Reading, Watching, Listening To, and Just Plain Thinking About
"The Hunger Games Published on April 16, 2012 by guest author:
Tony Are  The mammoth, Titanic-like opening of the movie version
of the first installment of The Hunger Games series (in what has
now become movieland tradition, the other two books will be
coming to you as three more films) has catapulted the already
best-selling books into the Harry Potter sales stratosphere and
has got everybody in a Hunger Games frenzy. Being a guy who
pretty much always follows the crowd, I also read the books, saw
the movie, perused the articles and listened to the soundtrack
album (well, it's not exactly a soundtrack album but we'll get
to that). Will it be a passing fad? Well, maybe. If so, will it
be a passing fad with an awful lot of fascinating content? No
question.  Just like with Harry Potter, it's the books that
remain the center of this cultural phenomenon. But this trilogy
could not be more different than J.K. Rowling's seven books.
Rowling created an e