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I innocuously downloaded The Hunger Games on my Kindle to read on the flight to Indiana and ended up devouring the entire trilogy in a three day span. I was skeptical about the first-person perspective at first because it requires both an endearing and engaging narrative voice to work, but I was (predictably) addicted to Katniss within pages. The first book is the strongest, and I think reading the trilogy as a continuous story without pause only magnified the problems I had with the ending of Catching Fire and last few chapters of Mockingjay. I was so bothered, in fact, that I’ve spent the last week reading countless reviews in hopes of filling the gaping void of questions left unanswered. It wasn’t just that after a thousand pages of rich character development, Katniss suddenly felt like a different person (because I understand war is relentless) but it was as if Suzanne Collins got tired of writing and instead decided to give us the plot twists and resolutions in bullet-point format. Why use first-person if we’re simply told what happens? I could forgive the throwaway explanations for the other characters, but I felt robbed of Katniss’s journey to rebirth. Of all the endings that could’ve happened, I definitely didn’t expect one that read like a Wikipedia summary complete with vague time skip and trite epilogue.

I innocuously downloaded The Hunger Games on my Kindle to read on the flight to Indiana and ended up devouring the entire trilogy in a three day span. I was skeptical about the first-person perspective at first because it requires both an endearing and engaging narrative voice to work, but I was (predictably) addicted to Katniss within pages.

The first book is the strongest, and I think reading the trilogy as a continuous story without pause only magnified the problems I had with the ending of Catching Fire and last few chapters of Mockingjay. I was so bothered, in fact, that I’ve spent the last week reading countless reviews in hopes of filling the gaping void of questions left unanswered. It wasn’t just that after a thousand pages of rich character development, Katniss suddenly felt like a different person (because I understand war is relentless) but it was as if Suzanne Collins got tired of writing and instead decided to give us the plot twists and resolutions in bullet-point format. Why use first-person if we’re simply told what happens? I could forgive the throwaway explanations for the other characters, but I felt robbed of Katniss’s journey to rebirth. Of all the endings that could’ve happened, I definitely didn’t expect one that read like a Wikipedia summary complete with vague time skip and trite epilogue.

4 months ago  6 Notes
  1. liushui said: I keep meaning to read these! But the Battle Royale connection keeps making my head spin. @_@
  2. aromatic said: Had the same experience - read it quickly expecting very little. Compelling, despite the shitty writing. Still, I’m looking forward to the movie. Bullet points = script outline?
  3. cherrylet posted this