Comments on: Post-Apocalyptic Young Adult Novel The Hunger Games Comes to the Big Screen

By: j

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:32:11 +0000

never mind, SERIOUSLY

By: j

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:15:12 +0000

some of this book doesnt make sense to me. if the dictatorship is going to go that far, as to send 12 year olds to kill eachother, then i feel like ppl would protest like crazy and overthrow the dictatorship. maybe if they shoot at ppl who start protesting in the street, it would scare ppl into not rallying against the capitol. but it feels like collins just wanted to write about a girl surviving in these games but couldnt think up a better reason for the games existing. its like a bunch of loose ends. i dont get it at all and it was really hard for me to keep reading because it was so frustrating to me, trying to figure out why the games exist. it also seems like she borrowed a bunch of stuff from other books. like battle royale as it said in the blog. the way the 16 year old girl yells at her mother seems really unrealistic, even if the mom is depressed. what mother wouldn’t speak up after their teen is screaming at them? theres a bunch of other stuff in this book that just make me go “what?!” and its really distracting and takes away from enjoying the book. i think i had really high hopes for this book given how ppl were praising it and comparing it to the giver, which i think is innacurate. im not a writer but i read a lot and collins’ writing style seems like she needs more practice. where as lowry’s style reads more like someone whos been writng for a long time. maybe its the plot thats causing everyone to rave about this book. or maybe because of meyers recomendation. this book is just very confusing, its not the best writing so i dont get all the fuss over it. just my opinion.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:59:50 +0000

I can’t say I particularly enjoyed the Hunger Games. I read the first one and it was okay but hen I couldn’t wait for the second one to be over with. Catching Fire seemed to be more about the love triangle between Petta, Katniss and Gale than anything else, despite the fact that Katniss was sent back to the Games. Also, it’s the fact that Katniss never seems to have a solid opinion about something. She wants to be with Peeta, then with Gale but then she always seems to jump back to not having any children or getting married.
Also, I didn’t find that the starvation in District Twelve was well presented. Gale and Katniss would go hunt, catch animals and find vegetables, then get back to the district and exchange most of their vegetables for spices. This doesn’t seem to be the normal behavior of people who claim to be starving, they wouldn’t take the spices, they’d keep the food.
Throughout the Games, in both the second and first book, I couldn’t really feel the emotion that should have been put into it. I understand the need for survival and the compitition but I couldn’t place myself in these people’s shoes, or manage to feel too concerned when one died. Everything seemed to be about Katniss surviving and the others were like extras that didn’t matter.
I’m really sorry to be the first to negatively review The Hunger Games and I’m also sorry if anyone thinks this is harsh. It’s my opinion. The books weren’t bad, but neither were they overly good.

By: icetruckkiller

icetruckkiller — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:17:42 +0000

Peeta: Sterling Knight
Prim: Elle Fanning
Foxface: HAYLEY WILLIAMS
Mrs.Everdeen: COURTNEY YATES

By: Carla

Carla — Sat, 22 May 2010 05:24:57 +0000

This book is incredible! The movie better be amazing too

By: Cooper

Cooper — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:12:15 +0000

Have read. I think the book is also to show how war and crazy stuff affect youth and teens, because everyone focus’s on how stuff like that affects adults. P.S. Devin Science you are retarded.

By: Tanvi

Tanvi — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:50:12 +0000

Hunger Games aren’t merely just your everyday Young Adult fiction – it’s, as is aptly put in the comments following the first one, about survival.
Collins had said she derived the idea from Minotaur’s legend, like how people were thrust in the maze and had to survive.
She’s envisioned a future which – we would like to believe – isn’t going to actually happen. However, the concept is fresh and involves an actual plot instead of just a bunch of vampires running amok [I am a Twilight, Vampire Diaries, Vampire Chronicles fan but even I've had enough ]

By: Taylor Cook

Taylor Cook — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:47:53 +0000

The hunger games and Catching Fire r now my FAVORITE books of all time i realy really really want to know whos playing who in the movies there is a 70% chance that peeta mellark will be played by jackson rathbone YUCK no way for one hes soposse to be gorgeous! and blonde headed! and a good actor not one that just stares at thinks please dont be him!!!

By: Bensonellie

Bensonellie — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:58:15 +0000

Hands down, the best young actress to play Katniss (the others mentioned here are too old to play 14)is AnnaSophia Robb. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1455681/
Bridge to Tarabithia and Race to Witch Mountain show that she is quite able to portray the strength of character necessary.

By: inlovewithPeetaMellark

inlovewithPeetaMellark — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:33:30 +0000

okay, these were honestly the best books i have ever read! People won’t read it cuz they think it will be to gory or whatever but they ae really good and actually not that gory! like when she describes a kill she does it bluntly bnot to make you picture the image and be terrified.and they have a better love triangle than stupid twilight! I really didn’t like twilight but i LOVED THG!!!!!!!! everybody should read it!! they are so good!!!!

By: ~India

~India — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:16:44 +0000

The Hunger Games is a book for all audiences, except for maybe very young children. It is an epic thriller, and Cathching Fire is just as good. =)
Basically it’s a love story, but not your typical one, and there is much much more action than romance. Also, the series was popular before the whole Stephanie Meyers thing. Stephen King & John Green & Rick Riordan all gave it raving views as well. According to Stephen King, Suzanne Collins, unlike other popular authors, can actually write.

By: ~Sydney

~Sydney — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:16:46 +0000

To answer Deven Science’s question:

the capitol, or the people in charge, send the children because they want to make a point. Basically, ‘look how we take your children and sacrifice them, and there’s nothing you can do about it.’

They are doing it because there was a revolt against them, and this is their way of punishing the districts. Give the book a chance, that’s not all what the book is about. ;D