Hunger Games
Apr. 6th, 2012 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sienamysticYes, I have joined the bandwagon. Well, to clarify, I read the first book today. Tore through it, actually. It was brilliantly paced and very compelling, and the plain, straight-ahead prose was much to its credit. It's a little pocket rocket of a book, and I was happy being dragged along for the ride.
I don't know that I was avoiding the whole Hunger Games thing, exactly, just not sure if I wanted to read the books, but the movie looked interesting and, in all honestly, this heartbreaking and raw and awesome and horrible and beautiful Iron Man/Hunger Games fic by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
quigonejinn probably tipped me over the line. A coworker passed along her copy and I read it mostly over lunch, and will probably drag along the Bemo tomorrow to see the movie.
Oh, and the book also emits some sort of signaling beacon. I was chatted up by a bunch of people who saw me reading it over lunch and wanted to share how much they liked it as well. That didn't seem to happen during the Harry Potter boom, so I'm not sure if people are just more open about being fans of "kid books" or what, but I definitely heard from a few people who wanted to tell me all about how much they loved it and hoped I'd fall for it just as hard.
I don't know that I was avoiding the whole Hunger Games thing, exactly, just not sure if I wanted to read the books, but the movie looked interesting and, in all honestly, this heartbreaking and raw and awesome and horrible and beautiful Iron Man/Hunger Games fic by
quigonejinn probably tipped me over the line. A coworker passed along her copy and I read it mostly over lunch, and will probably drag along the Bemo tomorrow to see the movie. Oh, and the book also emits some sort of signaling beacon. I was chatted up by a bunch of people who saw me reading it over lunch and wanted to share how much they liked it as well. That didn't seem to happen during the Harry Potter boom, so I'm not sure if people are just more open about being fans of "kid books" or what, but I definitely heard from a few people who wanted to tell me all about how much they loved it and hoped I'd fall for it just as hard.