Fastest Read Ever

Have you heard about these Hunger Games books? 

The premise of the book is that a bunch of teens are in a government-sanctioned "game" where they kill each other and the last one standing "WINS."

Ewww... right?

I would normally never be interested in a book like this.  Alas, people keep reading it and saying that it's soooo good.  What is wrong with these people? {{People = facebook acquaintances and random bloggers}}

Finally, I succumb to the pressure... and bought The Hunger Games.  Ahem... and I read it in one weekend.

 Then I flew through Catching Fire. 

And, now I am in Mocking Jay.

The whole back story to how all of this comes to be is fascinating.  I hung on every detail.  You should definitely read the set of books, if you have a chance to... well... at least read Hunger Games.  I'm pretty sure you haven't read anything quite like it before!

Did you read The Lottery by Shirley Jackson?  It was the first short story that I read in my high school Literature class.  The set-up to Hunger Games started like The Lottery; all of the activity about a "game" makes you think you are getting a "game" and the game is something really different.  Read The Lottery (it's free and online) and see if you see the similarities.  WARNING:  The Lottery has a rather unhappy ending which is different than The Hunger Games.  I was so shocked to be reading this in high school.  Who writes that stuff? It made such an impact on me that I never forgot it.