was, for the most part, merely incompetant rather than being truly evil the way the government of Panam was.