HUNGER GAMES (Movie)

I stopped to drop off some donations at the library and was able to score the DVD of  The Hunger Games. I watched it instead of the debate between Biden and Ryan. I don't know about the debate, but the movie was excellent. It seemed to be true to the book, as I remember it, and didn't linger over the deaths, which had concerned me.

Katniss's humanity trumped the banality of evil.

Now I need to read the rest of the trilogy! Jennifer Lawrence, Donald Sutherland, Stanley Tucci, and especially Lenny Kravitz were perfect. What a relief!

Hunger Games News 9/12/11

Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss

It's a wrap for Hunger Games, which just finished filming in the Asheville, North Carolina area. Now comes hours of editing to create the final product for all the fans waiting with baited breath to see if the vision of the movie matches their experience of the book closely enough. Already it has been said that there ARE changes but a reporter who has been tweeting from the set said that folks will probably like them. We shall see.

Suzanne Collins Has Her Say

If you aren't sure about Jennifer Lawrence (see below) playing Katniss in the Hunger Games movie, you better read what author Suzanne Collins has to say on the issue HERE.

Hunger Games News

Jennifer Lawrence

Early Word has shared the news that Jennifer Lawrence, nominated for an Oscar for Winter's Bone, has been selected to play Katniss in the Hunger Games. I don't know enough about her to comment. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Read more HERE.

The Hunger Games (2008)

I finished The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, a few miles south of St. Louis, Michigan on the way to our Holt Family Christmas in Mt. Pleasant on December 26th. I don't like to read in the car but I had to know how this first part of the trilogy would end.

Science Fiction is not generally a genre to which I am attracted; but if the category is instead Speculative Fiction, "that extrapolates from some phenomenon or theory and postulates 'What if?' ", I am often intrigued. 

Although this is considered a Young Adult novel, the ideas are compelling ranging  from the huge gap between the ruling class living in obscene wealth while the rest of the population is near starvation to the emphasis on cruel mass entertainment. At some point Katniss remarks that everyone has broken some law or other to survive. You'd have to be blind to not see parallels in our own world.

Looking for Katniss

Book One

Book Two

Book Three

I just brought Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, the first book in the trilogy, home from the library last week thinking it was about time to see what all the fuss is about. Apparently the large group of readers has now moved past books two and three and are now waiting to see who will be cast as Katniss in the movie. I have a lot of catching up to do!

Early Word (the Librarian / Publisher Connection) has posted this link about who might be in the movie. Looking for Katniss