I read the entire series in a week. Couldn't put the books down. When I couldnt find a used copy of the second book(I live in a college town with numerous used book stores which were all sold out) I shelled out $20 bucks for a new copy.

I saw the movie last weekend I was not disappointed. I find I always prefer the book version of something to the movie but other then a few details that will become important in movies 2, 3 & 4 I was quite satisfied.

I almost always read non fiction but as far as fiction goes I was obsessed with The Hunger Games. OBSESSED I TELL YOU!

I am 40 years old and Ive never read or seen a Twilight anything but the comparisons annoy the carp out of me. Where in the Hunger Games in there a vampire or werewolf?? Pulease! And Ive never seen Battle Royale (although now Im curious) so I hate the comparisons.

Is it the finest literature ever written? No. But its entertaining and quite frankly not so far fetched when you look at the way the world is going.

My 2 cents.. PK

Beats me up for Clive Cussler, but what can you do?

*hides*

Not even remotely interested in the books or the movie. Not my cup of tea. I feel the same about Twilight and Harry Potter.

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>Not even remotely interested in the
>books or the movie.
>Not my cup of tea.
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>about Twilight and Harry Potter.
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>>"navy"] Samboobree, brought to life
>by Arkie

i feel the same about twilight and harry potter and felt that way about Hunger Games until it was recommended by 2 friends with almost identical tastes in books and movies.

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Ditto to Matty.
I'm not into anything supernatural, particularly not young adult "paranormal fiction." But Hunger Games was just "futuristic" (yet primal) and had a compelling story. The author says she was inspired by watching Survivor and coverage of the Iraq war (or was it Afghanistan?) in the same evening. I can see how that inspired the books.

I've only read the first book (a one-three day read for almost every adult). I really enjoyed it. I saw the movie with my niece and my husband. We all found it compelling. Greatest movie? Nah. But it was a good PG-13 movie.

Boo-it would be a great beach read.

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Just read the book today - took me a couple of hours to finish it, found it to be an easy read with an interesting plot - not the greatest writing in the world but it was effective to keep the storyline moving fast. And yes, I could easily see the 'Survivor' influence on the book - are we that far off from seeing bootees being executed by Jiffy after each vote...live on TV?

The scary thing? It's not unfathomable that something like 'The Hunger Games' could happen in real life in, let's say, 25 years from now.

The manipulation of the game makers actually reminded more of Big Brother.

I've never watched Big Brother (other than maybe 3 or 4 episodes with Evel Dick and his daughter in their first go-around), so I don't have much to base it on, but I've seen manipulation by the editors in Survivor so I can easily see it happening.

Jiffy has been known to lead contestants along with leading questions in TC and challenges have been set up to favour certain contestants over others. There's, of course, the infamous lawsuit by Stacey accusing the producers of rigging the vote so that she would go instead of Rudy who was TV gold.

True. I was thinking more of the first season of BB (you know, the one beforeWill -- I think I was one of only 8 people to watch it) and since the housemates were bonding and this didn't make for great TV (in their opinion), BB desperate attempts to cause strife were very noticeable and kind of clumsy. The format for season one had every housemate nominate two people for eviction and then America voted who was let go. One nomination process (I think they were down to 7 at this point) had every housemate get exactly 2 votes -- there was a 7 way tie to America to vote on. This didn't sit well with BB and the following season the format change occured and the future additions of slop diet, etc. Considering one person had an anaphylactic reaction to the slop (she had disclosed she was allergic to shellfish and the producers didn't bother checking to see if the slop was OK for her), another had a lowblood sugar reaction that needed medical attention and another girl had a knife pulled on her by a house guest when they were drunk, I think you are more likely to be killled while on BB than Survivor. Because of the stunt casting of obnoxious people that is more extreme on Big Brother, I know I would more likely kill my fellow competitors on that show than on Survivor.

Started the first book last night and made it through the lottery picks for the Hunger Games. It's okay so far.

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