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To help keep close with the teenaged daughter, I read books she does on occasion. I (barely) read the Twilight series with her and saw all the movies with her. Now I read the Hunger Games Trilogy and will watch the movies with her too.
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I thought the movie was rather well done given the plot line.
I had a problem with the random selection of boys and girls ages 12-18 in a Battle Royale. Sorry, this can't be very sporting matching 12 year girls against 18 year old males but I guess that's part of emphasizing how sick this dystopia is..
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"On the other hand, most teenage girls are just braindead skanks"...
High opinion you have of young girls. Let me guess...They wont go out with you??
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Many of your questions aren't answered until the end of the third book.
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Movie captured the essence of the book pretty good. I'd recommend it if your daughter had read the books to take her to see it.
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I'm tempted see it even though I don't have a daughter and I'm not a teen. Good idea?
A couple guys "Outside" saw it and enjoyed it. You know only the worst sort frequent that site.
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than story or action centered? Curious.
Katniss, the heroine of The Hunger Games is as different as night and day from Twilight's Bella. Katniss is skilled and very driven all while being quite selfless, risking her life for others.
Also the setting is far different. Hunger Games is set in a bad future where the world was destroyed by war and just, perhaps, a million in the US survived but live in a noble-surf type political system. Mixed in with this backwards society is some very high technology. Makes things interesting.
So, this is an action based story.
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The similarities are obvious. I'm surprised no one has compared the two movies.
Jack
I haven't seen either but intend to see Battle Royale soon now that it is out on dvd.
I'm guessing many of the reviewers haven't seen it. Its been out on DVD, now its out on Blu-ray.
Jack
But after reading about it I may get it.
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There will be FOURTEEN theaters showing this movie at midnight at the megaplex. We got IMAX tickets. She is the first in line. Yes, we have no life.
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...how do they compare with say, Lee Child or something else popular you've read lately?
Norwegian crime writer. Just discovered him a couple of months ago. Reading The Snowman now and enjoying it. Recommended.
...by Henning Mankell which was recommended, but no Nesbo yet.
Thanks for the reminder.
Quite interesting, for a teen book, the fact that it is set in a dystopian world provided some interest. The first book was good, the second, fair, the third, better than the second, not as good as the first.
The author tortures the heroes to an extreme. By the end of the series, when Katniss FINALLY chooses her man, the both of them are mere shells of themselves, starved, scarred, emotionally battered, it was sort of sickening.
At present I am in my FINAL reading of the Wheel Of Time Series.
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In the middle of Book 3. Really liked Books 1 and 2. Keep you posted.
The second read is quite enjoyable. The books are so massive you simply cannot remember everything so you can relive each scene almost like the first time. Min's viewings are very interesting when you re-read them because you will know what they mean.
As for the books themselves, books one through four are great. However, books six through ten get slower and slower. More and more plot, descriptions, characters, clothes etc. Book ten, Crossroads of Twilight, is a real snoozer. It simply rehashes the amazing event of book nine, Winter's Heart, from different points of view. The author got a lot of heat for it and book eleven, Knife of Dreams, is far better. It has some "spinning Sadin" scenes that will blow your mind. Then the author died, but left copious notes so Brandon Sanderson is writing the final three books. He wrote two with the final, FOURTEENTH book due January 2013.
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...the last one is yet to be published (in 2013?).....
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