The Hunger Games, Book 1 Book Review

Inspired by flicking tv channels between a reality tv show and scenes from a real war-zone (edifying material), but makes you uneasy because it makes things that are so wrong feel exciting, even thrilling. It draws your attention to problematic issues in society (sponsorship means anything goes, a body beautiful culture which at the same time tolerates horrendous violence, playing up romance for a show rather than for real meaning, no respect for human dignity in itself, only for what you can do or what you look like…) but it actually makes these things too riveting, they’re the basis of what is fun in this book. It seems more a product of a disturbed society than a critique of one.