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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins


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Jul 22, 2010

games.GIF The Hunger Games has been recommended to me repeatedly by many of my coworkers and library patrons. Since I grew up under a totalitarian regime, I usually try to avoid reading about such regimes, because I have enough personal experience to last me a lifetime. Therefore it took me over a year and half to finally give it a try. After initial hesitancy, I quickly became addicted to the story and could not put the book down.

The story is set in the country of Panem (that covers part of the former USA) in an unspecified time in the future. The Panem is divided into 12 oppressed Districts and is