{"id":2184,"date":"2010-10-15T16:24:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T21:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2010-10-15T16:24:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T21:24:19","slug":"book-report-friday-the-hunger-games-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/book-report-friday-the-hunger-games-trilogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report Friday: The Hunger Games Trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suggesting that people read the Hunger GamesTrilogy<\/a>\"\" feels a little bit like suggesting that they go out and read Harry Potter. And not just because they’re both, technically, books written for children. Chances are, if you were going to read the Hunger Games, you’d probably have read them by now.\u00a0But, I want to talk about the Hunger Games, so I’m going to pretend that a bazillion bloggers haven’t already said “OMG you have to read Hunger Games!! LOL!”\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Apparently, I’m on a dystopian society kick<\/a>. Bonus points for fucked up things happening to adolescents. I’m not entirely sure what this says about me. I’m going to go ahead and guess that it rhymes with “Mucked Cup.”<\/p>\n

The Hunger Games is a classic story about an elite society repressing everyone else. The elites live in the Capital and everyone else lives in poor cities where they are expected to grow the elites’ vegetables, build their gadgets and (more than) occasionally starve to death. It becomes apparent that these are the remains of American society. Nuclear bombs are alluded to. Throw in a Battle Royale<\/a> style fight to the death and you have the makings of some serious drama.<\/p>\n

The best part of the Hunger Games is Suzanne’s Collins’ ability to create a believable world and then populate it with characters that you can easily care about. One of the most enjoyable aspects of reading is being transported somewhere else (even if it’s to a place where they make their children fight to the death), somewhere very different from your regular life. There are just enough touches of fantasy to counteract the horror that is being perpetrated on these poor kids.<\/p>\n

And, believe you me, some of it is pretty horrific. But, it’s never over the top and it’s never gratuitous. It’s just enough to let you know that there is some Fucked Up Shit\u2122\u00a0going on.<\/p>\n

The entire time I was reading these books, I was constantly stopping and thinking to myself, “What would I<\/em> do in this situation?” Volunteer for the Hunger Games to save my sister? That one’s a no-brainer. (Yes, sisters, I am rather fond of you). Take out anyone who is actively trying to kill me? That’s a little trickier, but I do<\/em> have a working survival instinct- I suspect I know the answer to that one. But what about the other participants in the arena? The ones who have no more desire than I do to be actively participating? Collins sets things up in a way that our heroine never really has to face that particular question, but I sure as hell thought about it.<\/p>\n

These books are a quick read that will draw you in, make you think and will probably make you appreciate your own life just a little bit more. I devoured them in a weekend and it was a weekend well spent. I would definitely recommend them.<\/p>\n

Let’s just pretend that everyone on the internets hasn’t said that already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Suggesting that people read the Hunger GamesTrilogy feels a little bit like suggesting that they go out and read Harry Potter. And not just because they’re both, technically, books written…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report-friday","category-geeky-girl"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-ze","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}