03-28-2012, 08:52 PM | #1 | |
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The Hunger Games
A fantastic trio of books written by Suzanne Collins, now best-selling author. The first of the three books was recently released in film form, titled the same as the first book and the series itself, The Hunger Games. A quick overview from Wikipedia:
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Spoiler: show Some comparisons have been drawn between this book and the Battle Royale series, suggesting that it might have been heavily inspired or plain old ripped off by this series. Take that as you will, but I think that this series holds its own enough to be worth checking out. In any case, I just wrote up a lengthy tumblr post comparing things I liked from the book and the movie for those of you who haven't seen or read one or the other. Or if you're interested. [/shameless plug] May the odds ever be in your favor! |
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03-28-2012, 08:55 PM | #2 |
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I found the first book very meh, and didn't continue the rest of the series. I will inevitably get dragged to see the movie with my shameless fanboy/fangirl friends, however.
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03-28-2012, 09:16 PM | #3 |
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The book, for all its disadvantages, is immensely readable by people who don't usually read. People like teenagers, young boys, young girls, and even older people are being sucked into the book as easily as you or I (depending on your tastes, of course) might get sucked into Pride and Prejudice or Ender's Game (and co.).
My sister spent all of Saturday just riveted on a book, which is something I've never seen her do before with anything. Not even Sherlock Holmes. She even refuses to read books that aren't "suitable" for her because they're "too difficult", but she took to the dystopian concepts like a gorilla to water. (Oh, sorry, my bad habit of intentionally mangling idioms is showing again.) While I did enjoy it, I'm just glad to see a movie on a book I read because it's nice to feel validated like that. Or in the case of Eragon/Harry Potter VI, justified in your horror at the unspeakable story-surgery being performed on essential plot details.
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03-28-2012, 10:50 PM | #4 |
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I'm 80 pages into the first book as of acquiring it in the early afternoon and will probably finish by tomorrow evening. I just got back from seeing it a second time with another friend.
I'm already seeing the clear cut differences someone else mentioned, as the beginning of the book is shaped rather differently than it is in the movie, although apparently almost everything else from that point on carries over and is almost spot on. As for Catching Fire and Mockingjay, I hear that one of those books is going to be split into two movies, and while people speculate that it's going to be the third as has been happening with books like HP7 and Breaking Dawn, there's apparently a lot of support for the second movie being the one to be split, or perhaps the third movie being a mix of the latter half of the second and the former half of the third. Catching Fire comes out next year... speaking of, I never realized audiobooks were so expensive. I was thinking about listening to it as I work, but then I tried to text-to-speech the first chapter sample on my android and that worked nicely, but unfortunately it cuts off it the phone locks, which really blows :/ |
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oh. i wonder what happens next. and then utter apathy until you went and read Mockingjay. It'd be nice to see the real meat of Catching Fire, and the stuff that needs to be remembered, portrayed in the movie, and then the great big plot culmination at the end. Yeah, there's a lot to cover in Mockingjay, but it'll be worth it if we can split D13 from the Hunger Games instead of the unholy union that Catching Fire tried to be.
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03-30-2012, 05:57 PM | #6 |
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Just finished the first book. Getting Catching Fire tonight. Definitely think they did an excellent job not cutting much out for the movie.
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03-30-2012, 06:13 PM | #7 |
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Just finished Catching Fire. I can see what Shuckle kinda means. It feels like a very in-between book that is kind of building plot and characters that are needed for Mockingjay.
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03-30-2012, 11:37 PM | #8 |
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Oh my.
>How Gale feels about Peeta x Katniss |
03-31-2012, 12:28 AM | #10 |
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I will punch you.
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04-01-2012, 04:43 PM | #11 |
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Anyway, which was better in your opinion? Catching Fire or The Hunger Games?
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04-03-2012, 11:32 AM | #13 |
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I just finished Mockingjay early this morning, stayed up all night reading it.
I felt empty at first but now I'm just... :/ hmm. Not sure. Spoiler: show Edit: more thoughts Spoiler: show
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So I just realized the house in which I live has the full trilogy. Will read once I finish rereading the Artemis Fowl series. Spoil anything for me and I will track you down and gut you with a knife. ~<3
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Hmmm. Hmmmm... As tempting as it is to spoil the series for you, I know you know where I live, so I'm going to keep my mouth shut so I can keep my life. =D
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