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Yes, I can read
May. 23rd, 2011 12:45 pmI know I post a lot about movies and television, but I actually read a book now and again. The Hunger Games was only $5 for the Kindle version, so I picked it up. I've been meaning to read it--I'm a sucker for the subject matter, being a huge fan of Battle Royale--and my latest issue of Entertainment Weekly clued me in to the fact they're making a movie. I learned years ago that reading the book before a movie comes out is always better than reading it after, so I figured I'd make the effort. What with biking to work and studying for the GRE, I don't have much free reading time handy, though.
Turns out not to have mattered. I finished the book in the wee hours of this morning. I actually had to force myself to catch up on Supernatural earlier in the evening (so I could read the internet without fears of being spoiled) when what I really wanted to do was finish The Hunger Games. It's kind of addictive reading. It might not be telling a story that I haven't encountered before, but the language and pacing are first rate. I like the heroine, as she's both special and realistically drawn. I think I have already been tainted by seeing that Jennifer Lawrence is playing Katniss because she's who I pictured. But, in a way, that helped. Winter's Bone may have been the movie that made me miserable, but the situations of the two girls in that and The Hunger Games being so similar, it blended together to make a for readily present heroine.
It will be interesting to see if, outside of the premise of the first book, the series maintains its momentum. It's so nice to have some fiction to spice up my interesting but usually drier set of non-fiction books to read.
Turns out not to have mattered. I finished the book in the wee hours of this morning. I actually had to force myself to catch up on Supernatural earlier in the evening (so I could read the internet without fears of being spoiled) when what I really wanted to do was finish The Hunger Games. It's kind of addictive reading. It might not be telling a story that I haven't encountered before, but the language and pacing are first rate. I like the heroine, as she's both special and realistically drawn. I think I have already been tainted by seeing that Jennifer Lawrence is playing Katniss because she's who I pictured. But, in a way, that helped. Winter's Bone may have been the movie that made me miserable, but the situations of the two girls in that and The Hunger Games being so similar, it blended together to make a for readily present heroine.
It will be interesting to see if, outside of the premise of the first book, the series maintains its momentum. It's so nice to have some fiction to spice up my interesting but usually drier set of non-fiction books to read.
