As story and as media phenomenon, Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games is at the top of the pile of wildly popular dystopian teen fiction that has dominated twenty-first-century bestseller lists (in no small part by appealing to readers well beyond their teen years). In the nation of Panem, power and fortune are centralized in the Capitol, to which twelve outlying Districts must pay tribute each year in the form of one boy and one girl, aged between twelve and eighteen, who are chosen by lottery to participate in the games that give the book its title: a cruel tournament requiring them to fight to the death in televised battles for the entertainment of the Capitol audience. Themes from ancient mythology, Christian theology, and the social battlefield of the high school cafeteria have all been invoked in explaining the book’s allure, which only indicates how rewarding a tale The Hunger Games proves to be.
I enjoyed this series, and wish it had been around when I was in high school. It would have made a number of things easier to understand, knowing that they were universal
Even though I often try and avoid things that draw quick attention and "hype", I caved in and read this series as they were being released. The world pulls you in. Being in middle and high school at the time, the characters were and still are incredibly relatable.
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