The Hunger Games

    Ok...before you pull up your flamethrowers hear me out. My wife read this book "The Hunger Games" and said it was the best novel she's read in years and that I would love it. I've mainly only been hearing about it from women so I thought it was a chick book like the Twilight books which I never read and was totally bored by the movies when we rented one.

    HOLY FUCKING SHIT I WAS WRONG. The Hunger Games is nothing like crappy Twilight.

    Yes, the main character is a teenage girl but the raw brutality in this book and direct, unpretentious writing style is amazing. It's almost like reading Michael Creighton (may he r.i.p....my favorite author of all time).

    Anyway...The Hunger Games has a romance angle in it but it's soooooooo much more about the pseudo post apocolyptic and very sadistic society that puts 24 teenagers into a giant arena in a battle to the death. The survivalist element reminds me of STALKER in a way (just no mutants and exclusion zones and shit). I have never been this unexpectedly floored by a book I just assumed was another trash chick novel. It's nothing at all like that.

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    Anyone else come in here for news on They Hunger and were dissapointed?

    Totally man! I thought there was just typo in thread title. Oh well..

    Also, if comparing book to Twilight.. even saying it's not anything like it, kind makes it sound the book actually shares something with Twilight series, which is way out of my interests on books (just an on-topic discussion).

    Huh...if I were posting about They Hunger, one of my favorite SP HL mods ever, I would have posted about it in Game Discussion. Sorry if you felt misled.

    Regarding The Hunger Games, I am now reading book 2 of the trilogy ("Catching Fire") and am loving it. The fist book (uh, "The Hunger Games") is going to be a movie coming out in March and I'm predicting an epic box office tally. And that's whether it's great or is just so-so given how much buzz I'm sensing (obviously not on Mapcore).

    I keep coming back to the concept of 24 teenagers forcibly put into a deathmatch by a sadistic authoritarian government. Very Orwellian. Not entirely original i'm told but just so well written and blunt.

    Went to see it last night. Pretty uninspiring overall. Total washed down lowest common denominator "summer" blockbuster production. Check your brains out before going in. Half assed plot, no real underlying message/political stance; the fights were pretty good as they at least went for brawls/survival fights over choreographed 15 minutes long unbelievable sequences.

    Everything this movie does, Battle Royale does best. And please, the cast of good looking teenagers in every movie to please the "twilight" demographic needs to go.

    We were in the theater for our 2:55 pm showing...and at 2:50 the lights flicker, then the emergency lights came on. A staffer from the theater came in and told us the entire block had lost power due to the rather mild rainstorm in our region. Thus, I wasn't able to see the movie today after all that.

    So we are seeing it this Wednesday...guess I'll find out then if I like it or not.

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