Following the recent obsession with The Hunger Games and the talk that it’s just a ripoff of Battle Royale, I thought I’d take a look at it. There are a few similarities in the story and feel of the Hunger Games and Battle Royale. Both have an evil government putting kids in a battle to the death through random selection. Both follow the Survivor model of a running tally as the little group gets smaller and smaller. Both reward the sole survivor of the contest. And both have too many characters that are, for all intents and purposes, identical and…
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The Hunger Game Trilogy
Do something shocking every thousand words. —A.E. van Vogt A few spoilers. The Hunger Games Trilogy is a compelling roller coaster of shocking moments and it also meets the most important standard that any fictive writing can-it elicits emotion in the reader. By the time I got to the last page of Mockingjay I was ready to swallow a handful of poisoned berries myself. Easily the best of the books is The Hunger Games, where our moody hero Katniss chooses to sacrifice herself so that her little sister will not have to die in the…