If you haven't read the Hunger Games Trilogy.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

Please do. The three books tell a story so profound and moving, I nearly stopped reading after the first one because the imagery was so incredibly vivid and...disturbing.
There is a movie coming out in May, and it looks amazing.
If you have read the books, what did you think?

[ZombieHorde]

1. Fantasy? Sci-fi? Horror? Comedy?

What kind of books are they?

[getting old in mke]

2. YA Dystopian fiction (nt)

[Skinner]

3. Page-turners.

I couldn't put them down.

[LearnedHand]

4. Best books I've read in years!

read the first one straight through the night. Didn't sleep for a week after I finished the series. Read the trilogy three times last year. These are must-read books.

[backtoblue]

5. Loved them!

I love dystopian-themed books and couldn't put these books down. The story was very visually stimulating and (you're right!)..disturbing.

[seabeyond]

6. i bought it for son this christmas. he had read. niece took it home to read. 3 others are waiting

for their turn to read. nice finished and immediately went out to buy the other two.

maybe i ought to read, lol

i generally dont like young adult.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

7. Help me out. If you liked _________________, you'll love Hunger Games

I've been thinking about reading these books, even moreso with all the recent GD discussion. But what are the books like? What other works do they resemble, in this way or that?

thanks.

[backtoblue]

8. The Running Man, perhaps.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

12. I'm honestly not sure.

I've not read anything like them before.

[SheilaT]

9. It is an amazing trilogy.

I'm actually surprised it got published as YA, given how very dark it is. Like others here, I also like dystopian fiction, so it was a good match for me.

I'm not sure if I can say if you liked some other specific book you'll like this one. Just pick up a copy and read the first chapter or two. If it doesn't grab you, read something else.

I can hardly wait for the movies.

[NEOhiodemocrat]

10. I read the trilogy

Liked it so much I bought it for my 14 year old grand daughter for Christmas. It is a pretty easy read, but disturbing and very thought provoking. I wanted her to experience the concept of how government can act in ways that are very wrong and the citizens must resist and fight for what is right. I recommend it to anyone.

[knitter4democracy]

11. It went through the alternative high school I was in last year like wildfire.

So, several of us teachers read it, and it became something we'd all talk about for weeks. Some of our most reluctant readers would actually fight over the few copies of the second and third books, even!

It's an amazing series, though I'm leery of the movie. I just can't see how they'll do justice to the book.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

13. Watch the Trailer...

It honestly looks good. Although, I thought of Katniss as a young Natalie Portman throughout the book.

[knitter4democracy]

15. It doesn't look at all like what I had in my head.

*sadpanda*

[ohheckyeah]

14. I just finished the trilogy

last week and I loved the books. I read all three in a week's time.

I'm now loaning them to my brother to read on his Kindle. I wish you could loan books more than once on Kindle.

I think the books are just incredibly well written but found myself a little depressed at the end.

[LARED]

16. I just finished the trilogy last week.

I bought the first book sort of on a lark not knowing much about the story. Half way through the book I bought the other two in the series becasue I was hooked (kindle make buying books soooo easy, I'm going to go broke)

Best read (in this genre) in many years for me. I could not put them down.

[justiceischeap]

17. I really liked the trilogy, think I read them all over a weekend

However, I didn't like how it ended but that didn't take away from my enjoyment of the trilogy.

Excited for the movie.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

18. What didn't you like about it?

Were you on team Gale?

[justiceischeap]

19. I was on team Katniss!

I hate, hate, hate, oh and hate, how every friggin' single book these days seems to have romance in them. I am anti-romance. Besides that, I thought it felt a bit rushed.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

20. I didn't think it felt rushed. (spoilerish)

And I think the romance was kind of an after thought, and if left up to Katniss would never have happened. Peeta had to kind of wear her down, once he was brought back from the hijacking.
How did you like what she did to Coin? Were you shocked? I thought it was BRILLIANT and it was the only way she was going to live. Especially after what happened to her sister.

[justiceischeap]

21. Then entire trilogy was brilliant... my memory, not so much! :)

I'm going to have to reread the series. It's been about 6 months or more since I completed it.

I read, a lot. I've probably read close to 100 books since reading Mockingjay -- I average about a book a day. So, the details of the series aren't real clear to me. I just know that it was brilliant and one of the best series I've read in some time... I liked it much better than Potter but of course, that's almost like comparing apples to oranges. I think why the end/epilogue disappointed me a bit is that Katniss is SUCH a strong female character and then to have her, as you said, worn down by Peeta just didn't seem true to her character but I guess one could argue that it's easy to wear down someone so exhausted (both mentally and physically).

[YellowRubberDuckie]

22. Reread them then send me a private message...(still spoilerish)

...and we'll talk about it. =) I think it is totally in her character to get worn down by Peeta. He loved her and she wanted someone to love her. She just wasn't sure exactly sure who she wanted to love her. And she literally changed her world. Once that happened, all bets were off.
Duckie

[justiceischeap]

23. I will reread and PM

I currently working my way through 11/22/63. I usually really like Stephen King novels but this one is taking me a bit to get through.

[Kablooie]

24. I loved them except felt a little let down at the ending.

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At the ending I felt that Katniss remained in denial of who she really was. It felt to me that her emotional arc was never really concluded and was left hanging so was less satisfying than I would have wished.

I also became angry at the writer when her sister was killed. Prim was the foundation under Katniss and when she died I felt a vacuum that was never filled. I thought Prim should have been close to dying or thought to be dead but have some way to participate in the aftermath of the story.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

25. Totally agree

I am a very emotional person and I don't keep them inside. I screamed when Prim was suddenly gone, and my husband never knows what to do with me when I get that into a book.
Honestly, I don't know how my sanity kept through the Harry Potter series, and then I read these and they were even worse for me! This story wrung me out.