HUNGER GAMES Thread - Page 3

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Originally Posted by redhen 

I just finished book one.. it was awesome!
Is it worth it to buy the other ones? How many are in the series?

There are 3 in the series and you should buy the others.

I'm sorry, I was bored and this is the result. It may contain spoilers or hint some spoilers, so if you haven't finished Mockingjay you probobly shouldn't read it. I like to rant and i am very proud of this rambling about the epilogue. Here we go:

This series has by far the best epilogue in the history of epilogues. It sums up the series, puts life into perspective and shows that life does go on, even if there is no happily ever after. Even the use of Rue's lullaby shows that you can't forget. You will never forget. You can only make the best out of life and try to be happy. Even living in district twelve shows that you want to hang on to those memories, both happy and sad. You want to remember Prim, and Gale, and your times in the woods, or with lady. You want to remember hunting and the times before the games. You want to remember who you were then. But you also want to remember who you are now, after the games, after the revolution. After everything changed. After you changed. Who you are now depends on who you were, how you changed and what you made of the change. This epilogue showed that perfectly. The series ended in such a way that you know it can't go on. Not the way you felt. Any continuation of it would be only half complete, a reflection on a rippled pond, a copy of the original beauty. This really is a beautiful way to end such a momentous series that changed so many people.

Well I read the 1st book and liked it, read the inside cover of the 2nd one's hard cover.. and decide I really don't want to read it.

I wonder if they touch base on the Muttations and the fact they may have been the actual dead tributes.

Also glad Collins didn't decide to write about the main characters, their children and the grandkids..

Which has been a down fall of many a great sci-fi author. Piers Anthony did this.

I might go see the movie, but again.. parts of the book just scream at me with the inconsistenciesfor instance in the beginning when Katniss says in her internal dialog that if she were caught with the bow, she would be killed...

So what does the author have her do.. show off to authorities in the Capitol, just how well she can use it..

What is the story she give.. dear daddy used it to play the fiddle?

AND having tributes that are just 12 yrs old, DIE ALOT...

And its a Scholastic book... do you really want your child to read about how other children are taken and then forced to kill or be

killed??!!

WOW.. 0.o

From what I saw at the end of book one ( am part way through book 2) it was obvious that muttations where the dead tributes.  It is just another demonstration of power over the tributes that even in death they are treated with contempt.  As for the basis of the book we are so close to it to be comfortable really if a tv producer could get a couple of tv reality people to kill someone without being charged they would do it and people would watch.  Death on tv and child abuse are about the only taboos that reality shows haven't broken and they would if they could get away with it.

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Originally Posted by WIChookchick 

Well I read the 1st book and liked it, read the inside cover of the 2nd one's hard cover.. and decide I really don't want to read it.

I wonder if they touch base on the Muttations and the fact they may have been the actual dead tributes.

Also glad Collins didn't decide to write about the main characters, their children and the grandkids..

Which has been a down fall of many a great sci-fi author. Piers Anthony did this.

I might go see the movie, but again.. parts of the book just scream at me with the inconsistenciesfor instance in the beginning when Katniss says in her internal dialog that if she were caught with the bow, she would be killed...

So what does the author have her do.. show off to authorities in the Capitol, just how well she can use it..

What is the story she give.. dear daddy used it to play the fiddle?

AND having tributes that are just 12 yrs old, DIE ALOT...

And its a Scholastic book... do you really want your child to read about how other children are taken and then forced to kill or be

killed??!!

WOW.. 0.o

Well, first off, if Katniss was caught with her bow in the DISTRICTS she could be killed, and in the arena they had no proof that she actually had hunted before. If you read Catching fire, you would know this and you would find out about the mutts. But if you read Catching Fire i would REAAAAAAAAAAAAALLY suggest having Mockingjay in hand the instant you finish it. And when you finish Mockingjay you better  have a full box of tissues within reach.

Secondly, her dad could sing, he didn't play any instruments. the story she told was about getting her sister her goat.

Thirdly, the point of the twelve year olds getting killed is just another way of the Capitol to say, we take your children and kill them. You better not rebel again.

And really, I'm ELEVEN and I  started reading the books two years ago. I love them and really don't think they're that bad. All my friends have read them and don't have a problem with them, either.

And you shouldn't go around saying that a book is terrible if you only read the first book. The rest of the series adds on the what the first book was saying.