The Hunger Games

It's important to be aware that the wealth we have exists because of other people who lack it.

"Teen gladiators from distant future! Famous as rockstars."


I don't want to write about what this book is briefly about, instead, i will dive straight into the main ideas that the book discusses. So what i'm writing here will be for people who have already read the first book or still reading it.

I think The Hunger games is a succesful mish mash of well known stories such as Battle Royale, 1984, Apocalyptico and the list goes on. Many times it reminded me this tv show called "Survivor" and how people like to see their favorite survivors arguing and yelling to each other. I've found this book more of a satire work against shows like Survivor than a science fiction. It's not heavy satire here of course, but a really good start for young readers. For that matter, i think The Hunger Games is an important book. We read a14 year old girl's criticism against the system of Panem, not one of Palahniuk's characters so it makes perfectly sense even for adult readers when all those criticism sounds superficially.

Also "The Games" kind of remind me how our lives are. I sense that the Author made the resemblance in purpose. In actual life, after growing up, we start to become alone against life. Trying to be liked by the society we live in so we can get their help for archieving our goals. At some point, we all need other people to love us and eventually we beat the weak.

One thing i did not find satisfying is that i did not find the characters interesting enough (for it's genre at least), i've never felt any connections between me and the characters, i' experienced the story more as an observer which is okay.

I would recommend this book to everybody but without expecting a deep system satire but more of an adventure story.