ONE DIRECTION !!!
Monday, April 9, 2012
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Reading After-thoughts
The Hunger Games series
First of all, I'd like to start off by saying that I've underestimated and misjudged this wonderful series and that I'd like to say that it has earned its rightful place at the same status line as Harry Potter :)
During the time when I spent reading the books, I was being sucked into a wind whirl of human emotions, so great that I think I'll have a hard time to get out again. I was like a walking dead, where I lost the will to do even the basic stuffs and nothing matters or worths my time than the books in my hands, finger flipping one page to another, eyes, no matter how tired, looking at the words printed on the yellowish papers...
I know I should at least include a brief summary about this whole series, but I don't think I can, I'm still in a rather 'unstable' state in the time of wrtiting. But this is an after-thought, so I don't think I need to anyway.
Hunger Games books show that the cruelty and violence in the world could not just bring sadness, anger and terror, but could slowly eat people from the inside, damaging their souls...People will never be the same again. I felt like I was actually inside the book, going through everything that the main character, Katniss Everdeen is going through and accessing her feelings and thoughts in an unexpected closeness. The story is written in the first-person style, that's why and this is my first time reading a book series with a single main heronie. This is my first and it has affected me in such remarkable ways. :)
In the books, which contains the Hunger Games itself, the rebellion, the war, bring so much fear, violence, danger and terror that I had to stop myself from biting into my skin. Thousands of people are killed, either innocent or otherwise, either families, friends or enemies. And then the anger and sadness follows. The aftermath is terrible. Uncertainty and unstable. Don't know what is real or unreal anymore. The sadness of losing almost everyone you love in nearly a brink of an eye. I really did cried. Laughter and happiness are short-lived. Always on the edge. Fighting, holding on and not giving yourself up. Peace seems almost extinct. This is the whole world of The Hunger Games.
Then comes a teenage twist to the story, the relationships between Katniss, Peeta and Gale. The romance that plays out in the face of danger and terror. Trying hard to protect one another. Willing to do whatever it takes to ensure the other is alive. Romance which can make your heart ache.
The modern twist that is added to the action and adventures is what makes the story even more special. One of a kind. The individualistic of every character in the story , mostly based on their thoughts and actions, is just perfect. This kind of stuffs could make up every flaw it has.
Hunger Games is the kind of story that wraps you in a fog of emotions and makes you lost inside it and can't identify every single element. This is also a story that makes nothing else matters besides you and the books. Everything shuts out around you the moment you go it. At least I am. This makes writing a review for Hunger Games a tough job indeed.
I hereby want to thank Suzanne Collins for creating Hunger Games and bringing it to life. You have made me feel the way I have never imagined I would. Hunger Games has made me speechless and successfully trapped itself in a fog of emotions inside my head.
PS: Katniss chooses Peeta in the end, the way I kinda know she would, because if I were her, I'd be in love with Peeta too. And for the reason behind it, I'm starting to understand the thing we called LOVE. :)
First of all, I'd like to start off by saying that I've underestimated and misjudged this wonderful series and that I'd like to say that it has earned its rightful place at the same status line as Harry Potter :)
During the time when I spent reading the books, I was being sucked into a wind whirl of human emotions, so great that I think I'll have a hard time to get out again. I was like a walking dead, where I lost the will to do even the basic stuffs and nothing matters or worths my time than the books in my hands, finger flipping one page to another, eyes, no matter how tired, looking at the words printed on the yellowish papers...
I know I should at least include a brief summary about this whole series, but I don't think I can, I'm still in a rather 'unstable' state in the time of wrtiting. But this is an after-thought, so I don't think I need to anyway.
Hunger Games books show that the cruelty and violence in the world could not just bring sadness, anger and terror, but could slowly eat people from the inside, damaging their souls...People will never be the same again. I felt like I was actually inside the book, going through everything that the main character, Katniss Everdeen is going through and accessing her feelings and thoughts in an unexpected closeness. The story is written in the first-person style, that's why and this is my first time reading a book series with a single main heronie. This is my first and it has affected me in such remarkable ways. :)
In the books, which contains the Hunger Games itself, the rebellion, the war, bring so much fear, violence, danger and terror that I had to stop myself from biting into my skin. Thousands of people are killed, either innocent or otherwise, either families, friends or enemies. And then the anger and sadness follows. The aftermath is terrible. Uncertainty and unstable. Don't know what is real or unreal anymore. The sadness of losing almost everyone you love in nearly a brink of an eye. I really did cried. Laughter and happiness are short-lived. Always on the edge. Fighting, holding on and not giving yourself up. Peace seems almost extinct. This is the whole world of The Hunger Games.
Then comes a teenage twist to the story, the relationships between Katniss, Peeta and Gale. The romance that plays out in the face of danger and terror. Trying hard to protect one another. Willing to do whatever it takes to ensure the other is alive. Romance which can make your heart ache.
The modern twist that is added to the action and adventures is what makes the story even more special. One of a kind. The individualistic of every character in the story , mostly based on their thoughts and actions, is just perfect. This kind of stuffs could make up every flaw it has.
Hunger Games is the kind of story that wraps you in a fog of emotions and makes you lost inside it and can't identify every single element. This is also a story that makes nothing else matters besides you and the books. Everything shuts out around you the moment you go it. At least I am. This makes writing a review for Hunger Games a tough job indeed.
I hereby want to thank Suzanne Collins for creating Hunger Games and bringing it to life. You have made me feel the way I have never imagined I would. Hunger Games has made me speechless and successfully trapped itself in a fog of emotions inside my head.
PS: Katniss chooses Peeta in the end, the way I kinda know she would, because if I were her, I'd be in love with Peeta too. And for the reason behind it, I'm starting to understand the thing we called LOVE. :)
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