Does anyone here LOVE the Hunger Games like me? IT'S JUST SO AMAZING. I really love the trailer that came out yesterday too! You catch a glimpse of her fire dress, sadly not her jeweled dress, her arena outfit and more! AHHHHH I LOVE IT. Take a look.

To those who don't know what I'm talking about read the books! You won't regret it. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fye5Nwe4qeI

Anyone else here a fanatic?!

My girl friend wanted me to read them, so I read the books and they are pretty good :foodndrink:


Edit: looks like the movie will stick to the book :celebration:

I hate when movie versions of a book come out and the movie is nothing like the book. Just like whats going to happen to World War Z :sadvaultboy:

My girlfriend wanted me to read them. I made her watch Battle Royale instead, and I think it got the point across.

I read all of them. Liked the first one. Then I stepped back and took a look at the characters and other things:
Aside from all of that, better than most modern novels for Middle/High School.

Read the TVTropes YMMV page on it, as they are better writers than I and can clarify better.

I enjoyed the books, looking forward to the movie.

Never bothered to read them, but from hearing people talk about them and seeing a summary or two, it really does sound like a lame version of Battle Royale written for teenage girls.

I just finished reading the first book about a month ago, I loved it. Definitely looking forward to the movie, the trailer seems to stick to the book, hope the actual movie sticks close. I'll have to start the second book sometime soon.

I read the first and second book and loved them. Third one Im currently reading but not so sure what to think of it yet,

The protagonist being Katniss.

1. Peeta was shy as to tell Katniss he loved her. She lived in one half of the town in the Seam and he lived in another, for the upper class in District 12. They never even spoke to each other aside from when he saved her life by giving her bread. Hence him being the Boy with the Bread.

2. Katniss grew to love Peeta. At first she didn't realize Peeta truly loved Katniss during the game, she did it for the cameras. She eventually falls in love with him as he grows on her, he is the boy with the bread, the one who saved her life, the one she's always loved but never realized it. Plus he didn't make her go through anything, he pretended to be bad to protect her, he never hurt her she just didn't know why he teamed up with the Careers.

3. The techies in the second book DID use their knowledge to escape. The destroyed a forcefield using a lighting strike and a copper wire.

4. They needed to TAKE District 2 because it was the headquarters of the Capitol's army of Peacekeepers. They destroyed the Nut and crippled the Capitol's army. They didn't need weapons, they had everything they needed in District 13, it wasn't a raid. It was a taking.

5. Katniss at first didn't want to have kids at the beginning of the series because she didn't want them to grow up in fear of being put in the Games. At the end of the series there IS no more Hunger Games, letting her to have children as she pleased.

6. Katniss raised her kids in the NEW District 12. It was rebuilt, and they moved back in.

7. I don't know what that question is.

8. The Government was bad BECAUSE of the obvious. They forced the Districts to slave away to the needs of the Capitol. Everything built by the Districts went primarily to the Capitol. The new government isn't any better because they have a NEW Hunger Games featuring Capitol children. They are teaching the same lesson. But they provide freedom. It's one of the things in the book that don't end as good as expected, on purpose.

Oh, and I knew her name, it was just escaping me at the time of the post.

1. In the book it's obvious that Peeta felt that he was going to die. They didn't have a big plan to escape until RIGHT when they pretended to swallow the berries. He was sent to the games, which was near certain death. It's a good a time as any to proclaim your love for someone. And if that isn't reason enough, Haymitch had Peeta act as if they loved each other to get attention from Sponsors and the Capitol itself. Peeta already DID love her, so went along.

2. In the book Katniss risks her life to save his. She is stuck because Peeta won't let her save him, leaving him to die from his blood poison. She gets a gift from Haymitch of a sedative to put him to sleep so she can sneak off into the Feast at the Cornucopia so she can get her bag with something she 'desperately needs' marked with a number 12. She knows the Feast would be a bloodbath like in the beginning, she even gets attacked by Clove (I think) trying to get that antipoison. (Which was in the bag.)

3. In the second Games (really the 75th, 3rd Quarter Quell) the previous victors have to fight to the death. Their plan was just to use the lightning strike and coil to destroy the forcefield, get their transport and flee because it was sure that Katniss was going to die in the games and she had become the symbol of the rebellion - critical to taking Panem. They only knew the arena was like a giant clock, it took them a long time to figure out the order of the clock so they needed to use themselves to test it. It's why they got so hurt. They had to figure out the timing of the lightning strike and didn't know the forcefields would hurt you, a lot of new variables they didn't key in.

7. Katniss knew that this new president was power hungry. They worked together and their future leader wanted to imprison Katniss if she became a threat. She forced Katniss to help her and she just knew Panem would not survive with her as leader. She kills her for the greater good.

8. The Capitol's government over Panem was a dictatorship, non-negotiable they reigned total control with no questions. District 13 insinuated rebellion and was destroyed immediately. The Hunger Games were a result and used to keep the other Districts from rebellion, to show that they were in charge and they served the Capitol.