The Hunger Games Series

The Josh · Mar 24, 2012

With the movie coming out thought it would be cool to have a thread where folks can talk about the books.

Darth Snoopy · Mar 24, 2012

Cool!

I'm only on chapter one of Catching Fire.

carbo-fation · Mar 24, 2012

Just got the trilogy box set from amazon. Will start reading book 1 today and see what all the fuss is about.

The Josh · Mar 24, 2012

Darth Snoopy said:
Cool!

I'm only on chapter one of Catching Fire.

Have you read it before snoop? Wait until you get to chapter 14 if you haven't it gets really good.

Darth Snoopy · Mar 24, 2012

The Josh said:
Have you read it before snoop? Wait until you get to chapter 14 if you haven't it gets really good.

I started to read it a couple of times but always got side-tracked. :gah:

But now I'm good to go.

The Josh · Mar 24, 2012

Got ya. Looking forward to seeing what you think when you get further in.

Darth Madden · Mar 24, 2012

My wife gave me the first one about a year ago and said "you might like this its kind of running man with kids." A week later I was done with all 3 books. I am NOT a big reader at all but these just got me hooked.

The Josh · Mar 24, 2012

I had several friends who really urged me to read the books when I said I wanted to see the movie, but hadn't read the series yet. They were right in that I really like where things are going and am glad I took their advice to get started.

Damien · Mar 24, 2012

Darth Snoopy said:
I started to read it a couple of times but always got side-tracked.

But now I'm good to go.

yeah,those ice cream trucks are hard to resist
:nana:

ToastedFred · Mar 25, 2012

I've never really been a fan of reading, but due to the overwhelming responses I've heard from both the film and book I decided to give this a read.

Absolutely brilliant so far, I keep going back to read another chapter in any free time I have. I'm about to read Chapter 9 of the first book, and I'm excited...never felt this way about a book before! :panic:

BuffyGirl · Mar 25, 2012

I am a bit behind as I'm only heading on to chapter 5 of the first book. But I am enjoying it so far.

Xaryen · Mar 25, 2012

So ***SPOILERS*** for those who have not yet seen/read The Hunger Games, but here are some of my thoughts on the movie:

Spoiler:

Well, movie adaptations will never be as good as the book lol. I'd probably have to see it again to appreciate it more and not be so analytical as the first time. I would've liked to see more violence/graphicness during the Games, but they had to keep it PG-13. Blah. Like, I think making Katniss shoot the District 1 tribute in the abdomen as opposed to his neck takes away from her badass-ness. Also, They kinda made the games seem like a walk in the park, don't you think? Just didn't look like Katniss had much of a struggle. I think the pacing was off. And Peeta's leg... um, that shouldn't have been healed so easily. And he clearly didn't lose it (the leg). I was annoyed they changed the way Katniss got the Mockingjay pin. But most of all I think, as I suspected before seeing the movie, that my biggest issue with the movie was Haymitch. He was just not drunk enough for me. Also, I see him being older. I know that he can't be more than like 40, but still. Also, I liked Lawrence as Katniss, I just think she was almost a little too happy for me. I felt the directing could've been better. BUT. With all that being said, I did like the movie. Hahaha. I'm looking forward to Catching Fire, and hopefully they step up their game and just go up from here.

The Josh · Mar 25, 2012

Xaryen said:
So ***SPOILERS*** for those who have not yet seen/read The Hunger Games, but here are some of my thoughts on the movie:

Spoiler:

Well, movie adaptations will never be as good as the book lol. I'd probably have to see it again to appreciate it more and not be so analytical as the first time. I would've liked to see more violence/graphicness during the Games, but they had to keep it PG-13. Blah. Like, I think making Katniss shoot the District 1 tribute in the abdomen as opposed to his neck takes away from her badass-ness. Also, They kinda made the games seem like a walk in the park, don't you think? Just didn't look like Katniss had much of a struggle. I think the pacing was off. And Peeta's leg... um, that shouldn't have been healed so easily. And he clearly didn't lose it (the leg). I was annoyed they changed the way Katniss got the Mockingjay pin. But most of all I think, as I suspected before seeing the movie, that my biggest issue with the movie was Haymitch. He was just not drunk enough for me. Also, I see him being older. I know that he can't be more than like 40, but still. Also, I liked Lawrence as Katniss, I just think she was almost a little too happy for me. I felt the directing could've been better. BUT. With all that being said, I did like the movie. Hahaha. I'm looking forward to Catching Fire, and hopefully they step up their game and just go up from here.

Spoiler:

I don't mind that they changed some of the violence to allow more people to see it, and it make more money at the box office. As far as the games it came across as more just trying to strategize how to stay alive. The mocking jay pin I knew was changed from the trailer and didn't bother me a bit, but I am curious to see how things play out with Madge in movie two. The change didn't bother me though because I knew it was coming and how it went in the book not something super special. I thought haymitch was awesome! He was drunk enough for me and honestly couldn't be as drunk in the movie as he is in the books. It just wouldn't work. Directing and pacing was fine for me but the movie wasn't long enough. I needed another 30 mins of screen time to flesh out bits and pieces more. I hope the next one is better but they set the bar pretty high.

Irvy · Mar 25, 2012

2 days in and I'm about half way through the first book, really good! Hopefully done by the end of the week then I'll go see the movie

Kabukiman · Mar 25, 2012

The movie fixed my biggest problem with the book. In the book,

Spoiler:

there is a random rule change allowing 2 winners if they are from the same district

The movie expanded on that, and showed us the "behind the scenes" explaining why that happened.

I'm not saying the movie was better than the book, but the movie certainly did some things better than the book did.

The Josh · Mar 25, 2012

Kab:

Spoiler:

Yeah, it was nice to see the explanation. I had come up with something similar but as I said was nice to see it on screen.

Darklord Dave · Mar 26, 2012

After watching the movie I really wanted to jump in and re-read books 2 & 3. I remember when I first read them that they aren't so much a typical sequel but direct continuations fitting into a larger canvas. You can definitely see that The Hunger Games is just a small part of a much larger and more important story.

Darth Madden · Mar 26, 2012

I am rereading 1 before I see the movie since it was a year ago when I read it first. Still just as good the 2nd time around.

The Josh · Mar 26, 2012

Darklord Dave said:
After watching the movie I really wanted to jump in and re-read books 2 & 3. I remember when I first read them that they aren't so much a typical sequel but direct continuations fitting into a larger canvas. You can definitely see that The Hunger Games is just a small part of a much larger and more important story.

That's how two feels to me as well. I mean the story picks up right after the first so it makes sense.

carbo-fation · Mar 27, 2012

Well, I finished book 1 in a day and half and am almost done with book 2. These are really addicting and hard to put down. I still haven't seen the movie but I'm enjoying the books. The story is pretty straight forward with very few twists and turns.

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