Ha ha ha ha, I have heard about it, but I hadn't seen it.

1) The Hunger Games are some sort of game and people die, but no one will die until book two.

2) The main character will get chosen for The Hunger Games.

3) There will be people.

4) Look, I don’t know.

I was a little more spoiled than he is, but I definitely get his perspective. Heh.

It's pretty cool to read his reactions paragraph by paragraph, actually!

WHAT THE HOLY FUCK. WHAT THE FUCK. Are you serious??? This is some Battle Royale shit right here, guys. Really????

Ha ha ha ha, I love that he really, seriously, DID NOT KNOW THIS about the book.

Also, we had the same reaction to the end of chapter one.

I really, really need to know what the Games are going to be like and I need to know now and this is all my fault because I agree to read things one chapter at a time.

I don't know how he is managing to do this!! Although by doing this, he's managed to pick up on a few details here and there that I missed.

I love how surprised he is at how fucked-up everything is. Hee. I will have to keep reading his reactions, for sure.

(Unlike him, I am fine with first-person present tense and, although I don't think it's exceptional, I am fine with Collins's prose.)

OMG, I'm #62 on the library hold list for Mockingjay. I always do this -- read older books from the library and then have to buy the later ones when I can't wait!

Jesse, Amazon has all the books on sale for over half price right now. That's how I bought them. Hardcover books at paperback prices!

I, too, am reading Mark Reads, and it's hilarious! (I wonder how much more I would pick up if I actually read shit slowly instead of being all "MUST KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NOW NOW NOW"). I keep laughing at the repeated "OMG SHIT IS GETTING REAL" comments from him. He has no idea how real shit will get.

JZ followed Mark Reads all through the Harry Potter books and it's pretty fun also as he hits the big HSQ moments.

(I wonder how much more I would pick up if I actually read shit slowly instead of being all "MUST KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NOW NOW NOW").

Yeah, I can't even remember where the second book ended. I might re-read it right now.

OK, I guess I have to read it. I bought it back when, and the DH read it and very much didn't like it, so that plus me being kind of ooky on the premise meant I haven't read it yet.

I don't know how to read slowly. The SO's family were all gawking and marveling at me this holiday over how fast I read. I was all shruggy about it. "Do you...enjoy it?" "Yes, I just enjoy it faster than everybody else."

Thanks for the link to Mark Reads! I think I might enjoy reading that almost as much as I enjoyed reading the books!

DH read it and very much didn't like it, so that plus me being kind of ooky on the premise meant I haven't read it yet

I don't think the series as a whole pays off that well, but the first book in particular is written in that OMG CANNOT PUT THIS DOWN kind of way that makes for best-sellers and movie franchises. And if you read it fast enough you won't notice all the world-building problems.

The premise, though, is definitely ooky: it's a dystopia, even more so than Westerfeld's Uglies universe. Which I think is all-around a much better series, but doesn't have quite that insane narrative drive THG does.