Posted 5 months ago Comments

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Christian Dior| Fall 2011 Couture

Reminds me of Katniss.

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: The Hunger Games Katniss

Posted 1 year ago Comments

I want to read The Hunger Games right now.

And I do mean right now.

This is all Rayray’s fault. Her reaction as she finished reading the trilogy was totally intriguing, and I’m wondering if I’ll have the same reaction as well.

It’s not like I am not allowed to read the first book. I’m just scared that if I started reading it, I might not stop until I finish all three. (and I have things to study for ojt. ugh c#, .net asdfjkl). So I’m torn.

Quoting @vivaregina’s post regarding The Hunger Games (where @stillflailing and I knew about this trilogy),

The Hunger Games trilogy is classified as a young adult speculative fiction series. I bought the books because I was looking for light reading, and young adult novels are always good for that. Little did I know that, although I was getting what I asked for and the text wasn’t challenging, the story itself would be one of the heaviest I’d ever read.

Like, seriously, after I finished Mockingjay, I was completely dazed. I just threw myself into bed and stared at my ceiling for 15 minutes. It was so intense.

Anyway. We find ourselves in a dystopian future; in a country called Panem (formerly North America) that is ruled by an all-powerful Capitol. Panem is divided into 12 districts. Each district serves a specific purpose: one cares for livestock, another does the fishing, another is in charge of agriculture, there’s a district for electronics, for lumber, etcetera. All of these districts deliver goods to the Capitol. All the districts are strictly controlled. All of them live in near poverty. All of them live in fear.

And every year, as punishment for an attempt to revolt against the Capitol (which lead to the destruction of District 13), each district is required to send two children between the ages of 12 and 18—one male, one female—to battle to the death until there is only one person left standing, in a brutal, televised bloodbath called the Hunger Games.

Children die to entertain the Capitol, and the districts never forget that they’re so powerless, they can’t even save their children from slaughter. Heavy stuff for young adult, eh?

More HERE.

: @stillflailing @vivaregina THE HUNGER GAMES I SO WANT TO READ RIGHT NOW