The Hunger Games
Registered by yelling-cookie on 8/10/2009
3 journalers for this copy...
After reading the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, I looked up her favourite booklist at Amazon and found this one to be recommended. I really liked it, even when parts were unbearably cruel. You learn to appreciate your own life a lot more ;-)
This is a gripping story set in a postapocalyptic world where a replacement for the United States demands a tribute from each of its territories: two children to be used as gladiators in a televised fight to the death.Katniss, from what was once Appalachia, offers to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, she is entirely focused on survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the importance of holding on to one's humanity in such inhuman circumstances. It's a credit to Collins's skill at characterization that Katniss, like a new Theseus, is cold, calculating and still likable. She has the attributes to be a winner, where Peeta has the grace to be a good loser.
(Amazon)
This is a gripping story set in a postapocalyptic world where a replacement for the United States demands a tribute from each of its territories: two children to be used as gladiators in a televised fight to the death.Katniss, from what was once Appalachia, offers to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, she is entirely focused on survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the importance of holding on to one's humanity in such inhuman circumstances. It's a credit to Collins's skill at characterization that Katniss, like a new Theseus, is cold, calculating and still likable. She has the attributes to be a winner, where Peeta has the grace to be a good loser.
(Amazon)
Journal Entry 2 by yelling-cookie at Bus TXL in -- Bahn/Bus/Schiff --, Berlin Germany on Thursday, August 13, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (8/13/2009 UTC) at Bus TXL in -- Bahn/Bus/Schiff --, Berlin Germany
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Der Bus fuhr 18.01 Turmstraße/Beusselstraße ab mit dem Buch sicher auf dem hintersten Sitz ganz rechts
Der Bus fuhr 18.01 Turmstraße/Beusselstraße ab mit dem Buch sicher auf dem hintersten Sitz ganz rechts
Found the book in the TXL bus after a young lady apparently left it there. I never heard of bookcrossing before, but I really like the concept.
Oddly enough, I forgot my own book two days ago on the plane and did not have any good reading stuff, so this was a nice discovery (I got my book back from the lost and found at the airport, though). After the first 70 or so pages, this seems to be a quite interesting book of a genre I usually do not read.
Need to go back reading...
Oddly enough, I forgot my own book two days ago on the plane and did not have any good reading stuff, so this was a nice discovery (I got my book back from the lost and found at the airport, though). After the first 70 or so pages, this seems to be a quite interesting book of a genre I usually do not read.
Need to go back reading...
Gotten it from my colleague who found it on a bus.
Love it, bought the second one and desperately awaiting the third in this series.
Will pass it on to a friend flying across the pond.
CAUGHT IN MUNICH GERMANY
Love it, bought the second one and desperately awaiting the third in this series.
Will pass it on to a friend flying across the pond.
CAUGHT IN MUNICH GERMANY
