The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

[bluewillowtree]

This is actually my last book review for 2011, but I'm a little late in writing it up.

Anyway, I'd been hearing good things about the Hunger Games trilogy for a while, but finally remembered to sign up on the library's waiting list after a recent post from hoperomantic. And the book was just as awesome as she said it would be - thanks for the great

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[tracyj23]

It's funny, I've heard nothing but good things about this series yet I could'nt even finish The Hunger Games. I tried reading it twice but both times I just found it boring. My eldest sn too - his girlfriends recommended it to him and he read about a third of it but then said he didn't like it. I don't know what it is about us that we dont like it since the rest of the world does, but I just can't bring myself to try again.

[bluewillowtree]

Hey, to each their own :) It certainly doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you! I disagree with most of the rest of the world in that I didn't like The DaVinci Code, and I couldn't get through even the beginning of the book that came before it.

And you've said you're not into fantasy, right? So it makes sense that The Hunger Games wouldn't be your thing?

[tracyj23]

I didn't like The DaVinci Code either. Guess we d o have that in common, and of course the Julia Spencer-Fleming books. I've been rereading the few that I've found in the library lately. I read on JSF's blog that stores are going to be rereleasing the first book in paperback soon so I can finally read it. I began at two because none of my local libraries has it. (?) But they have all the rest ... makes no sense to me.

I'm slowly collecting J.D. Robb's "In Death" series as well. I've bought 7 of them so far and have reread them all. I really am hopeless. :)

Yes, I'm not big on fantasy. I used to like it more when I was in my twenties but I don't enjoy it much now. I think the only fantasy writer I like is Guy Gavriel Kay.

[bluewillowtree]

I'm glad I'm not the only one with The DaVinci Code! My dad agrees on that one, too; he described it as an interesting plot with terribly written characters, which I think sums it up pretty well.

I read part of the first In Death book at Barnes & Noble the other day. I'm intrigued. The violence is definitely on the graphic side for me, but the story is fascinating, and I sure do want to read more about Roarke! I'll pick it back up next time I'm there, though I'm in the middle of two other books at the moment. Sadly, the one for my book club is in that style where the writer doesn't use quotation marks or much of any punctuation. I'm really not a fan of that. I don't think it makes the writing edgy or unique, just frustratingly difficult to read. *sigh*

Yay that they're re-releasing In the Bleak Midwinter! They have it in audiobook form at my library, and though I've already listened to it once this year (after reading the book), I think I may have to get it again. It's so seasonally appropriate right now, and I miss Clare and Russ!