About this title: The acclaimed author of the "New York Times"-bestselling Underland Chronicles series delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in a stunning novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to the present.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780439023481ISBN:0439023483
Description: New. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 374 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780439023481ISBN:0439023483
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 374 p. Hunger Games, 1. Audience: Children/juvenile; Young adult. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SCHOLASTIC Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781407109084ISBN:1407109081
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 464 pages. Sixteen-year-old katniss everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual hunger games, a fight to the death on live tv. but katniss has been close to death before-and survival, for her, is second nature. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Date Published: 2009-09-02
ISBN-13:9781410419866ISBN:141041986X
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781410419866. read more
Edition: Large type / large print.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781410419866ISBN:141041986X
Description: New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 485 p. Thorndike Literacy Bridge Young Adult. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Spoken Word Compact Disc
Publisher: Scholastic Audio Cassette
Date Published: 2008-10-01
ISBN-13:9780545091022ISBN:0545091020
Description: NEW. Spoken Word Compact Disc. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780545091022. read more
Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Scholastic Audio Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780545091022ISBN:0545091020
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Pre-Loaded Audio Player
Publisher: Findaway World Llc
Date Published: 2008-10-01
ISBN-13:9781606406823ISBN:1606406825
Description: NEW. Pre-Loaded Audio Player. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781606406823. read more
Binding: Spoken Word Compact Disc
Publisher: Scholastic Audio Cassette
Date Published: 2008-10-01
ISBN-13:9780545091060ISBN:0545091063
Description: NEW. Spoken Word Compact Disc. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780545091060. read more
Binding: Preloaded Digital Audio Player
Publisher: Playaway
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781606406823ISBN:1606406825
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Scholastic Audio Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780545091060ISBN:0545091063
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Edition: 1st edition. 1st Printing.
Binding: HC in dust jacket.
Publisher: Scholastic Press, NY
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780439023481ISBN:0439023483
Description: A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. read more
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scholastic, New York
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780439023481ISBN:0439023483
Description: (2008). As New in an As New dustjacket. Gray boards. Both the spine and the decorative front panel are stamped in gilt. Octavo. Red endpapers. 374pps. A flawless, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, is equally fine; the original price is intact. The first book of the popular series. "...In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Date Published: 2008-09-14
ISBN-13:9780439023481ISBN:0439023483
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Signed first edition/first impression of the start of a new trilogy by the author of the Gregor/Overlander series. Collins kicks up the adrenaline in this fast-paced noir thriller set in a post-apocalyptic world that echoes the Greek myths where youths had to be sacrificed to some minotaur or similar monster. Only in Collins's world, the monster is the other contestants and a live television audience. Signed directly to title page, along with author's beautiful custom ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Date Published: 2008-09-14
ISBN-13:9780439023481ISBN:0439023483
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Signed first editions/first impressions of the first two books of The Hunger Games trilogy by the author of the Gregor/Overlander series. Collins kicks up the adrenaline in these fast-paced noir thrillers set in a post-apocalyptic world that echoes the Greek myths where youths had to be sacrificed to some minotaur or similar monster. Only in Collins's world, the monster is the other contestants and a live television audience. Both books pristine copies, each signed ... read more
"I love this book so much. I don’t know if I would have picked it up if I’d found it on my own. I like any fiction that is good story telling, but I’m not generally drawn to stories about a gray, depressing future. Add ritualized child suffering and you can pretty much guarantee that I’m not reading your stinky book, but a few trusted sources recommended I read “The Hunger Games” and I’m so glad I did because this book is amazing.
Suzanne Collins is a talented story teller. The setting, character development, plot, and dialog were all exceptional. The action was fantastic. This book doesn’t stop; if it’s not immediate physical danger its emotional turmoil, but in a way that’s thrilling, not depressing or tiresome. She could give her boys more masculine names, but that’s my one, half-hearted complaint. It was not predictable to me at all, so I was enthralled the whole time. I was in that world with them, emotionally involved and excited all the way to the end.
I’m about to pee my pants waiting for “Catching Fire.”"
"Going into "The Hunger Games," I heard all the hype about it, declaring it one of the best books of the year and possibly even a new classic. The problem with hype like that is it sets unrealistic expectations for me. As I sat down to finally read the book, I hoped I could separate the hype from the reality and judge the book on its own merits.
And it is a good book. It's not ground-breaking but it's still quite good and a novel twist on the classic short story, "The Most Dangerous Game." In the near future, the former United States has been divided into 12 territories. Each year, tributes are selected from each territory to compete in the hunger games, a kind of brutal post-apocalyptic version of "Survivor." The winner gets to live and wins fame, fortune and food for his or her district.
Our heroine, Katsiss volunteers for the role when her younger sister is selected. She's whisked away to the Capitol to train and then to compete, along with the son of a baker from her district. The two create a splash in the Capitol as they are introduced to the nation and prepare for the games.
As an exercise in world-building, the first half of the novel is fascinating. Suzanne Collins gives us enough glimpses of the society she's created without hindering or taking away from the plot. The observations by the first-person narrator of Kat help the reader begin to slowly identify with her and offer up some criticism of the society as a whole.
It's really once the game itself begins that things take a step backward. There is some suspense to the game, the pursuit and some twists and turns along the way. But the book loses some of its early momentum when Kat is turned loose in the game. Hearing about her strategy is interesting at first but given that this is first-person narrated story there's not much question who will win the game. Thankfully Collins gives us a twist that covers this, defying reader expectations.
All of that said, I found myself wishing that this story was embraced more than a certain other series about shiny vampires. It's a better written story, better executed and shows more promise in one novel than that series has in four. It's not terribly new or ground-breaking but it's still a good story, well told."
I loved this book and yet at times I hated it. Several times it made me cry, nearly sobbing out loud. It never made me laugh and pricked me to anger often.
Kantriss lives in District Twelve, an area devoted to coal mining in what was the Appalachian Mountains of North America. Her father died working in the mines and her mother suffered severe debilitating depression after his death. That left Kantriss, at age twelve, to provide for her mother and her young sister, Prim. She sneaks out of the confines of District Twelve, underneath a tall electrified fence, to hunt and gather in the nearby woods, keeping them from starving - barely.
The Reaping, part of the Treaty of Treason, is a lottery drawn once a year in each District, where all children between the ages of 12 and 18 are required to enter their names for the Hunger Games. A boy and a girl is selected. Against all odds, Prim's name is drawn for the female tribute to the Capitol. Kantriss immediately volunteers to take her place. Peeta, the baker's son, is the other lucky winner.
They are transported immediately following the Reaping ceremony to the Capitol for a few days of training and preparation prior to the Hunger Games commencing. Twelve Districts means twenty-four competitors and the rules state only one can be the victor - and the only way to eliminate your competition is to kill them.
I wanted, most desperately, more history. I wanted to know the history of the destruction of North America; the emergence of the Panem, the Capitol, the Districts; details about the Rebellion; and, why the Treaty of Treason was necessary. No civilized society should sacrifice children simply to subjugate the rebel remnants. And not just sacrifice, but recreate a blood sport that makes the Roman Empire's gladiatorial games seem like a garden party.
The romance subplot between Kantriss and Peeta mired the the final third of the book. Kantriss' relationships with her former hunting partner Gale and the District 11 competitor, Rue, who reminded Kantriss of her younger sister, Prim, intrigued me.
I enjoyed the first two thirds of this book. The action excited and Kantriss proved intelligent, honorable and heroic. The ending disappointed and frustrated, leaving much unsaid and unanswered."
"This novel grabbed me from the beginning--I started it during my lunch break and finished it before bed (a late night, admittedly). The first person narration makes the story very immediate, and very intimate. Katliss is a superb heroine, one who draws you to her like a moth to flame (she is the girl on fire for a reason), yet she is far from an idealized girl. She is tough and vulnerable, wily because she is aware of her mortality.
The story itself is gripping, gruesome, and kind of shattering; an odd mixture of beauty contest and carnival side-show, Survivor and the Most Dangerous Game. I thought at one point that reading the story of the Games felt a little like being one of the heartless, frivolous vultures from the Capitol who feed on the misery and mayhem provided for their entertainment: what makes a great show for them makes a great story for me. (And aren't all the basic reasons they watch the Games the same as why we watch reality game shows, anyway?) I am excited for the sequel to arrive this fall, because these characters are worth following. If you buy it, it's worth the price in hardback."
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