How did you get aqauinted with the book

[Shanerz]

hi guys I just wanna know what happened for you to start reading the book

[Shanerz]

I at first thought the book would be stupid and refused to read it and then I was sitting in class one day and didnt have a book and was forced to get on now I was not gonna read so I picked up a random book(the hunger games) and opened it to the first page and stared at it daydreaming I ended up reading like 7 words and got hooked and read the whole thing

[Matt]

I read the back of the book first so I kind of knew :3

[gemmawolf]

One or two girls in my year had told it me was really good, but even when reading the blurb (back of the book) I wasn't too sure. Then I went into the city with my dad and there was a two-for-three offer on at Waterstone's, and I really wanted some new books. So I got the entire series because I recalled what the others had said and it was specially noted on the shelf. I got addicted quickly.
The copy of the cover I got (I'm in the UK) was the one with Peeta through the 'HG'. I thought it was Katniss for the first couple of pages because there wasn't a description of her for a while, and I didn't have any idea if it was a feminine or masculine name (I had never heard of the katniss plant before). I also thought Gale was 40.
But I soon corrected those facts! ;D

[ali]

Well folks, its time for a....

FUNNY STORY

It all began in 2010 in Reading Club.

I KNOW I AM SUCH A NERD

When a girl called Katie began ranting about the

HUNGER GAMES

and I was like

WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?

So she showed me the book, and I thought

LOOKS WEIRD...BUT STEPHANIE MEYER LIKES IT SO I'LL GIVE IT A GO

So a few weeks later I borrowed it, sat down in bed and began to read and

THE FIRST LINE GRIPPED ME LIKE A BEAR TRAP

I wanted to

KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THE REAPING

EVERYTHING ABOUT THE LEAD CHARACTER

AND EVERYTHING ABOUT THE BOOK

So I read it, then I read the next one, then the next when it came out and now I am a

CRAZY HUNGER GAMES PREACHER

Of course nothing beats

HARRY FREAKIN POTTER

[Sam]

I was reading this really good book series (The Mortal Instruments) and I finished the first book. I told my dear mother that I wanted more books like the Mortal Instruments series and so she went to a book shop and asked the owner for a book like the MI. She came home with: THE HUNGER GAMES! It was the first book of the series. I read it and INSTANTLY got hooked. I am now SUPER addicted to the series. I worship and do LIVE RPS with my friends. I know, I a super geek but it's SO FUN, you peoples MUST try it.

[Prince Inigo]

Back in high school senior year, I got stuck in the library. Due to scheduling conflict, I got my sixth period free (as most seniors did, but I didn't) and since buses (no car at the time) didn't arrive until after school, I stayed in the library. I did my homework and would have extra time, so I would browse the bookshelves and find stuff I wanted to read.

It's kind of how I rediscovered loving to read books.

I read novels like Animal Farm, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, and The Sanctuary. (The Dark Tower also. HECK YEAH). There were others I don't remember that well.

So, it was also there that I saw Hunger Games. I believe I heard it before that moment, but I shrugged and said to myself, "Eh, why not? It sounds like Battle Royale."

I wouldn't say it's my favorite book series (it has flaws in my opinion - LIKE KATNISS), but I kind of liked it enough to check the two books that were available and read through them. ^^

And that's how I got acquainted with the book series.

[L△LIA]

I work at a school and there was a book fair. I was one of the people in charge of ushering kids around it for hours and hours and hours, so I read the back of pretty much every book they had. When I read the back of The Hunger Games, I immediately went:

AW HELLS NO YOU DIDN'T. GURLLLL, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT RIPPING OFF BATTLE ROYALE LIKE A DIRTY THIEVING MOFO UNDER MY WATCH.

-FINGERSNAPS OF RAGE-

I proceeded to mentally rant at Collins until I read the books later that day (I needed to know if my rage!impulse was justified, mang. XD Also, I had just finished reading Memoirs of a Geisha and needed a new book/wanted something I could zip through easily to unwind from Golden's GENIUS.) and realized... they're significantly different lol. I ended up liking a lot of the HG's concepts/it's world and such better than BR and thennn I ended up here.

The end. GREAT STORY, I KNOW. Pft.

[WT]

Collins' first book was on the Bluebonnet List, which is this list of books that Texas awards with... something. Y'know, I've never actually known what it was for. x'D Anyway, loads of elementary school teachers/librarians use the list, and my librarian was among them; she gave out prizes if you read ten, or all twenty, or whatever. Reading + free stuff = I'm there, so when Gregor the Overlander showed up, I read it.

I've been stalking Collins ever since. I exploded all over my poor librarian when she told me that there was going to be a second Underland Chronicles book. x'D Sadly, I was more impressed by TUC than THG. >.> But hey, it's Collins. I support. =3

[gemmawolf]

Aug 22, 2011 15:29:56 GMT -5 Prince Inigo said:

(it has flaws in my opinion - LIKE KATNISS)

Strangely enough, one of my friends and I have a few issues with Katniss aswell. (She hates her but loves the series, where as I'm like, "Meh. She only goes annoying in Mockingjay".) Nice to see a similar opinion.

Our school library hasn't been accessable since April because of Year 11 exams, but when I go back it will be free. It'll be interesting to see whether or not they have the series in. If they don't I'll suggest it (I have friends behind the desk. )

[Stare]

Well, I was walking around the library, unsure of what to check out. Even back then, I was a huge reader, and had exhausted all of my favorite topics and/or series. My librarian came up to me with an odd little book called Gregor the Overlander. To me, it didn't look very good (yes, I'll admit it, I judged a book by it's cover. Seeing Gregor standing next to some giant bug made me think that he had shrunk or something), but I decided to read it to be polite. I was instantly hooked, and read the entire series eagerly. When I finished the series, I told all my friends to read it. After a while, I decided to look up other books written by Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games popped up, and I was all like, "Oh! Another book!" I purchased it and read the entire thing within a few days. I was actually the first person to read the book in my entire school, which makes me proud, because once other people started discovering it it spread like wildfire. So... yeah. That is how I discovered The Hunger Games.

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[plantix]

I'll be honest, I thought Katniss was a boy, until I read the part that said "It's not like me and Gale had a romantic relationship." Then I started to question that either Katniss was a gay boy or a girl. Then I read the part where Prim is in Katniss' old dress and I was like "He wore a dress?!?" Then I realized he was a girl.

When I finished the book, I couldn't believe I thought Katniss was boy ._.

[SNOWFLAKES [Brik]]

Well my parents made up a list they thought I would like for christmas (because I dont even KNOW what I want.) and the Hunger Games was on the list. I thought the Idea was stupid because I didn't know enough about it. I dismissed it.

Then I went back to school and one of my boy-friends (notice the hyphen) told me all about the book and I was like "Thats freaking awesome" and then I got the book and have been obsessed with it ever since.

[glitter .]

Let me tell you a little story about a teacher at my school. She'd read books to us at the end of the day because I had her last period and as sixth graders, we were squirmy and she absolutley hated us. I remember her breaking down crying on multiple occasions. But, she did finally decide to quiet us down by reading us books. She read a mystery novel, and by the end of the year, probably the last month or so, she picked to read a book called The Hunger Games. She was a pretty slow reader, and the reading she did do was few and far between, but she would read us a chapter here and there, and me, as my little twelve year old self, was quite amused by the concept. And my moms a teacher as well, just at the kindergarden level, but she has constant access to book orders and the like. So, she lets us pick out a few books from book orders, right? I chose to get THG/Catching fire in a book order thing. I finished the two books upstairs in the computer room, where I began to look up stuff about Mockingjay. And somehow, I came here. Yeah.

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[Wolfy Molly Trigger Iggy]

saw it on a bookshelf at walmart and i needed something to read. glad i got it. (btw I agree that Harry potter rules)