I saw The Hunger Games last weekend at the movies but have been digesting it since then before posting about it. Not because I have anything revelational to say but because I enjoyed it too much to disect it straightaway. Suzanne Collins is one of the producers so I guess it was always going to be faithful to the book. Obviously they couldn't keep in every character and every little nuance but, on the whole, they got the story in there. We don't get to know the other tributes as well, of course, and that would have been a little confusing for those who hadn't read the book, I imagine. At first, Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss seemed a little too well fed for the half starving character in the book, but that was easy to put aside as the movie progressed. The only character who didn't seem very true to the book, physically at least, was Peeta. In the book, he is tall and burly, strong as an ox, but Josh Hutcherson was simply too weedy to be convincing and that changed the dynamic between … [Read more...] about The Hunger Games – true to the book
The Hunger Games
Favourite Author No. 6 – Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins skidded onto our radar at warp speed with her The Hunger Games trilogy but she was writing even before the publication in 2008 of the first book of the series. She had already published several children's books but this was her first attempt at Young Adult and she sure hit the nail on the head. She was actually the author who turned me on to Young Adult books and I have read a whole raft of brilliant ones since then. I read the first page of The Hunger Games and was completely hooked into her world and couldn't put it down, reading it in the car on the way to work with Adriano and, dare I say, even in the toilet. I grabbed the second one, Catching Fire, and devoured it as well. Then I looked out for the last one, Mockingjay, and dove in but it felt different. Katniss was damaged, as well she should be, but it dragged me down. Where was the strong heroine who battled against all odds to win? She felt broken and I wasn't wanting to read about Katniss as a broken … [Read more...] about Favourite Author No. 6 – Suzanne Collins