2011-11-15

[十三] The Hunger Games

Today I just finished reading the first book in a series, The Hunger Games.  Most people have already read it.  I'm actually surprised that I just barely started.  I finished this first book in one day.  it cost me several hours of sleep and homework time:  All well worth it.
Basically, I found this book to be nothing short of amazing.  The story was well told in an easily imaginable setting.  For me the main characters were so easy to relate to.  I was immediately attached to them.  I even cried when Rue died.  hahaha  Don't judge.
The most haunting part for me was the parts preceding the actual Hunger Games.  I couldn't help but run the characters situation through my own head and wonder about how I would deal with the situations.  I kept imagining the people I knew.  And the situations were present so strongly in my own mind that I felt the same anxiety as the characters in the book.  I remember, when I got home from school earlier, I was reaching the part in the story when each of the tributes were being interviewed the day before they were to be sent into the Arena.  As soon as I read the last line of that chapter: "It won't work for me, because she came here with me.", I literally collapsed on the couch in shock because I couldn't bear the thought.

That was probably the most poorly written response to a book that I've ever written.. but it's past midnight and I have to be at school early tomorrow..  and I still want to read more of the second book.. therefore, I don't care.

There's an insight to the dramatic me.  hahaha

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