Three minutes ago, I finished reading Catching Fire, by Suzan Collins, the sequel in the Hunger Games series. I read the first book, The Hunger Games earlier in the year, and the concept of the book, the story. It just such a different take on Futuristic Earth from all the other Sci-Fi Futures you see and read. Maybe the Countries didn’t find piece… maybe technological Advancements became to over-powering. But what the books do tell us is that America is no more, who knows what happened to the rest of the world… But America, now Panem made up of a Capitol and 13 Districts, each district cut off from one another, with a specific trade… Mining, Electronics, Wood, Ocean… No communication, surrounded by fences, serving the Capitol and no chance of ever leaving with most people destined to fall into the trade of their district. Apart from 2 teenagers, taken from a Lotto in each District and forced to take part in a cruel, Animalistic like Game where they are forced to kill each other for survival, with only one person going home as the Victor of the Hunger Games.
Games designed to remind the districts of the Capitols power and how the world was before the Capitol was formed and the Districts controlled and severed from each other. Cutting off communication, ensuring no possible way for an uprising.
But enough about the backstory of The Hunger Game series. I just have to say that Catching Fire is just as good as The Hunger Games, the story stated off good, then a twist made me hate it. But at the end the twist is twisted into a way that I just can’t wait until the Third instalment of the Hunger Game series is released to see how it all pans out.
Talking about this last book made me think about all of the great books I’ve read some where. I’ve mentioned it over and over again in this blog, about how before 2009 I only ever read the Harry Potter series and books that were required in school. But something clicked, and I decided to pick up reading. I think it was a mixture of things, watching the VlogBrothers on Youtube, and other random videos of people who had challenges to read 50 books in a year, and we all know how I am with Challenges. I just have to take part! Which mixed with John Green releasing Paper Towns sent me into 2009 as year of the book. So Far this year I’ve Read.
- Paper Towns – John Green
- Looking for Alaska – John Green
- An Abundance of Katherines – John Green
- 10 things to do before I die – Daniel Erenhaft
- The Hunger Games – Suzan Collins
- Catching Fire – Suzan Collins
- The Atlantis Code – Charles Brokaw
So maybe that is no where near 50 books for the year. But its 7 more books than I read in 2008 and 2007. I have 5 More books currently waiting on my shelf to be read. I like to think that I have made a good effort into getting back into more literary forms of entertainment. Instead of just watching movies and television shows. Hell even this blog has me writing more than I used to, which come to think of it, I have done a lot more things in 2009 than I have since finishing school. I’ve taken up Photography again, I guess as soon as I finished school I went straight into full time work and from there my life just kept going. Although Im glad its changed a bit this year. While working full time still sucks, I think I’m achieving more this year outside of work than I had in the previous years.
I’ve ranted on long enough now. Catch you all later.