The Hunger Games — a critique of capitalism

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I am rating all three books in the Hunger Games series equally, though the first one is a little better than two and three.

The story is worthy. It is great. The plot moves in book one. The context for the story is the struggle of teenager Katniss Everdeen to survive a brutal bloodsport.

The book was already super-popular before I read it. The Hunger Games was the first book in my nightly read to my kids series. It will always hold a special place for that reason alone.

Through the story, the entire series, I got to explain a lot about how the world works, the world of us versus them. My kids got it. They would ask me questions. The obvious connections to the kind of economic reductionism and regionalism is easy to understand–this has been called Balkanization.

I did voices, not too hard. I slurred Haymitch a bit…and often had a glass of wine with me while I read.

Before this, I had read some shorter stories, some ancient myths. I was at first worried about reading so many hundreds of pages. But in about thirty minutes a night, we got through the first book more quickly than I originally anticipated.

As soon as we were done with book one, I started book two, Catching Fire.

Not the most significant criticism, but Suzanne Collins writes with a lot of sentence fragments.

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