The Hunger Games

[certainthings]

Because everyone, their uncle, and their uncle's mail delivery person's spouse has read The Hunger Games, I thought that I would too.

I'm just a few chapters into the story and it's good but so far it remind me of a more elaborate and perhaps more extreme and obviously longer version of The Lottery

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[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Good. Glad, that I am not the only one. I've never heard of this Battle Royale

[slytherinblack.livejournal.com]

It's a Japanese manga, I think (or maybe an anime? one of them. I know it's Japanese media).

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

It was originally a Japanese novel by Koushun Takami. A few years after its release, the author wrote a manga based on the novel. He considers the novel to be a companion piece to the book because the book was light on character development, focusing more on the politics and violence of the situation. The manga is ALL character development. The two movies that were made are ... eh. I thought the first one was okay, but they played hell with the ending and made it ridiculous. The sequel was ... not needed. That's all I'm gonna say about that.

Sorry, it's just BR is one of my favorite books. I read it once a year. I adore the manga. And I wish everyone would read it and the novel for the full experience.