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    <body><![CDATA[Clearly Gregor was merely the prelude.  Suzanne Collins, you’ve been holding out on us, missy.  As an author we were accustomed to your fun adventures involving a boy, his sister, and a world beneath our world.  I think it's fair to say that we weren’t really expecting something like <em>The Hunger ...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23563684">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastically Written? Ooooh yeah! Compelling? Yup! Super Quick Read? Most definitely! Original? Um...well *shuffles feet, since I seem to be a rare non-five star-er* not original at all really.... <br/><br/>Man, I wish someone on my friends list here has also read Battle Royale and this book! The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27624850">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVE THIS BOOK!  I've said to a few people that if I wasn't married, I'd have to marry this book.  :)  I read the 400 page ARC in a less-than-24-hour time period (so quickly that it was never even on my &quot;currently reading&quot; shelf), which I've only done before with HP books, and I've just ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19515870">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Before I start into this review, I would like to pose a question. Why is it so hard to talk about the books we love? I have been having just an unrelenting bitch of a time writing this review. I keep falling into holes and back-pedaling, not wanting to sound too squee or insincere and bring ruinatio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69929396">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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, &quot;The Hunger Games.&quot; The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Katniss' sister is chosen by lottery, she steps up to go in her place. <br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>How the world ends:</em> 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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30193087">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have extremely mixed feelings about this book. I really wanted to love it, but the whole idea of kids killing kids in the name of ultimate reality TV was rather off-putting. I kept reading in the hopes that there would be an amazing moral-of-the-story kind of ending, but I can't say that the book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43948542">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The Hunger Games</em> 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. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30248011">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best children's/YA book I've read in a long time.  It's impossible to put down once you start it.<br/><br/>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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21984359">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Going into &quot;The Hunger Games,&quot; I heard all the hype about it, declaring it one of the best books of the year and possibly even a new classic.  The problem with hype like that is it sets unrealistic expectations for me.  As I sat down to finally read the book, I hoped I could separate the h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65792857">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When I turned the last page in this book I almost threw it across the room.<br/>Until then I would have given <em>The Hunger Games</em> a four star rating: well-drawn, sympathetic characters, zippy plot, pathos; and what seemed to be a realistic story/page count proportion.<br/>But then. &quot;End of Book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35010119">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>3.5 Stars</strong><br/><br/>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.  <br/><br/>Kantriss lives in District Twelve, an area devoted to coal mining in what was the Appalachian Mountains of N...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64388119">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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