Just finished reading Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. My mother had been trying to convince me to read this one for a while and I finally got around to picked it up. Polished it off in three days (being unemployed helps a little with that).
Anywho, a pretty solid book and worth the read. It takes place in a future where America has long-since collapsed and the landmass is now taken up with a dozen Districts that have all been defeated and unified by one place called the Capitol. Now the people of each District are subservient to the citizens of the Capitol, each one known for its primary industry. Hunger is rampant among the Districts, and the police from the Capitol tend to be heavy-handed.
Every year for the past 74 years there have been the Hunger Games, a barbaric game where each of the dozen districts must send two children between 12 and 18, a boy and a girl, to compete against each other in a huge weeks-long deathmatch. Only one child will live. It's designed to be a constant reminder to the Districts that the Capitol has complete control over their lives.
Hunger Games is the first book in a trilogy and follows the actions of a girl who ends up going to the Hunger Games as a tribute.
It's a quick time, written to be easy to read and not overly long (I think it clocked in under 400 pages). Just finished the first book this morning and am already starting up on the second one.
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