Oh my fucking god, this shit book. I read it because I was naive and interested a couple years ago. I could not get past the middle point, probably the only book I dropped and I read fucking Eragon(although that was 20 years ago).
Hunger games is so overrated and they don't even see that they and their dear leaders are turning into that shit, just look at how they dress and you will see similarities.
I enjoyed Hunger Games. It's not like it's the Lord of the Rings or anything, but it's a story about the evils of Big Governments and the power of the individual. There are worse things for kids to be reading!
At its core, the book series is practically AnCap in its criticism of government generally and centralized government in particular. At multiple points in the series, the dreamed of goal was to live off the grid far away from any sort of government.
I am still upset that the ending did not leave the protagonist as a broken shell of a person. The whole thing needed to simply end a few pages sooner and it would have been so much more..."meaningful" and "impactful" aren't quite the right words for it, but I can't think of the right wording.
The political insights about media-run-states in Hunger Games is pretty interesting, although I've only seen political analyses of it and never saw the movies or read the books. I doubt this guy is capable of understanding anything in any of those books he claims to have read.
Polticial analyses might be a bit more interesting, I'll give you that. I just found the book to be very dry overall. I've read a lot better books since and it doesn't even matter the age demographic of the book. IMHO a good book is a good book no matter the age demographic(see LOTR).
I've read YA novels before and since, stuff doesn't need to be deep, it just has to be written competently and interesting. I've read stuff targeted at women before, most of the ones sucked, the ones that were interesting usually did not come from western writers.
Oh my fucking god, this shit book. I read it because I was naive and interested a couple years ago. I could not get past the middle point, probably the only book I dropped and I read fucking Eragon(although that was 20 years ago).
Hunger games is so overrated and they don't even see that they and their dear leaders are turning into that shit, just look at how they dress and you will see similarities.
I enjoyed Hunger Games. It's not like it's the Lord of the Rings or anything, but it's a story about the evils of Big Governments and the power of the individual. There are worse things for kids to be reading!
At its core, the book series is practically AnCap in its criticism of government generally and centralized government in particular. At multiple points in the series, the dreamed of goal was to live off the grid far away from any sort of government.
I am still upset that the ending did not leave the protagonist as a broken shell of a person. The whole thing needed to simply end a few pages sooner and it would have been so much more..."meaningful" and "impactful" aren't quite the right words for it, but I can't think of the right wording.
The political insights about media-run-states in Hunger Games is pretty interesting, although I've only seen political analyses of it and never saw the movies or read the books. I doubt this guy is capable of understanding anything in any of those books he claims to have read.
Polticial analyses might be a bit more interesting, I'll give you that. I just found the book to be very dry overall. I've read a lot better books since and it doesn't even matter the age demographic of the book. IMHO a good book is a good book no matter the age demographic(see LOTR).
I've read YA novels before and since, stuff doesn't need to be deep, it just has to be written competently and interesting. I've read stuff targeted at women before, most of the ones sucked, the ones that were interesting usually did not come from western writers.