I hate when people try to justify the hunger games. No matter how many excuses they give they are denying that the series is about cold blooded murder.... of kids..... That's messed up, amirite?

The Lord of the flies is about children murdering children and going savage. Romeo and Juliet? Teen Suicide? Need we even mention the Odyssey? You don't seen to have an issue with that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

How do you know? This post refers solely to one series and makes no mention of those others.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

All those books you listed are great and im not gona sit here and weigh stones for hours. So I don't have a problem with books that have moral dilemmas. I disagree that people let their kids read books like this.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It's a book. Do you think Suzanne Collins has some kind of dead child fetish?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Om not mad at Collins . I'm mad at the stupid parents who let there young kids take lessons from a book like this. If the kids were older like high school I'd be fine with it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I read "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" (Holocaust book) in 5th grade but that doesn't mean I'm going to burn Jews. Kids play CoD but that doesn't make then go shoot people. It's a book...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The book boy with the striped pajamas doesn't try to make you admire something or someone who is not worth admiring. As for cod I find more and more that young kids are numb to murder. Im sure that If the book was about that the kids had to rape instead of murder no one would let their kids read it

by Anonymous 11 years ago

How are they glorifying it? They fight a war to stop it

by Anonymous 11 years ago

How are they glorifying it? They fight a war to stop it

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yeah they did it very poorly. What If in the books when everybody turned on the tv to see katniss and everybody else flaunting the government and not fighting each other. I feel like that be a better way of accomplishing what their trying to do

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's kind of the point. It's criticising a society where people are happy to do nothing about atrocities as long as they themselves are comfortable. That people would rather hear a juicy news story than actually do anything about it. AKA, it's a thinly-veiled metaphor for first-world people who don't care about political issues.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Seeing as Hunger Games is a totall ripoff of Battle Royale, perhaps you should target your frustration there instead. For the record, I think that 'taboo' is the most evil concept on earth. Hiding the world from innocents isn't going to stop it catching up with them, and when it does they won't be prepared.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't know anything about Battle Royale, but nothing in the Hunger Games has anything to do with taboo.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh god, you've totally got the wrong end of the stick. I'm talking about people like the amiriter, not Hunger Games.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Oh, I see what you mean. Ignore my previous comment.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It's fine, go team Red! :P

by Anonymous 11 years ago

You sound like someone who judges a book by its freaking cover. Assuming that you've already read the novel, I find it astonishing that you don't understand the critique of society skillfully written into the story. As people have already stated, it's a metaphor for the upper-class citizens who couldn't give a shit about some of the problems in the world today.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It wasn't really skillfully written into the story. Unless the reader is too stupid to notice, he/she has that theme forced down their throat over and over again throughout the series.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Im finishing a course on inspectional and active reading in private school. I read at a college level in my freshman year. I've read all three books. I think I know how to critique a book properly. I'm mad that parents let there kids be swept away by this moral dilemma. I agree with you on what the book is about however I don't think the 4 th graders that read this even know what this means

by Anonymous 11 years ago

anyone that argues this point clearly didn't understand the the story

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I don't think any of you know the difference from understanding the books point rather than being sucked into a book because it's good even though it's extremely dark

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I think there's a better way to word this post. I read the comments and it sounds like your main problem is young kids reading it, not the book itself.

by Anonymous 11 years ago