false 2767052 16 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. 2792775 book 1 10 2006 The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, #1) total:24574|5:15757|4:7211|3:1359|2:168|1:79| 24574 112121 38473 9170 5 82 false true Sat Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 18:53:46 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 20:10:10 -0700 2008 The Hunger ...more...]]> 4 68 false false Thu Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 10:26:56 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 15:34:54 -0700 2008
Man, I wish someone on my friends list here has also read Battle Royale and this book! The...more...]]> 5 22 false false Thu May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 08:43:56 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 18:55:29 -0700 2008 3 more...]]> 0 14 false false Thu Aug 14 20:06:52 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 23 10:01:19 -0700 2008 How the world ends: The usual--droughts, storms, fires, rising sea levels. When the dust cleared--over what used to be the U.S., at least--we were left with the nation of Panem, with its Capitol surrounded by 12 (once 13) districts that are entirely subservient to it and produce the goods to sustain...more...]]> 2 36 false true Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 11:24:39 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 07:59:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 10 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 10:54:12 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 14:29:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 38 false false Wed Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 06:35:17 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 06:46:41 -0700 2008 once more...]]> 5 12 false true Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 08:53:59 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 06:20:08 -0700 2008
(post-reading) Wow. Still out of breath. And somewhat . . . not unsatisfied, exactly, but wanting more. I'm definit...more...]]> 5 14 false false Mon Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 15:58:42 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 28 01:11:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 7 false false Fri Oct 31 07:46:29 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 30 08:51:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 5 true false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 14:39:49 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 20:49:45 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 5 10 false false Thu Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 13:02:24 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 08:49:13 -0700 2008 The Hunger Games is disturbing, romantic, and entrancing all at the same time. I could not stop reading. The characters are beautifully developed and the setting is eerie (too real and too plausible). At first I thought it the dystopian society would be hard to believe, but Collins really sells it. ...more...]]> 5 5 false false Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 18:01:20 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 18:08:54 -0800 2009 When her younger sister's name is chosen, Katniss takes her place. With her hunting and tracking skills, and her fiery temper, she c...more...]]> 3 9 false false Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 16:15:22 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 12:54:44 -0800 2008 2 Battle Royale (and the cult film adaptation by Fukasaku) are inevitable. The dystopian conceit -- a corrupt government punis...more...]]> 5 4 false false Fri Aug 08 14:06:42 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 18:40:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 5 false false Sat May 10 11:38:59 -0700 2008 Sat May 10 11:25:32 -0700 2008 Sat May 10 11:38:59 -0700 2008
It's set in the future in a time when North America is called Panem has been divided into 12 districts, and each district has a special function. Katniss is a 16-year-old girl fro...more...]]> 4 9 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 14:36:26 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 12:14:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 10 false false Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 10 15:58:33 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 15 08:19:06 -0700 2008 Until then I would have given The Hunger Games a four star rating: well-drawn, sympathetic characters, zippy plot, pathos; and what seemed to be a realistic story/page count proportion.
But then. "End of Book ...more...]]> 3 8 false false Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 11:35:36 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 16:08:27 -0700 2009 1 3.5 Stars

I loved this book and yet at times I hated it. Several times it made me cry, nearly sobbing out loud. It never made me laugh and pricked me to anger often.

Kantriss lives in District Twelve, an area devoted to coal mining in what was the Appalachian Mountains of N...more...]]> 4 3 false false Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 17:05:49 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 18:06:41 -0700 2009 At the beginning I was very hesitant...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6235030