The Hunger Games is not my favorite YA series, that belongs to the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. The Hunger Games is probably 3rd after Artemis Fowl and then Harry Potter. As for book series with movies, I think this will be 2nd behind the Harry Potter movies. As for the Hunger Games as a whole, the only thing I didn't care for was Katniss's inner struggle of her love between Gale and Peeta. But what's a YA without some first love interests.
Like I said reviews for all three Hunger Games books have been done many times and in many languages. The Hunger Games book sold 4.3 million books in 2010 and jumped to 9.3 million in 2011. In 2012 the sales tripled and now it's listed as 29 million in the U.S. alone. The first movie in the series mad $694 million dollars, 2nd in the franchise.
Sometimes there are no comparisons between books. The audio-book for Huber Games is just over 11 hours and the movie is just over 2 hours. While the book has a lot more conversation, background and the things going through Katniss's head, the movie screams vibrant colors, future tech, and CGI. Probably the biggest difference is the muttations towards the end of the time in the arena. The movie just shows them as a canine type animal but the book has these critters as canines that resemble the other 21 dead players killed in the games. The book says that when standing on their back legs they resemble the humans, blondes being blondes and the eyes are the same, or at least Katniss questions this. There are still a lot of small changes but this movie ran pretty true with the book.
All in all, I enjoyed both the movie and the book, Rating the book 8 stars So now I move forward to the 2nd book, Catching Fire.
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