I find it pretty interesting that just a few months ago, everyone was singing praises for The Hunger Games, and now we've got pseudo-critics tearing it apart. I can't tell if it's the fact that people are starting to do more in depth readings of it and find it lacking, or they just want to rip on it because it's popular. It has it's flaws, but I wouldn't call it /terrible/. It's decent.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I read it when the movie was about to be releases and it was very popular. I had trouble even finishing the first book because if how lacking it was.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That is exactly the reason I got bored and couldn't continue. It was just too simple. The author did not utilize the context that she created to its fullest potential. The characters were under developed. The focus of the story quickly changed from the politics of a dystopia to a teenage love triangle. It was just a mess.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I read the series a little before the movie came out. I fully expected to like it and bought all three books in hardcover and added them to my collection. Personally, I think you heard more praises back then because a) the movie was creating a wave of brand new fans, b) a lot of people hadn't read the whole series yet, and c) the series got progressively worse, so by the time people finished Mockinjay there was a lot of hate for it. I remember seeing people expressing their dislike for it on amirite months ago, but like Runy said, we were overpowered. I was left very disappointed with the books, and to be honest, I don't remember much about them as they did not have a lasting impression on me.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I thought it was a series about a girl who doesn't like cats but in the end decides they're okey? That's what I heard at least...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

No it tries to do all those things. The characters and setting are too unrealistic for it to succeed with any sort of message. George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire does a much better job accurately portraying war and I would expect it too because it's adult fantasy.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

They're so good. If you think waiting for your mom is bad try waiting for george

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I keep imagining what would happen if George just died and we never get the next two books. (I'm currently reading Clash of Kings)

by Anonymous 11 years ago

He's told the producers of game of thrones the major plot points for the rest of the series in case he dies but he also doesn't want someone else writing it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'm glad I started reading when I did.(I started reading after dance.) because I can't imagine having to wait as long as people did.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I thought the book was going to have an interesting moral dilemma when it came to killing people out of survival, but the main character just conveniently avoided situations that would make her deal with that.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I've never read it and I never thought it was a disgusting book about killing people and therefore you are //wrong//, sir!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

*ma'am

by Anonymous 11 years ago

*madam It sounds classier.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

My apologies, sir.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I almost want to read it just so I can have an opinion on it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I refused to read the books until a month ago, and when I picked one up, I loved it. It had a very good message, and now I'm just waiting for the movie to come out on DVD do I can watch it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Underdeveloped characters? Unoriginal? Yes, the concept was borrowed from something else, but what it was borrowed from was a real-life event, not somebody else's work. In my opinion, it was very well written and the characters were developed just fine, especially since it was told in present tense. As for the "annoying" love triangle, that definitely wasn't the focus of the story, unlike //some// poorly written books (*cough*Twilight*cough*). It merely added to the plot and was kind of a side story going on behind all the action. Without the love triangle, I feel like it would have lacked a lot of structure because there would have been no rhyme or reason behind many of the characters' actions. It also spoke a lot to how what our society could become if we keep doing what we're doing. This is just my personal opinion, and I realize I could have just written a reply, but I thought it applied to more than just that discussion going on up at the top.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I really don't feel like getting into a big argument about this, so let's just respectfully disagree.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I agree that some of the characters were, more or less, empty shells like Bella was, but I think Katniss, Peeta, and Gale at least were developed as much as they needed to be. The supporting characters (think Katniss's mom, etc.) weren't as developed because they were just that-- supporting characters. I can understand why people wouldn't be into that, but it played more to my taste because I personally don't like it when a lot of time is spent on supporting characters that aren't as prevalent to the plot.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I can understand how you would feel that way, in some ways they were just objects but I definitely feel like there were some times when they had personality.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I read the first Hunger Games when it first came out because it seemed interesting. It was mediocre. I didn't try the later books when they came out becuase I thought that they wouldn't be worth my time, but I eventually did try them recently. They get better (Mockingjay was at least decent), but I still didn't enjoy them much, and they definately didn't live up to the hype that they got (although there are very few books that do deserve that level of praise).

by Anonymous 11 years ago