Title: The Hunger Games
Author: Suzanne Collins
My Rating: 5 stars
Genre: Young Adult; Romance; Dystopia.
ISBN: 9781407109367
Published: January, 2009
Publisher: Scholastic
Pages: 454
Author: Suzanne Collins
My Rating: 5 stars
Genre: Young Adult; Romance; Dystopia.
ISBN: 9781407109367
Published: January, 2009
Publisher: Scholastic
Pages: 454
“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
The first thing that I feel obliged to say is: "Suzanne Collins, you ARE a freaking genius!"I apologize for my manners, but there's no other way to describe how smart and well done this story was written and how smart the author was writting these books. I am speechless (again I know, I know... I'm speechless a lot of times, but I can't help it).
Basically I was not sure if I should read this book... If I started reading this one then I would need to read the "Catching Fire" and "The Mockingjay" and I was not really sure if I was capable of such a thing because if I did not like the first book would be at least painful to read the rest of the serie.
So... assuming that I'm stupid, I watched the movie first (again), and then I thought that the movie was fantastic and I liked it very very much... and, once again, when I started reading the book I felt really disapointed with the movie... they cut half the story in it! And that was the plan okay? The plan was: "Now you'll watch the movie, if you like it you'll go to the IMDb and then you give to it ten stars... When you finish you'll read the book and then you'll love the book and you'll think that the movie was a disastrous and you'll feel dispointed about it but you'll not change the score of the movie, you'll just give to the book five stars!" - basically the plan was something like everyone being happy at the same time without small scores.
“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
The story of the book is about a game.
Here people live in a fairly advanced year to our, in the future, but the life is not getting better for some of them. This happens after the destruction of North America.
There are 12 Districts, like 12 small villages where people are starving and have no life conditions; then there is the city of the rich people - Panem.
Every year there's a game named "The Hunger Games" where one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 from each district are selected randomly, by the Capitol, and forced to participate in this game. This is like a TV show.
The participants are called "tributes". They must fight to death in front of a lot of hidden cameras, in a outdoor arena controlled by the Capitol. Only one remains.
Supposedly the tributes are chosen through a kind of lottery, but this year, for the first time in the District 12, there's a volunteer - Katniss Everdeen. Katniss volunteered herself to take the place of her 12 years old sister - Prim.
Then there's another paper from the "lottery machine", this is the time for the boys, and the name is Peeta Mellark.
The first thing that I feel obliged to say is: "Suzanne Collins, you ARE a freaking genius!"I apologize for my manners, but there's no other way to describe how smart and well done this story was written and how smart the author was writting these books. I am speechless (again I know, I know... I'm speechless a lot of times, but I can't help it).
Basically I was not sure if I should read this book... If I started reading this one then I would need to read the "Catching Fire" and "The Mockingjay" and I was not really sure if I was capable of such a thing because if I did not like the first book would be at least painful to read the rest of the serie.
So... assuming that I'm stupid, I watched the movie first (again), and then I thought that the movie was fantastic and I liked it very very much... and, once again, when I started reading the book I felt really disapointed with the movie... they cut half the story in it! And that was the plan okay? The plan was: "Now you'll watch the movie, if you like it you'll go to the IMDb and then you give to it ten stars... When you finish you'll read the book and then you'll love the book and you'll think that the movie was a disastrous and you'll feel dispointed about it but you'll not change the score of the movie, you'll just give to the book five stars!" - basically the plan was something like everyone being happy at the same time without small scores.
“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
The story of the book is about a game.
Here people live in a fairly advanced year to our, in the future, but the life is not getting better for some of them. This happens after the destruction of North America.
There are 12 Districts, like 12 small villages where people are starving and have no life conditions; then there is the city of the rich people - Panem.
Every year there's a game named "The Hunger Games" where one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 from each district are selected randomly, by the Capitol, and forced to participate in this game. This is like a TV show.
The participants are called "tributes". They must fight to death in front of a lot of hidden cameras, in a outdoor arena controlled by the Capitol. Only one remains.
Supposedly the tributes are chosen through a kind of lottery, but this year, for the first time in the District 12, there's a volunteer - Katniss Everdeen. Katniss volunteered herself to take the place of her 12 years old sister - Prim.
Then there's another paper from the "lottery machine", this is the time for the boys, and the name is Peeta Mellark.