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The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins

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Post by rockygirl » Mon April 22nd, 2013, 12:10 am

Finally starting this series at the request of a student who wants to read it with me. Not looking forward to it.

Is it any good? Or is it just popular?
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Post by EC2 » Mon April 22nd, 2013, 2:51 pm

[quote=""rockygirl""]Finally starting this series at the request of a student who wants to read it with me. Not looking forward to it.

Is it any good? Or is it just popular?[/quote]

I loved them on the whole and especially book 1. They're well written page turners IMO. I'd give them 5 stars overall.
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Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
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Post by rockygirl » Tue April 23rd, 2013, 10:30 pm

Thanks for the input!
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Post by rockygirl » Mon May 6th, 2013, 12:42 am

I wasn't crazy about the series. I thought it put too low a value on human life. That being said, I agree that the books are page-turners.
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Post by Nefret » Fri June 21st, 2013, 7:20 am

Finally got around to getting this series. It keeps getting recommended to me.
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Post by Vanessa » Sat February 15th, 2014, 3:05 pm

I'm about to start the first one of this series! I'm not big into YA fiction but am giving this a go. I enjoyed the Twilight books which I've read - not read all of them yet - so hopefully I will enjoy The Hunger a Games.
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Post by red805 » Mon February 17th, 2014, 9:41 pm

[quote=""Vanessa""]I'm about to start the first one of this series! I'm not big into YA fiction but am giving this a go. I enjoyed the Twilight books which I've read - not read all of them yet - so hopefully I will enjoy The Hunger a Games.[/quote]

Funny you resurrected this thread Vanessa. I just met with one of my clients Saturday who was on the lighting crew for the second movie. I was telling him how much I liked the movies - especially the second one. I also tore through the books. I think the film adaptions have been among the best I've seen. I'm looking forward to the third film. I would love to see Suzanne Collins write an adult book series too.
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Post by Vanessa » Tue February 18th, 2014, 9:58 pm

Just finished the first book and found it very much a page turner. Entertaining stuff and quite dark, too. I haven't seen the film but can imagine its action packed and well worth the watch.

A sort of gladiators meets Lara Croft meets computer games!
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