REVISIONS: THE HUNGER GAMES
This is a revised post from my old blog. The original post can be found here . Abstract: Popcorn fiction with a philosophic glaze. Pacing starts out horrible but improves, and the main conflict and the world are easy to invest in. Katniss is frustrating, however, and the prose is more like watching a movie than reading a book. Overall, it’s a fun, and eventually exciting book, though not deserving the level of praise it received. Content Warning (highlight to view): violent imagery, swearing, alcohol, disturbing descriptions ——— I had planned this week to do a new book review, but I fell behind due to some things, so here we’ve got a return to my old not-friend: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Like most, I sped through this novel when I read it some years back. The pacing is fantastic for most of this book (more on that later), and the concept is eternally intriguing. Dystopia is the genre of our disenchanted age. It is the genre of fascism, socialist “utopias,” and WW