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The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
I'm hold 54 at the library for the first one.
54th in line? Ooof that'll take a while:(
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HOW FREAKING GOOD WAS IT?! well, personally the first one was my fav..it didn't exactly go downhill from there...but it just didn't rock my socks as much :/
Yeah I know what you mean, I think it was just all a huge hunger games that was replayed over and over, but I guess that was the point, to show inhuman it all is.
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Yeah but I was kinda disappointed with the ending. I was like 'what? Is that it?'
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I never really felt that Gale was gonna work, they just seemed to brother and sister for it to actually work
But I still was shocked with the way he seemed to disappear at the end. I thought he liked Katniss? But maybe he could see her getting closer to Peeta as he recovered.
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It's good BD, I think you'll like it, but it is a bit gritty:p
as in it's about war and the harshness of it all
I am into all that apocaliptic love/war stuff so i read Hunger Games. Its like ok but i dont see what all the hype is about. I found it kinda predictable. Like well no duh thay r both going to live, no one would like it if Peeta had died. Out of 10 i give it like mabye a 4.5. It didnt make me want to read the others :P
Yeah I gotta agree it was kinda predictable, but it was more what happened while they got there that was more interesting:)
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wow. WOW. I was bloody addicted. Started at 11 and finished in the wee(?) hours of the morning :LL
IT WAS OUTSTANDING! well, the first one was..but wow. 4.5 :/
Hmm I woudn't give a 4.5. more like a 7.8:)
Yeah i kinda got carried away :/ sorry if any one was offended, its not that bad oops :) 7 sound more like it it is about more what is happening like woolfie said
Yeah but I think the Story has pretty much run it's course, I agree it did get a little tedious and formulaic as it went on, it felt like she was trying to retain the essential idea of the Hunger Games and extrapolate it to the trilogy. I was a good idea but one that was immediately 'gettable', at least I thought so and the second Hunger Games; The Winners edition felt very forced.But I for one hope she doesn't add another book as the main characters, were not that interesting to begin with, and their little tragedies have been played out, so there's not really any need to have a 'spin-off' or a 'filler' book to explain things already explained further.
The worst she could do is do a prequelabout Katniss's father or Haymitch winning the Hunger games, but it would smack of a desperate attempt to keep the dying embers of a bonfire of a series going. Just my opinion:p
Yeah alot of authors just try to force other books in to make a long series. :P it is just a money making thing especially if their first book becomes a hit. The other books r never as good
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I know that the prequel or sequel thing might be true...but I know for a fact that I'd still read them anyway if they ever happened :DD
Tt you're not alone there, I always go into a Harry Potter movie thinking 'wow this is gonna be awesome' and I always come out with a 'wtf did they do to my beloved book?' lolThe first book was actually bought for my sister by my Aunt, but I somehow got to it first and read ,adn I never looked back. Back then we didn't get her books here in Malaysia, I'm proud to say that I read Harry Potter and Lord of The Rings way before the hype and hoopla happened:)
lol I can't really claim that honour lol, but I did wait on the brink of insanity for a week waiting for my Aunt's package to reach me, coz she'd bought Prisoner of Azkaban for me, and I got it one evening and read it through the night, I didn't sleep till I finished it:p
Omg i do the same thing woolfie :D. When my mom bought me the last book to the chaos walking series Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness (its a very good series u should read it) i stayed up the whole night and read all 617 pages :) i do that with all interesting books :)
lol we're both nuts clearly Kezia:pHas anyone else had this experience, of staying up all night to read a book they desperately desperately desperately wanted to read?
What book was it?
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was it worth forcing your eyes open till the end?
I didnt feel sleepy while reading but when i put the book down it hit me :)
Yup, zonk zzzzzzzzWhen you'reading, curiosity gives you energy:)
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I want to read that book is it really good?
Tt wrote: "I was like that with Project 17. by...by.....agh some person...It was really really scary!! But really really good!!! And normally books dont scare me but with this one I had to sleep with our fami..."Wow i have read some books like that :) then i pull out my old teddy bear and sleep w/it hugged against me :)
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ehh you talkina me, coz I've not read either:p
Zainab wrote: "Do you mean Clockwork Angel or Blood Promise?? :D"I was talking about clockwork angel :) is it good? I saw one of my friends reading it and i love Cassandra Clare the author so i figured it wold be a good read :)
nope not me, I get into books yes, but I've never been scared by them:p
I guess it's not as arresting coz it's not visual and Ialways see the words on the page:p
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Omg zainab its a series :) i didnt know that !!! Now im even more excited
Tt wrote: "Really??? Then how are you so into reading?????? I read because I have a really good imagination, or so Im told, and I can see everything thats happening in the story as Im reading it. Thats why I ..."I am the EXACT same way :D i have a great imagination! While i read, a movie plays in my head so i get mad when Hollywood gets ahold of it and ruins it >:(
Well I do see the characters and scenes described, just when I close my eyes:p And I've been like that for the Harry Potter moves, go in all happy and excited, come out all pissed off, and annoyed they didn't include this and that, that this didn't happen the way it was supposed to etc
Yeah :) me and my friend went to go see Harry Pottet and the half blood prince and when we came out she was so mad! I havent read the series so i like the movies :) but she doesnt beacuse they leave out parts
Yeah there's something kinda magical to have the inital hype around a book die down only to have it amped up again when there's talk of a movie adaptation. Sometimes on the wave of hype the effect isn't so great, but I guess now it's all about capitalising on emerging fanbases and suckering them into potentially disappointing 'official' movie franchises of beloved books.
Yeah i totally agree. The did the same thing w/lighting theif series. Once gradually slowed, out came the movie and people fell in love with the books all over again. I actually am looking forward to the hunger games movie though :)
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I know it comes out in 2013 and its gonna be hard to make
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