Approaching the Hunger Games Trilogy: A Literary and Cultural Analysis (Paperback)

from LibStaff2

This is a very interesting analysis on "The Hunger Games" phenomena. Although there are a few typos, I love the sections about reality shows and the biography on Suzanne Collins. Henthorne supports his ideas and suggestions with illustrative examples from the trilogy as well as from reality. The ...

from Annesanse

As a big fan of the Hunger Games, I was so excited to get this as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewers. It was definitely interesting to read the essays and to look it at things from different perspectives and angles. This was my first time reading a book like this, and I much prefer just rea...

from TinaV95

Disclosure: I received this book free as a part of Library Thing's Early Reviewer program. "The Hunger Games" has been a best-seller phenomenon in the YA world, as well as the larger adult market for some time now. A late comer to the party, I was an immediate fan as soon as I delved into the wor...

from benuathanasia

This is a phenomenal academic look at nearly every aspect of The Hunger Games. The topics and discussion thereof helped unlock new layers of the story to me as well as reveal a great deal about Collins' writer's-craft. So many of the nuances of the book are dissected and analyzed in such a way as...

from shazzerwise

This was not the first collective cultural analysis of The Hunger Games trilogy I have read, and I doubt it will be the last. Like other volumes, this had good essays, and some not so good attempts. The exploration of THG as a digital text was interesting, and putting within the framework of fand...