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@Ruth or child-based reality shows, Idol comes to mind.

by Claudia Laws 2/28/2012 6:21:09 PM
I think children need lobbyists.

by Lynn Taylor Rick 2/28/2012 6:21:19 PM
@Claudia, good point.

by ruth.moon 2/28/2012 6:21:49 PM
I think we kid ourselves in our world that this kind of stuff does not happen around us. We must remember in other countries children are sent to war at a very very young age. And they are not allowed to be children

by jen 2/28/2012 6:22:41 PM
@Lynn, all the lobbyists in Hunger Games got killed, though ... everyone who stood up for the kids, anyway.

by ruth.moon 2/28/2012 6:22:43 PM
Toddlers & Tiaras. Or whatever that show is.

by Heidi 2/28/2012 6:22:45 PM
I know it's a young-adult book, but did anyone else think the writing could have been better?

by eric.lochridge 2/28/2012 6:23:35 PM
The writing could have been better, but I thought the pacing was excellent.

by deanna.darr 2/28/2012 6:24:06 PM
@Eric, you should have read Twilight first. It would have made Hunger Games look like Pulitzer material.

by ruth.moon 2/28/2012 6:24:07 PM
@Heidi agreed there.

by jen 2/28/2012 6:24:07 PM
I'm with Ruth on that.

by Lynn Taylor Rick 2/28/2012 6:24:46 PM
This is much better than Twilight. Although I hear talk of Team Gale and Team Peeta

by deanna.darr 2/28/2012 6:24:48 PM
@eric.lochridge it keeps you reading whether it is written well or not.

by jen 2/28/2012 6:24:52 PM
@Ruth, I have been involuntarily exposed to Twilight. It's a sore subject around the house.

by eric.lochridge 2/28/2012 6:25:02 PM
@Jen - agreed.

by Claudia Laws 2/28/2012 6:25:15 PM
@jen, great point that kids go off to war in our world. It's easy to forget that when we have the cushion of a relatively safe country to live in.

by ruth.moon 2/28/2012 6:25:18 PM
Teem Effie!

by Claudia Laws 2/28/2012 6:25:21 PM
Peeta - love him, hate him, feel indifferent about him? To me he was background, except for the loaf of bread he gave Katniss. Which, to me, was the one kind thing someone had done for her in her life. To me, that one move by him as a little child, trumped any move Gale made toward her.

by Claudia Laws 2/28/2012 6:25:31 PM
@Eric, are you Team Edward or Team Jacob? :)

by Heidi 2/28/2012 6:25:36 PM
@jen, I agree. I finished the book in just a few days. I like the overall story.

by eric.lochridge 2/28/2012 6:25:44 PM
Effie reminds me of someone from Whoville. I think Peeta is stronger than we know.

by deanna.darr 2/28/2012 6:26:09 PM
@Heidi, I am a journalist and do not take sides in such matters.

by eric.lochridge 2/28/2012 6:26:14 PM
@Claudia Laws I am so torn cause I like both of them. What a tough deal for Katniss.

by jen 2/28/2012 6:27:47 PM
@Claudia, I was torn between them through the first book. No comment on later developments.

by ruth.moon 2/28/2012 6:27:49 PM
What, in our world, do you think the Capitol represents? The government, the super wealthy, the idiotic and mindless?

by Claudia Laws 2/28/2012 6:30:28 PM
Our society at large.

by Heidi 2/28/2012 6:31:07 PM
Maybe all of the above. I kept wondering which districts related to which areas of the country. Which one would we be in and what would our lives be like? Was the Capitol around Denver?

by deanna.darr 2/28/2012 6:31:28 PM
@Claudia - the people who ignore the evil under their noses. All of us, at one point or another.

by ruth.moon 2/28/2012 6:31:37 PM
@deanna, yes - Denver IS the center of the universe, after all :)

by ruth.moon 2/28/2012 6:31:59 PM
I assumed the capitol was Denver for some reason

by Claudia Laws 2/28/2012 6:32:08 PM
We would be in one of the poor districts.

by Lynn Taylor Rick 2/28/2012 6:32:19 PM
I also thought they were the people who succumbed to Groupthink.

by deanna.darr 2/28/2012 6:32:45 PM
Speaking of the quality of the writing -The character development of Prim was seriously limited. Do you think that was intentional?

by Claudia Laws 2/28/2012 6:33:37 PM
One last note from me, and keep in mind that I ended up really enjoying the books: When I first started reading this, I was a little grumpy. I really felt like the author had taken Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery' and exploited it.

by Claudia Laws 2/28/2012 6:35:28 PM
@Claudia, I also hear the book is quite similar to a Japanese book/film that was released a few years ago. Can't remember the title, though.

by ruth.moon 2/28/2012 6:36:04 PM
Any final thoughts from folks before we wrap up the live chat?

by Claudia Laws 2/28/2012 6:36:22 PM
I had a hard time telling if Prim and other underdeveloped characters were written that way intentionally. I gave the author the benefit of the doubt, assuming the important characters would be fleshed out in the sequels.

by eric.lochridge 2/28/2012 6:36:28 PM
Anyone planning to go to the movie?

by deanna.darr 2/28/2012 6:36:54 PM
Yes! I have a friend dressing up as Effie for it.

by Claudia Laws 2/28/2012 6:37:15 PM
Yes, if only to see Lenny Kravitz as Cinna.

by eric.lochridge 2/28/2012 6:37:23 PM
We have chosen our next book. The March selection is "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot. Scientists knew Lacks as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cells — taken without her knowledge — became one of the most important tools in medicine.

by deanna.darr 2/28/2012 6:38:35 PM
Thanks to everyone who participated. And if you haven't read the Henrietta Lacks book, please do. It's amazing. We'll see you next time.

by Claudia Laws 2/28/2012 6:38:59 PM

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