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Post by Dante on Jul 20, 2011 2:02:34 GMT -5
I read The Hunger Games a couple of months ago, so I might flick through it again for the discussions if I'm around. (The Looking-Glass Wars would've been an interesting choice too.)
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jul 20, 2011 8:15:49 GMT -5
I also have read THG, and intend to participate in discussion. There's certainly much to say for it.
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Post by csc on Jul 21, 2011 14:02:57 GMT -5
I need to get a copy- and soon. My friend, who's a librarian, was going to lend me it, but I'll only see her in August.
Edit- Downloaded the Ebook on Amazon. I read the first two chapters today and I´m already hooked.
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Post by Songbird on Jul 25, 2011 8:53:38 GMT -5
Ok everyone remember the discussion starts tomorrow.
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Post by csc on Jul 26, 2011 15:32:35 GMT -5
So I read a lot and already finished the book (it's AMAZING) but don't worry I'll keep myself to the first 3 chapters. Edit- So, what should we discuss? Did you guys like the beggining of the book? I certainly did. I think you could really see how deep is the character Katniss and her story.
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Post by Songbird on Jul 26, 2011 22:11:28 GMT -5
What's important about Katniss and Gale's relationship?
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Post by Dante on Jul 27, 2011 2:42:39 GMT -5
Full disclosure, I've read the first two books but don't have the third yet. I just skimmed the first three chapters of THG again. I'm a little surprised at how quickly it got to the selection of the Tributes; there's barely any time out in Katniss's home turf, although of course that can be made up for in flashbacks later. Looking at how the book is structured - how long 'til the Games themselves actually begin, for instance - then it's a pretty big contrast to the second book, but that's a matter for another time, I guess. It's definitely a section dominated by Gale and Katniss; the former has a very large presence over the whole text for somebody who doesn't show up that much. I suppose what's important about their relationship is that they are equals and are honest with each other, and that's pretty rare in this book. They're both subversives with no real prospects, so maybe that's why they come alive when they're outside the system.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jul 27, 2011 7:33:35 GMT -5
What's important about Katniss and Gale's relationship? As a literary device, I think Katniss and Gale create a sort of suspense, a sense of loss before the book has barely even started. Of course, loss would have been present even if Gale wasn't; Katniss is about to be taken away from the mother she never really got along with, her sister, and everything she's ever been familiar with. But I think having the only friend with whom she was ever able to speak openly taken away heightens the emotion (as does his last unfinished words, "Katniss, I -").
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Post by csc on Jul 27, 2011 10:03:45 GMT -5
Yes, in the beggining of the book I think that Gale and Prim are te only two people she can really trust. And she can't even be so open with Prim, because of the fear she'll repeat her words. And there's also a bit of romance in the relashionship between Gale and Katniss, even though she doesn't like to admit it, or even though she doesn't feel the same way for Gale. As for what Dante said, that the reaping appens very early in the book, I agree with him, she has numerous flashbacks, during and before the Games begin, which I think contributed to her deepness as a character, we can really know what she's feeling. Oh, I'm dying to discuss the Games! I guess I'll have to wait.
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Post by Lady Whatever on Jul 27, 2011 13:20:25 GMT -5
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Post by Hermes on Jul 27, 2011 15:55:14 GMT -5
And there's also a bit of romance in the relashionship between Gale and Katniss, even though she doesn't like to admit it, or even though she doesn't feel the same way for Gale. Yes, I feel that when she says that if he wants children he can easily get a wife, she is Missing Something. I'm interested in some aspects of the world they are in. District 12 seems to be like a city, quite a small city, since a lot of the people there know each other. Yet there are just twelve districts in an area covering the whole of North America - District 12 is in Appalachia, while the Capitol is in the Rockies. One wonders what has happened to the world outside the Districts. Is anyone reminded of Theseus and the Minotaur?
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Post by csc on Jul 27, 2011 17:38:57 GMT -5
In what way would the story resemble this mith? Is it because she is thrown in the arena like Theseus entered the labyrinth? I don't follow. Also, maybe it's a small District, compared to others, or Panem doesn't occupie all the space North America once were in. Or maybe she lived in a small city in District 12.\
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Did you know TGH is going to be a movie? It's coming out next year and I found the Cast List.
Credited cast: Jennifer Lawrence Katniss Everdeen Josh Hutcherson Peeta Mellark Elizabeth Banks ... Effie Trinket Liam Hemsworth ... Gale Hawthorne Woody Harrelson ... Haymitch Abernathy Donald Sutherland ... President Snow Stanley Tucci ... Caesar Flickerman Willow Shields ... Primrose Everdeen Alexander Ludwig ... Cato Toby Jones ... Claudius Templesmith Isabelle Fuhrman ... Clove Amandla Stenberg ... Rue Jacqueline Emerson ... Foxface Lenny Kravitz ... Cinna Wes Bentley ... Seneca Crane
I hope this is too far from the thread's point but I thought it was interesting. Looking at some sctors of the cast though... I can already feel it becoming a "funny" teenager movie. Like what they did to The Lightning Thief. Although I don't know how could they possibly make the slaughter of children and adolescents funny. But other cast members show hope. And... Seneca Crane? He isn't even in this book. I only know him from the beggining of Catching Fire. I have other complaints, but I'll keep them to myself.
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Post by Songbird on Jul 27, 2011 23:31:34 GMT -5
Okay firstly this discussion is about the book, not movie so you could have posted the link to imdb instead of the entire cast list.
Anyway, does anyone else have issues with the fact that the ceremony to choose tributes is called The Reaping? Because I do.
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Post by Dante on Jul 28, 2011 1:59:29 GMT -5
I guess it's probably meant to have connotations of harvest, given the emphasis on useful work in the Districts, but it's also a thinly-disguised way of saying "We're going to kill everyone."
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jul 28, 2011 6:12:03 GMT -5
Is anyone reminded of Theseus and the Minotaur? The book is largely influenced by it, in fact. Collins said as much in an interview, but I can't find where. What are the problems with "Reaping"? I think it supplies an appropriate visual: All the contestants being gathered for the harvest, as it were.
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