The Hunger Games

[Izuno]

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.

[Skjalg]

cool, i'll check that out.

[Nysuatro]

Added on list*

[Ginger Lord]

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

[Buddy]

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

[ShockaPop]

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).

[Izuno]

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.

[madgernader]

Sounds like battle royale (also a book)

[Izuno]

Sounds like battle royale (also a book)

Yes! Thank you. I heard about something like that but forgot what it was called. See, everything is derivative now!

[syver]

read it ...and liked it!

been a while since i've read fiction, so it was nice to have some change. kept me interested from the very beginning

[Izuno]

btw the movie comes out today...

[Nysuatro]

Yeah, i am going to see it next week!

[Froyok]

The movie is out in my town. I hesitate to go to see it.

The critics are good, but the trailers...

[Izuno]

I'm seeing it this weekend. $30 for two movie tix. Better be damn good...

[Pampers]

just saw it, i liked it