Anyway it started building quite a buzz after that, with the movie and all that so I decided after a lot of persuasion I had another go this week. I got hold of it earlier in the year but only got up to pg14 before I latched onto a more interesting read.
At first it was again boring. I just kept thinking 'okay just finish it quickly so I can move onto better books' it was boringgggg until like 90 pages, then it became more interesting but even then It didn't pick up as quickly as I wished it would. People say its addictive and brilliantly written and even that it doesn't drag but I still found that in comparison to others I've read the plot didn't move quick enough or I just wasn't that drawn into the characters Suzzane Collins created. It was addictive and exhilirating when the Games did begin but in contrast with other reads, it didn't leave much of an impact.
The book overall was quite alright. I guess my being well partially better read in scifi downgraded my score for this book because I've been exposed to many other different novels of the genre but I can understand why other people find it really good and I will finish the series.
A few days before starting Hunger Games I read Ray Bradbury's scifi classic Fahrenheit 451 and initially I was slow reading that novel as well but it became really good after a while. It's a short read with a totla of 221pgs but Bradbury really did a good job of fleshing out the characters and the main character is easily relatable esp in contrast to the other inhumane elements in the novel.
Fahrenheit 451 gave a more lasting impression than Hunger Games, to me anyway. I remember more of the plot and details in Bradbury's than HG even though I read Bradbury first. Even though I read Fahrenehit 451 in slow short periods of time during a course of 5 or 6 days compared to HG where I read for 1.5hr on monday and then picked it up yesterday and finished after another 9hrs, it's funny how I had to sometimes flip back to certain pages in HG because I'd forgotten certain things during those hrs and with Bradbury's I remembered even through the days. I think it's because HG didn't stick or put too much detail in idk but it was just action and I think a tad too much violence for me and not enough plot development. Bradbury didn't have much extreme events in comparison to Collins but still it was more impressionable than HG to me. I think it explains why Bradbury's is a classic and classics are always such an awesome read :)
Don't hold my word for the books though I might just have eccentric taste and my opinion on HG may be bias since it had a bad first impression
I feel really refreshed and now regretting that I didn't borrow more books. I want to dig into another book lol esp more Bradbury :D
- Lyhnn
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