Pfff Hunger Games wasn’t brilliant.
I mean, it was a book wrote for teenagers, it definitely went more for the YA title than “hugely impactful peace of thought provoking literature” but the point was, it at least had some kind of backbone compared to the others that seemed to try to ride off of the Hunger Games.
The first two books were very competent storytelling and pretty decent writing. I agree that nothing about it was brilliant, but it was a compelling page turner which told an interesting story in under 400 pages, in a world where it felt like genius was being measured in page count. I don’t even really think the first one was particularly YA. It had Anthem vibes without all of the weird baggage.
Did you read them?
Yes. I wouldn’t have made my initial comment here otherwise.
Since you are a stranger I was just curious. Lots of people make statements without a foundation (:
As you well know, I am not lots of people.
I assume you’re a handful at most, but most likely 1 or 0
Isn’t this the general nature of YA fiction? I wager Hunger Games was a change from years of regurgitating the ‘Magic School’ setting.
Also, did any of those knockoffs become popular?
And magic school was a change from detective children back in the day. YA changes with each decade, and if it gets kids reading, I’m ok with it
Me and the wife just watched the Divergence trilogy. How apropos.
I’m not gonna say those books were good, but the movies are really another level of terrible
Didn’t they change the plot for the adaptation especially in the third one? I think, I might have read something about that…
If they changed things, why didn’t they improve stuff or make some world-building, characterization or dialogue make sense?
I think I lost some brain cells watching those movies. But I was weirdly enterntained, not exactly ‘with’ more like entertained ‘at’ (can you actually say that?).
And it got only worse with each movie; why did I keep watching?
the parody movie was better
I liked Gregor the Overlander
The hunger games inadvertently recreated the capitalist critique it was making, but irl
I loved The Hunger Games. The cookie cutter nonsense was wild but there was some good stuff that surfaced outside of that. I liked the first couple Mortal Instruments books a lot too.
Let’s not demean people for reading. Doesn’t matter the story.
did this demean people for reading anywhere? it took shots at the authors, sure. not sure what I’m missing
some hardcore YA readers are the type to be easily offended at any suggested that maybe the YA isn’t the highest form of fiction, and take it as a personal insult.
tumblr was notorious for rants about how oppressed YA fiction was by those evil snobs who read adult genre fiction…
i remember on reddit, repeatedly being told what an awful snob i was for saying I don’t read YA fiction and how I was discouraging reading by reading what I wanted to read… or something.
The Hunger Games is just a shitty watered down knockoff of Battle Royale.
