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The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the perspective of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the future, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle royale to the death. The book received critical acclaim from major reviewers and authors. It was praised for its plot and character development. In writing The Hunger Games, Collins drew upon Greek mythology, Roman gladiatorial games, and contemporary reality television for thematic content. The novel won many awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, and was named one of Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of …
The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the perspective of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the future, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle royale to the death. The book received critical acclaim from major reviewers and authors. It was praised for its plot and character development. In writing The Hunger Games, Collins drew upon Greek mythology, Roman gladiatorial games, and contemporary reality television for thematic content. The novel won many awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, and was named one of Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of the Year" in 2008. The Hunger Games was first published in hardcover on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic, featuring a cover designed by Tim O'Brien. It has since been released in paperback and also as an audiobook and ebook. After an initial print of 200,000, the book had sold 800,000 copies by February 2010. Since its release, The Hunger Games has been translated into 26 languages, and publishing rights have been sold in 38 territories. The novel is the first in The Hunger Games trilogy, followed by Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010). A film adaptation, directed by Gary Ross and co-written and co-produced by Collins herself, was released in 2012.
I honestly don't know, because I really enjoyed this book back in my early 20s. Enough that I could compare it to the movie. I definitely need to read them all soon.
Casi siempre trato de evitar los súper best sellers o las trilogías, pero como para todo siempre hay una primera vez. Además en esta ocasión después del libro vi la película, honestamente un plan demasiado estructurado para mi hábito de lectura.
Pero en fin, que se puede de The Hunger Games, sin duda una historia interesante, es decir la propuesta de un mundo post-apocalíptico, con grandes diferencias sociales y un sistema de gobierno autoritario que relega los derechos humanos fundamentales y se aprovecha de esta situación para volverlo un show mediático, suena bien aunque no nuevo; pudiera considerarse una mezcla entre el circo romano y el big brother.
La historia es bastante lineal y predecible, con un lenguaje simple que deja avanzar rápidamente. Si bien describe con detalle los elementos escénicos y representa el dramatismo de las escenas, tampoco abusa y no te quedas con sensación de que estás …
Casi siempre trato de evitar los súper best sellers o las trilogías, pero como para todo siempre hay una primera vez. Además en esta ocasión después del libro vi la película, honestamente un plan demasiado estructurado para mi hábito de lectura.
Pero en fin, que se puede de The Hunger Games, sin duda una historia interesante, es decir la propuesta de un mundo post-apocalíptico, con grandes diferencias sociales y un sistema de gobierno autoritario que relega los derechos humanos fundamentales y se aprovecha de esta situación para volverlo un show mediático, suena bien aunque no nuevo; pudiera considerarse una mezcla entre el circo romano y el big brother.
La historia es bastante lineal y predecible, con un lenguaje simple que deja avanzar rápidamente. Si bien describe con detalle los elementos escénicos y representa el dramatismo de las escenas, tampoco abusa y no te quedas con sensación de que estás leyendo el relleno nada más.
Los personajes aceptables y bien representados, sin embargo le falto fuerza para la justificación de sus actos, ya que todo se da por hecho.
En resumen es una lectura rápida, para pasar un buen rato, y a pesar de una problemática que se puede explotar desde diversos puntos de vista, no esperen mucho más que acción.
