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I can’t believe this book for young adults is as good as everyone said! Not that I don’t trust my fellow bloggers, but the premise seemed so grim that I couldn’t imagine making silk out of such a sow’s ear. I’m happy to declare I was so wrong.

Note to readers: This review is part of my ongoing series, “Probable Last Person in the Universe to Have Read This Book.”

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The Girl (age 11) got an A+ in reading class on the book talk she did for The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (read my review), which she finally finished over the weekend.  (She is reading several books ...

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“Survivor on steroids” is what Serena called the book when we talked about it at lunch recently, and I agree with that assessment. The Hunger Games is a dystopian young adult novel about North America ...

The Hunger Games reads fast for a 374-page book, and while it’s not for the faint of heart, I highly recommend it if you like dystopian novels with lots of action. I don’t know how I’m going to wait for ...

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While Katniss’s character might be based on the ancient hero Theseus, the world in which she lives feels very alive and contemporary. Katniss – like us – lives in a society saturated with video cameras ...

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Katniss Everdeen, then, faces many of the same questions that we do in our own contemporary moment. What does it mean to live in a reality TV culture? What constitutes entertainment? Because of the dystopian ...

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Set in the future, The Hunger Games takes place long after natural disasters, war, disease, and famine destroyed society as we know it. From the ruins of North America rose the nation of Panem, which consisted of a powerful Capitol ruling over thirteen ...

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I’ve looked at this book from multiple angles, trying to find flaws. But I can’t and honestly, if I have to work that hard to find some, I probably won’t. This is not a book for everyone. It does not flinch. There are parts which are unsettling and uncomfortable ...

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I can’t believe this book for young adults is as good as everyone said! Not that I don’t trust my fellow bloggers, but the premise seemed so grim that I couldn’t imagine making silk out of such a sow’s ear. I’m happy to declare I was so wrong.

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Note to readers: This review is part of my ongoing series, “Probable Last Person in the Universe to Have Read This Book.”

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In my Teenreads.com review of THE SILENCED by James DeVita, I noted that we have a love of dystopian novels. I think it's because we, as humans, like to be right. We like to be able to make correlations between the conditions we see in the world and possible scenarios about how those conditions could achieve Worse Case Scenario status. It's frightening, really, that we should want to be right about that. Maybe it could be that we're glad other people (authors) seem to share our concerns about our direction --- as a civilization, as a country.

You'll be hearing a lot about THE HUNGER GAMES in the weeks and months to come, if you haven’t already. There's good reason for that. If you're like me, you have an unrelenting pile of "to be read" books. Take my advice: nudge this one closer to the top.

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