THE JAMES MASON COMMUNITY BOOK CLUB discussion

Hey Folks, I hope I'm doing this right. I'm suggesting Suzanne Collins' [Book: The Hunger Games] for a buddy read. Been meaning to check this out for a while, and I'm finally getting around to it.

I have only read the first one. Not in a place where I can get the others, but will in the near future. I adored it. Would hate to see a movie ruin it but inevitable.

I haven't yet heard any plans for a movie version, but adaptations seem to pop up all over the place these days, don't they?

I just got it the other day it looks good.

The Hunger Games trilogy is the BEST! You guys will love it. They are doing a movie. Woody Harrelson has been casted to play Haymitch Abernathy.

I've read the first two. I didn't know there was a movie in the works.

I've also read the first two and loved them. The Movie should be good, due out next year - I'm looking forward to seeing Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman! Elizabeth Banks is cast as Effie Trinket. Sounds like a really good cast.

These are really great books. I'm in for a buddy read, if that's the general feeling.

I am still on the fence about the Hunger Games to read, I am currently into the Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, but if anyone cares to persuade me otherwise, I may change my mind.

Robin wrote: "I am still on the fence about the Hunger Games to read, I am currently into the Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, but if anyone cares to persuade me otherwise, I may change my mind."

Robin, it took me awhile to read the Hunger Games. I thought that the story would not appeal to me. Finally, I downloaded it on my kindle because I had to see what all the hype was about. I swear, I've never stared at my kindle for so long. I think I read all three books in something like four days. I couldn't put them down and I probably would have read them faster if it weren't for the fact that I had to take care of my kids :) Give it a try.

Sometimes real life gets in the way of our reading books. I have a fourteen year old, so I don't have to constantly be watching her. But she enjoys books, that I would not usually give a passing glance to. Her genre and mine don't mesh. Sounds like you enjoyed the books, though. I think Kindle must be the wave of the future I just like to hold my books in my hands, and being a tactile kind of person helps.

Robin, please give them a try. A friend of mine said she would never read The Hunger Games, it was a YA book. Well, she ate her words. She took a look at the first page and I couldn't get the book back out of her hands. She read the book in pretty much one day. I had to bring her the next two the next day. Give them a try.

I will see what I can do about reading it, then. Sometimes YA books are geared more for adults than Youth, just for the sheer subject matter.

These are very meaty books. There is a lot to think about. These are not *fluffy* or juvenile books.

Some of the YA books, although when I was growing up, all those many moons ago, there were no YA genre. Most of the subject matter is very adult like death, and boyfriends, of course, but way more meatier than some of these adult books we read.

These books certainly make you think - it doesn't flinch from showing a society that is very different depending on which district people live in. The priviledged against the workers. Detailing a society that can justify letting children fight to the death for their entertainment isn't exactly YA reading.

They are well worth a read.

I know, Charlotte, not exactly young teenage reading material, but then again, most teenagers are reading Twilight, New Moon, or whatever the latest books are.

But then the Twilight books were deemed to be YA. The Hunger Games is much more adult (even though it's still YA).

I think the Hunger Games trilogy is a rare read that calls out to readers of all ages. Even though the concept is brutal, I feel Suzanne Collins did a wonderful job in making sure it wasn't all blood and gore. She lets our imaginations run wild wiothout having to actually write it. I would let my daughter read this book when she is about 12 or so.

Currently reading it. :D