What is the Hunger Games About?

Just read it. It's best going in with knowing the least amount possible. If you must, watch the trailer for the new movie, if you find that interesting, just read the book. It's great.

The art on the iOS game looks good. There's a few books in the series as well beyond the first one, I think one is called mockingjay or something (its blue)

That's literally all I know about it.

just the america version of battle royale

In a dystopian future, there are about 12 little districts, with 2 kids selected from each district, one boy, and one girl, to fight in a horrific game-show that all districts will end up watching. The entire thing takes place in an arena with a cornucopia thing in the center than contains some random supplies, think of it like the start of a dodgeball match and there's all those balls in the center you can get for a great advantage - but yet it's so easy to not get there in time and end up getting hit right when the match starts. In the 74th Hunger Games (the one where the book "The Hunger Games" takes place), 11 of the 24 tributes die in the first day. It's a decent story but I just couldn't get into it, had to do it for a class I'm in though. Going to see the movie when it comes out.

I'm fairly certain it's something related to Africa.

Basically, some shitty USA author read the book "Battle Royale" and realized, "Hey! I can steal almost the exact plot of this book and not many people would notice!". Go read/watch Battle Royale. The book is seriously a plagiarization of it and it disgusts me when Battle Royale is so fucking good.

Hunger Games? What is this, some Ramadan shenanigans?

What I find awe inspiring is that schools are quick to ban books such as Huckleberry Finn, Romeo & Juliet, and even Harry Potter, but they'll assign required readings like Hunger Games where kids kill each other in an arena. The US education system makes no fucking sense.

Judging by the movie trailers, it's safe to assume that the movie does no justice to Jennifer Lawrence's body.

i lost an hour of sleep today.

Watch the trailer and read the plot, if you find it interesting, you should read the books. They're really good! :)

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[name] takes place in an alternate timeline—[country] is a member region of a totalitarian state known as the [name]. Under the guise of a "study trip", a group of students from [name] High School in the fictional town of [name] are gassed on a bus. They awaken in the [name] Island School on [location], an isolated, evacuated island southwest of [location]. They learn that they have been placed in an event called the Program. Officially a military research project, it is a means of terrorizing the population, of creating such paranoia as to make organized insurgency impossible.

The Program began in [year]. According to the rules fifty third-year high school classes are selected (prior to [year], forty-seven classes were selected) annually to participate in the Program for research purposes. The students from a single class are isolated and are required to fight the other members from their class to the death. The Program ends when only one student remains, with that student being declared the winner. Their movements are tracked by metal collars, later identified as Model [name], which contain tracking and listening devices; if any student should attempt to escape the Program, or enter declared forbidden zones, a bomb will be detonated in the collar, killing the wearer. If no one dies in a 24 hour time period, there will be no winner and all collars will be detonated simultaneously.

Source: Wikipedia

Sounds like The Hunger Games? Nope, that's the plot of Battle Royale.

A friend of mine told me I should read The Hunger Games, so I read some reviews on Amazon, and decided to read Battle Royale again instead. I think I made the right choice.

I read the first book in 4 hours. It's been a while since I've read such a good book. I would definately recommend reading it.

I really enjoyed the first book, but after that its a uphill battle for me because I mostly started finding the main character annoying with her mood swings and emotions. By the middle of the third book I was done with it all lol.

It's something with a title that sounds way better than the actual content. Especially considering that, if you didn't know what it was... you could come to a lot of possible conclusions.

I'd say what it was, but lots of folks already did that.

Ripoff of battle royale, to be honest hunger games looks like utter crap, a review site compared it to twilight, so im instantly out.