The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) in Reading with Style

Oct 19, 2010 Deidre rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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I just finished this book for the fourth time (I believe it was the fourth, since the first time was back in October of 2010, and I know I've read it at least twice since that first time around), and I realized that I never wrote a review for this.

Seriously feeling some shame right now, because that's just.. Lazy of me. I love this book, and Suzanne Collins, too much at this point to just leave a star rating and call it a day.

So I'll just say it, this book could have easily gone south. VERY easi ...more

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Jan 07, 2011 Isabell rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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I had heard a lot of good things about this book, but before I read (heard) it I had my reservations. From the description it just didn't seem like my sort of story. However, I changed my mind once I began listening the the audiobook.

The books begins interesting, stays interesting and ends interesting. Katniss is a likable heroine and the background story is very intriguing. The actual plot is simply gripping. There were surprises at every turn; I would rate the Hunger Games certainly among thos ...more

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Apr 14, 2011 Natasha rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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WOW> I can't believe how deep I fell into the stream of this book. Suzanne Collins amazed me with her setup of the Hunger Games series. Once I finished up the last page on my Kindle of the first book, I immediately opened up the next one in the series, Catching Fire. The cliff hangers in both of these books has such a compelling way of driving one to the next book. I'm on the last one now and just read page 1. I kind of don't want the series to end.....Once you read this first book Hunger Games ...more

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Apr 29, 2011 Isabell rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ed-german, audiobook, library-books, abridged, read-2011, listened, read-2012, double-editions, cover-green, lex-800

This review specifically relates to the German audiobook edition, which is an abridged reading.
Diese Rezension bezieht sich speziell auf die deutsche - gekürzte - Hörbuchausgabe.

DE: Das Buch an sich mochte ich sehr und habe ihm in meiner Rezension der ungekürzten englischen Hörbuchversion auch fünf Sterne gegeben. Als ich die gezürzte deutsche Fassung in der Bibliothek entdeckte, habe ich beschlossen es einmal damit zu versuchen, obwohl ich eigentlich nicht sonderlich angetan bin von gekürzten L This review specifically relates to the German audiobook edition, which is an abridged reading.
Diese Rezension bezieht sich speziell auf die deutsche - gekürzte - Hörbuchausgabe.

DE: Das Buch an sich mochte ich sehr und habe ihm in meiner Rezension der ungekürzten englischen Hörbuchversion auch fünf Sterne gegeben. Als ich die gezürzte deutsche Fassung in der Bibliothek entdeckte, habe ich beschlossen es einmal damit zu versuchen, obwohl ich eigentlich nicht sonderlich angetan bin von gekürzten Lesungen. Trotzdem wollte ich sehen, ob diese besser war als sonst, da ich durchaus der Ansicht bin, dass das Buch auch an ein paar Kürzungen nicht allzu leiden würde. Allerdings fand ich heraus, dass diese Produktion keine wirkliche Ausnahme zu meiner allgemeinen Meinung bildete. Ich vermisste insbesondere zwei Szenen: Einmal die Stunden im Trainingszentrum, ohne die einige der späteren Szenen aus dem Kontext gerissen schienen; die andere Szene ist das Lied, das Katniss für Rue singt. Davon abgesehen habe ich allerdings nichts wirklich im Hörbuch vermisst, insofern war meine ursprüngliche Einschätzung also korrekt und diese Produktion ist gar nicht mal so schlecht.

Die Sprecherin hatte ich vorher noch nie gehört, sodass ich mich erst an sie gewöhnen musste, aber nach einigen Titeln habe ich sie nicht mehr als störend wahrgenommen.

Alles in allem kriegt also selbst das gekürzte Hörbuch noch eine solide vier-Sterne Wertung. Es hätten sogar noch fünf Sterne werden können, wenn zumindest noch ein bisschen der Trainingsstunden dabei gewesen wären (zumindest die Trainingspunkte und Katniss' Pfeil in Richtung der Spielemacher).

EN: I enjoyed the book as a whole very much and gave it five stars in my review of the unabridged edition. When I found the German audiobook at my local library I gave it a try. Usually I'm opposed to any abridged readings. Still I was interested to see if this fared better, as I actually think that the book wouldn't be too bad being a bit shorter. However, I found that this is no exception to my general opinion. I especially missed to passages: one being the training sessions before the arena, without which some of the later scenes are quite out of context; the other is Katniss' song for Rue. Apart from that I didn't actually miss anything in this audiobook, so my original assessment was right that this production isn't too bad.

The narrator was new to me, so I needed some minutes to get accustomed to her, but after the first few tracks I didn't mind her much.

So all things considered I still give this a solid four-star rating. It might even still have been five stars, had at least some of the training session (like the training score and Katniss' arrow at the gamemakers) been included. ...more

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