Sunday, May 16, 2010

The Great Expectation: The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

My first response when I was recommended this book was “This book is about what??! Oh my god. And it's for teens? Dear god.”

I tend to be a bit of a snob about youth literature, as though the Kathy Griffin and Sarah Silverman books I just read show a lot of sophistication. Adult Harry Potter fans seem like the biggest literary snobs in the world and Twilight fans seem… “special.” Both of the groups seem as though they are a part of a cult. So when someone recommended this book and I saw the uproar over Suzanne Collins at the Texas Library Association Conference, I was intrigued. Could this be the book to break me out of my snobbery?

2 comments:

  1. You must read this book. It is so good and the second book is even better. It's classified teen fiction but is so much more. I have a local teacher who uses this series in her adult literature classes.

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  2. I loved it so much! I was a little shocked. I will have my review up very soon.

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