I just read The Hunger Games and I thought it was amazing. Has any1 else read it or have any thoughts about it?

*Raises hand* ME ME ME ME!!!!!!

It was probably one of the most amazing books I've read

Alaska turned me on to it and I was super caputured by it.
Its kind of like you KNOW whos going to win but its everything else tht sends you on an emotional rollercoaster

And like many other books recently... I believe this is also being turned into a movie... I personally think it would be an awesome movie. Theres just so much to play around with as far as the effects for like the fire and playing field what not. They are gonna have an interesting time casting if they really ARE doing it lol. And its REALLY impossible to change the plot because well... If you've read it know why XD

My fav characters.... Definately Rue is one. I have a soft spot for little girls (Excpt in a certain series....) and she was a smart little one too. Katnis (I know I probably spelled it wrong XD) was probably one of the most logical female character I've come in contact with... She wasn''t stupid or depending on other people (Except when it was absoultly nesscary) she was a normal strong yet weak person.
I don't remember the girl's name but I do remember the nickname.. FOX FACE! I <3 FOX FACE and I have no clue why. It always was so interesting when she came into the picture. I kind of projected myslef into fox face's place.. I felt werid character/real person connection you know? XD

I am way excited for the next books though.... I believe its a trilogy or there is just going to be a sequel.... I cannot remember at the moment lol.

So on Ash's scale of awesomeness... 20/10 and thats a high honor that the mortal instruments reached lol.

I really love to say this and I can't say it enough.

I told you so ash. So HA!!!! Without me you might have missed out on an amazing book.

Peeta was my favourite. He captured my heart in the flashback scene when he gave her the bread. When I read that I was like "This guy is going down in my fav male character's list". He's up there right beside Po from Graceling.

[BTW ASH. READ GRACELINGGGGG!!!!! -FOAMS AT MOUTH-]

ahem. I didn't like Rue until her last moments. See, Ash has a weakness against little girls, and I can't bring myself to trust them. When Katniss befriended her I was like "NOOOOO. KAT NOOOOOO. Bad move girl!! She's gonna stab you in the neck when you fall asleep!!!!" It took me, like I said, right up until the very end [and I'm talking the end] to trust her not to kill Kat.

I really liked Foxface. But I'm debating how I feel about her death. I like how she died because it was just convenient for Peeta and Kat and the less trouble for them means the more rest for my poor heart, but at the same time it almost felt like cheating. You know, like Peeta and Kat took the easy way out. But whatever.

Did anybody else feel like the wolves literally came out of fucking nowhere? Or wait... sorry. Phrased it wrong. They DID literally come out of fucking nowhere. XDD. lol. Did anybody else feel like the wolves came figuratively out of nowhere??? XDDD. I mean, if they were just normal wolves I would have been fine. But they totally weren't so I was kinda like >.> wtf.

And okay, I hated the ending almost as much as I hated the ending to CoA. I was SOOOOO pissed. Like seriously??? WTFF. Stupid Katniss and her stupid shinanigans. I really really hate it when the girl goes for the 'best friend'. I hated it when Bella went for Jacob and I hated it even more when Clary went for Simon. I can never ever like the best friend. In fact, I always tend to hate the best friend [at least relationship wise]. There is no good reason for her to go for Gary. Like WTF. Seirously??? And it went against all ALL logic of books too. Because the audience cannot possibly like Gary more then Peeta considering Peeta was the Main Male character and Gary was mentioned like what? 5% of the book? No. That was just stupid. Stupid stupid stupid and I am still fucking pissed at that. D8<

And anybody else notice that the second book is now coming out in October as uposed to September? Thats en entire month longer of a wait. But whatever.

Oh and in case anybody wanted a synopsis, I found the best one to be deliverd by a review from Stephen King. This is taken from the official "The Hunger Games" site.

Quote:

"As negative Utopias go, Suzanne Collins has created a dilly. The United States is gone. North America has become Panem, a TV-dominated dictatorship run from a city called the Capitol. The rest of Panem is divided into 12 Districts (the former 13th had the bad judgment to revolt and no longer exists). The yearly highlight in this nightmare world is the Hunger Games, a bloodthirsty reality TV show in which 24 teenagers chosen by lottery - two from each District - fight each other in a desolate environment called the "arena." The winner gets a life of ease; the losers get death. The only "unspoken rule" is that you can't eat the dead contestants. Let's see the makers of the movie version try to get a PG-13 on this baby. Our heroine is Katniss Everdeen (lame name, cool kid), a resident of District 12, which used to be Appalachia. She lives in a desperately poor mining community called the Seam, and when her little sister's name is chosen as one of the contestants in the upcoming Hunger Games, Katniss volunteers to take her place. A gutsy decision, given the fact that District 12 hasn't produced a Hunger Games winner in 30 years or so, making them the Chicago Cubs of the postapocalypse world. Complicating her already desperate situation is her growing affection for the other District 12 contestant, a clueless baker's son named Peeta Mellark. Further complicating her situation is her sorta-crush on her 18-year-old hunting partner, Gale. Gale isn't clueless; Gale is smoldering. Says so right on page 14. The love triangle is fairly standard teen-read stuff; what 16-year-old girl wouldn't like to have two interesting guys to choose from? The rest of The Hunger Games, however, is a violent, jarring speed--rap of a novel that generates nearly constant suspense and may also generate a fair amount of controversy. I couldn't stop reading, and once I got over the main character's name (Gale calls her Catnip - ugh), I got to like her a lot. And although "young adult novel" is a dumbbell term I put right up there with "jumbo shrimp" and "airline food" in the oxymoron sweepstakes, how many novels so categorized feature one character stung to death by monster wasps and another more or less eaten alive by mutant werewolves? I say more or less because Katniss, a bow-and-arrow Annie Oakley, puts the poor kid out of his misery before the werewolves can get to the prime cuts. Collins is an efficient no-nonsense prose stylist with a pleasantly dry sense of humor. Reading The Hunger Games is as addictive (and as violently simple) as playing one of those shoot-it-if-it-moves videogames in the lobby of the local eightplex; you know it's not real, but you keep plugging in quarters anyway. Balancing off the efficiency are displays of authorial laziness that kids will accept more readily than adults. When Katniss needs burn cream or medicine for Peeta, whom she more or less babysits during the second half of the book, the stuff floats down from the sky on silver parachutes. And although the bloody action in the arena is televised by multiple cameras, Collins never mentions Katniss seeing one. Also, readers of Battle Royale (by Koushun Takami), The Running Man, or The Long Walk (those latter two by some guy named Bachman) will quickly realize they have visited these TV badlands before. But since this is the first novel of a projected trilogy, it seems to me that the essential question is whether or not readers will care enough to stick around and find out what comes next for Katniss. I know I will. But then, I also have a habit of playing Time Crisis until all my quarters are gone." Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly Online

Ah, and soryy for the off-topic for a sec, but Graceling was amazinggg too! i read that a little while ago. katsa was amazing and i know that FIRE and BITTERBLUE are some more books she is writing.

**back on topic**
but i was hoping Gale would be more of a main character! i liked him alot...but then came Peeta. i luvvved him. katniss should make up her mind cuz im not sure which she is going for yet. the ending was great...but i hated it! just like city of ashes. atleast the next book comes out on September 1 (or October...? )instead of 2010 for ID.

it would make a great movie. the actors and the effects would hav to be pretty good to equal the amazingness tho.

the wolves...wel...kinda creepy but sumthin i didnt gess would happen at all.

for my favorite characters- i liked Rue but i tihnk Kat wanted her more as an ally because she reminded her of her little sister. i think they were the same age too...um i nvr liked Cato but fox face i liked a little for alwasy being so clever and smart. Cato seemed insane to me...i loved Peeta and Katniss.

CATO WAS FUCKING INSANE! HOLYMUTHEROFSHIT HE WAS INSANE! XD

I totally forgot about the boys XDDD

I absoultly LUUURRRRVVVVVEEEEDDDDD Peeta!!! I really seem to hate the best friend thing as well.. Its like... YOU SHOULD HAVE FORGOTTEN AOUT THEM BY NOW!! Take the one right in front of you girL!

I agree with the ending.. I was just like... WTF????!!! Make up the maind Katniss XD


Gale was in it for like 5% and mentioning here and there but I did like him but I want him as the friend not the BOYFRIEND. GAH! Boys make things SOOO complicated.

OHMYGOD! His name is TOTALLY leaving my brain right now.... Thresh???? It was something like that... Big giant guy.... W/e XD.
When he had his moment with Katniss, the corners of my mouth turned up in a smile... He seemed like a teddybear at heart... Idk why... He just did.

The Wolves FREAKED ME OUT! It totally came out of left field... I really want the next books too come out... MUST KNOW WHAT HAPPENS!

And with Rue, I thought she was gonna kill her 2 in her sleep but when she didn't I trusted her.. YOu have the chance to do it then, why wait?? XD.

Spoiler:
	I was crying when they took Peeta in that hospital like room after the games ended. I thoght they were gonna make him a wolf . I was probably feeling feeling what Katniss was feeling at that moment

OFF TOPIC TIME!!!!
I know honey bunny... I know you told me XD. I probably would have picked it up anyways XD. The cover really interested me XD.

Nd it is not an issue that I think little girls are ADORABLE! I'm the youngest in my family I know what its like to be like that XD. Even though I'm the tallest girl in my family .

Hmmmmm.............................. Should I read Graceling?????? XD
I probably will. You're foaming at the mouth so I probably should so you don't give me rabies XD.

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one more thing about the end:

the body polish was rele cool and

Spoiler:
	i never thot that Peeta would get a new leg. after Katniss found out that the president didnt like her i wondered if mayeb they were gonna do sumthing to make it so only 1 of them won...

ya and i was sooo happy when Thresh let Katniss go! I liked her designer...um i dnt hav my book with me so ill get it later...and i even started to like Haymitch towards the end. once he put down his spirits then he was actually rele smart.

and Katniss's mom never really ended up as a major charactor. Prim probably was fine while Katniss was gone but I wonder if her mom "went away" like she did with Katniss and Prim after her husband died.

I loved her designer!!! he was uber amazing!! He honestly reminded me of some of my guy friends. Like the trustworthy vibe he gave off. It just gave you that hot chocolate and a warm blanket feeling If he turns out evil... I will cry.

Haymitch did better at the end.. He was an ass most of time but he probably had good intentions under his drunkness (Thats probably not a word but it is now XD)

Her mom was kind of like the thing in the back of her mind, in my opinion, that kind helped her in her time of need. Prim... Another little girl that made me happy. I want a pet goat now because of this book XD.

so who should Katniss be with? Peeta or Gale? or, this wil probly make more sense, who do u think Katniss is loves as a boyfriend and as a friend/family?

and what do u think Gale was going to say wen he was pulled away from Katniss in the room? "Katniss, remember, I--" ...personally im kinda hoping he would hav sed 'remember, I love you.'. just to elaborate on the I Love You point, he did say that he wanted to run away with her.

but then agin, there is Peeta. if i can remember right, Peeta rele was in love with Katniss. was she in love with him too? could she just not realize that she was? after all the kissing and stuff...it makes u wonder.

the end of the book made me cry sooo hard. it was so sad. and even in the beggining of the book i was crying even tho i wasnt rele attached to the characters.

correct me if im wrong...but i heard that apparently Catching Fire (the 2nd and nxt book in the Trilogy) was going to coming out on September 8, but now is coming out on September 1. I also heard it was coming out sometime in October too tho?

***and sry for off-topicness agin! but i was wondering if any1 had some good book suggestions? Im currently reading the UGLIES books, The Summoning/The Awakening, and the Midnighters Trilogy.

My favorite book so far!