The Hunger Games Series
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Re: The Hunger Games Series
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I think I mentioned this in an earlier forum post somewhere but actually I saw the movie first. I kept hearing about this book, The Hunger Games, and thought it would be very childish YA drivel, but it did manage to draw my attention. Then, one day while going through videos at the local library I saw the DVD (talk about "being late to the party"!) and I picked it up. I figured if I didn't like it, which I honestly thought I wouldn't, at least I wouldn't be spending a lot of time reading. I could just turn off the video after a few minutes and forget about it. To my utter surprise I really got into the movie and totally enjoyed it.
Then a huge coincidence occurred. When I returned the movie, lo and behold, sitting on the For Sale table at the library was a mint copy of the book for a half dollar. Well, to make a long story short I GRABBED IT!!! *LOL* When I got home I started reading and couldn't put it down even though I already knew the story - it was SO well written!
Personally I think the movie captured the book very well and in fact I liked the mutt dog attack at the end WAY better than the reincarnation of the dead tributes as werewolves in the book which just didn't work for me. We are meant to sympathize with the dead tributes, and then they come back like zombies? No way.
All three books were great and so were the movies, but the first was by far the best in my opinion.
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The soundtracks are awesome too.
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I guess that's what happens when directors try to cram an event that takes several days into a film 2 and a half hours long.
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Luckily the main actress (Jennifer Lawrence) has exceptionally described my Katniss well.
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